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Kinotone Ribbons: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Kinotone Ribbons as named OSC addresses — 42 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Kinotone Ribbons
Vendor Kinotone
OSC prefix /kinotone_ribbons
Source 🎛️ Derived from an Electra One community preset
Revision per Electra preset
Upstream electra-preset
Driver file devices/kinotone/kinotone_ribbons.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/kinotone/kinotone_ribbons.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /kinotone_ribbons/hp_filter 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as kinotone_ribbons: ask “what can the Kinotone Ribbons do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (42)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/kinotone_ribbons/hp_filter 14 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/lp_filter 15 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/resonance 57 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/crinkle 24 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tape_vinyl 25 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/mix 16 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/wow_freq 18 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/wow_depth 19 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/flutter_freq 21 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/flutter_depth 20 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/dropout_freq 22 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/dropout_depth 23 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/type 59 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/amount 17 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/makeup_gain 58 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/touch_mode 30 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/touch_param_1 28 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/touch_param_2 29 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/pre_post 27 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/reverb_decay 26 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/bypass 81 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/touch_switch 80 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr1_direction 35 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr1_speed 36 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr1_volume 37 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr1_scale 38 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/track_1_live 32 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr2_direction 39 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr2_speed 40 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr2_volume 41 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr2_scale 42 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr3_direction 43 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr3_speed 44 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr3_volume 45 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr3_scale 46 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr4_direction 47 -63–64 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr4_speed 48 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr4_volume 49 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/tr4_scale 50 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/looper 82 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/clear_track 33 0–127 continuous
/kinotone_ribbons/clear_all 34 0–127 continuous

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /kinotone_ribbons/note/on <note> <velocity>, /kinotone_ribbons/cc/<number> <value>, /kinotone_ribbons/pitchbend <0-16383>, /kinotone_ribbons/program_change <n>.

Limitations

Imported from an Electra One community preset. The mapping reflects the preset author's editorial choices: parameter naming, ranges, and which params are exposed. Untested on hardware in this repo.