Personal monitoring can allow a performer with a smart phone to set their personal monitor mix for a floor wedge or inear monitoring. In Ardour 5.6 OSC commands to allow this were added.

Setup

Some setup needs to be done in the GUI mixer window before this can work.

This gives stage or studio monitoring for the performer.

The OSC commands and feedback for personal monitoring

All of the personal monitoring commands and feedback start with a /cue. It is expected that a surface used as a personal monitor control will use only /cue commands.

The send controls and feedback all have the send id (1 to n) in line as part of the OSC path. So the path for the second send would be /cue/send/fader/2 to set the level. It is considered that most surfaces used for this will only be able to handle one parameter.

Commands

/cue/connect
Returns a list of aux busses.
/cue/aux aux-number
where aux-number is an integer which is the aux bus number this surface will use.
/cue/next_aux
Sets the the aux bus to one bus higher.
/cue/previous_aux
Sets the aux to one bus lower.
/cue/connect
Returns a list of aux busses.
/cue/fader position
where position is a float for the position of the fader between 0.0 and 1.0.
/cue/mute state
where state is a float of 0.0 for mute off and 1.0 for mute on.
/cue/send/fader/id position
where position is a float for the position of the fader between 0.0 and 1.0.
/cue/send/enable/id state
where state is a float of 0.0 for disable and 1.0 for enable.

Feedback

/cue/name name
where name is a string that is the name of the currently selected aux bus.
/cue/name/id name
where name is a string that is the name of the aux bus that id belongs to.
/cue/fader position
where position is a float from 0.0 to 1.0 that shows the fader position for the selected aux bus.
/cue/mute state
where state is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that shows the state of the mute for the selected aux bus.
/cue/signal activity
where activity is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that shows audio activity for the selected aux bus.
/cue/send/name/id name
where name is a string that is the name of the channel that send id belongs to.
/cue/send/fader/id position
where position is a float from 0.0 to 1.0 that is the position for the fader for the send that id belongs to.
/cue/send/enable/id state
where state is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that is the state of the enable for the send that id belongs to.

While a fader is being adjusted, the corresponding /*/name text will give the level in db.