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Modal Electronics Craft: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Modal Electronics Craft as named OSC addresses — 49 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Modal Electronics Craft
Vendor Modal Electronics
OSC prefix /craft
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/modal-electronics/craft.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/modal-electronics/craft.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /craft/general/modulation_wheel 63

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

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (49)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/craft/general/modulation_wheel 1 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/glide 5 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/headphone_volume 7 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/expression_pedal 11 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/morph 33 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/octave 40 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/osc_mod_mode 41 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/delay_midi_sync 55 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/arp_status 58 0–127 continuous General
/craft/general/sustain_pedal 64 0–127 continuous General
/craft/vco/osc1_wave 16 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/osc2_wave 17 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/osc_mix 18 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/osc_mod_amount 19 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/spread 20 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/osc2_coarse_detune 30 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vco/osc2_fine_detune 31 0–127 continuous VCO
/craft/vca/aeg_attack 26 0–127 continuous VCA
/craft/vca/aeg_decay 27 0–127 continuous VCA
/craft/vca/aeg_sustain 28 0–127 continuous VCA
/craft/vca/aeg_release 29 0–127 continuous VCA
/craft/vca/aeg_amount 51 0–127 continuous VCA
/craft/vcf/cutoff 34 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/resonance 35 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/feg_attack 22 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/feg_decay 23 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/feg_sustain 24 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/feg_release 25 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/vcf/feg_amount 32 0–127 continuous VCF
/craft/fx/distortion 12 0–127 continuous FX
/craft/fx/delay 13 0–127 continuous FX
/craft/fx/delay_time 14 0–127 continuous FX
/craft/fx/delay_feedback 15 0–127 continuous FX
/craft/lfo/lfo1_unsynced_rate 36 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo1_synced_rate 36 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo1_depth 37 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo1_shape 39 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_unsynced_rate 47 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_synced_rate 47 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_depth 48 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_shape 50 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo1_midi_sync 52 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_midi_sync 54 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo1_mode 56 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/lfo/lfo2_mode 57 0–127 continuous LFO
/craft/mod/meg_attack 43 0–127 continuous Mod
/craft/mod/meg_decay 44 0–127 continuous Mod
/craft/mod/meg_sustain 45 0–127 continuous Mod
/craft/mod/meg_release 46 0–127 continuous Mod

Performance MIDI

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