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 <p>
        Personal monitoring can allow a performer with a smart phone to set
-       their personal monitor mix for a floor wedge or inear monitoring.
+       their personal monitor mix for a floor wedge or in-ear monitoring.
        In Ardour 5.6 OSC commands to allow this were added.
 </p>
 <h3>Setup</h3>
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
                <li>
                        Connect the output of that bus to one of the audio
                        interface's playback ports that is not otherwise used. OSC
-                       will now include this bus in it's list of aux busses as it
-                       no longer has it's output connected to the Master bus.
+                       will now include this bus in its list of aux busses as it
+                       no longer has its output connected to the Master bus.
                </li>
                <li>
                        Add an aux send to each channel the performer needs to hear
@@ -46,6 +46,37 @@
        <em>/cue</em>. It is expected that a surface used as a personal
        monitor control will use only <em>/cue</em> commands.
 </p>
+<p>
+       Most phone OSC applets (TouchOSC, Control) require manual port to be set.
+       There are certainly more controls than needed. Using send enables for
+       example, may lead to wasted time discovering why a send has no sound.
+       A good easy to use controller that fits on most phones while still
+       being controllable even with big fingers might look like:
+</p>
+<table>
+ <tr>
+  <td>
+       <figure>
+       <img alt="TouchOSC Screenshot"
+       src="/images/osc-cue-touchosc.jpg">
+    <figcaption>Personal Monitor controller using TouchOSC</figcaption>
+       </figure>
+  </td>
+  <td>
+       <figure>
+       <img alt="Control Screenshot"
+       src="/images/osc-cue-control.jpg">
+    <figcaption>Personal Monitor controller using Control</figcaption>
+       </figure>
+  </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+       Ardour is not limited to talking to one personal monitor controller
+       at a time, but is able to deal with many simultaneously, each controlling
+       its own Aux bus.
+</p>
 <p class="note">
        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
@@ -55,19 +86,20 @@
 <h4>Commands</h4>
 <table class="dl">
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/connect</kbd></th>
-  <td>Returns a list of aux busses.</td></tr>
+  <td>Returns a list of aux busses and connects to the first.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/aux <em>aux-number</em></kbd></th>
-  <td>where <em>aux-number</em> is an integer which is the aux bus
+  <td>where <em>aux-number</em> is an integer or float which is the aux bus
   number this surface will use.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/next_aux</kbd></th>
   <td>Sets the the aux bus to one bus higher.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/previous_aux</kbd></th>
-  <td>Sets the aux to one bus lower.</td></tr>
+  <td>Sets the aux to one bus lower. This can also be used as a "connect"
+  button to save space in a phone layout.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/fader <em>position</em></kbd></th>
   <td>where <em>position</em> is a float for the position of the fader
   between 0.0 and 1.0.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/mute <em>state</em></kbd></th>
-  <td>where <em>state</em> is a float of 0.0 for mute off and 1.0 for mute on.</td></tr>
+  <td>where <em>state</em> is a float of 0.0 for mute off and 1.0 for the Aux bus mute on.</td></tr>
   <tr><th><kbd class="osc">/cue/send/fader/<em>id</em> <em>position</em></kbd></th>
   <td>where <em>position</em> is a float for the position of the fader
   between 0.0 and 1.0.</td></tr>