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KORG phase8: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The KORG phase8 as named OSC addresses — 22 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device KORG phase8
Vendor KORG
OSC prefix /phase8
Source 📦 Derived from MIDI Guide (community CC/NRPN data)
Firmware unknown
Revision per pencilresearch canonical CSV
Upstream pencilresearch
Data licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 — MIDI Guide (https://midi.guide) by Pencil Research and contributors
Driver file devices/korg/phase8.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.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/korg/phase8.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /phase8/velocity/1 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as phase8: ask “what can the KORG phase8 do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (22)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/phase8/velocity/1 12 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/2 13 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/3 14 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/4 15 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/5 16 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/6 17 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/7 18 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/velocity/8 19 0–127 continuous Velocity
/phase8/envelope/1 20 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/2 21 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/3 22 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/4 23 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/5 24 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/6 25 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/7 26 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/envelope/8 27 0–127 continuous Envelope
/phase8/modulation/depth 28 0–127 continuous Modulation
/phase8/modulation/rate 29 0–127 continuous Modulation
/phase8/modulation/air 30 0–127 continuous Modulation
/phase8/modulation/tempo 31 0–127 continuous Modulation
/phase8/modulation/shift 90 0–127 continuous Modulation
/phase8/modulation/mod_type 92 0–127 continuous Modulation

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /phase8/note/on <note> <velocity>, /phase8/cc/<number> <value>, /phase8/pitchbend <0-16383>, /phase8/program_change <n>.

Limitations

CC/NRPN only. SysEx (preset management, display control, bulk dump/load, vendor-proprietary opcodes) is NOT covered by pencilresearch. To extend this device with SysEx, sniff the vendor editor, add `sysex.header/footer` + `commands` blocks, and use `update_device.md` PR template.