For your studio, your stream, your room · macOS
Take command of your studio.
UA Console. OBS. Hue. Under your fingers.
Twist Commando turns a Midi Fighter Twister (or another MIDI controller) into a hands-on surface for the software you create with. Ride a UA Console send, start recording in OBS, set the mood with your Hue lights, and see every move on screen. The rest of your Mac comes along for the ride.
Free · macOS 14.4 or later · Early release: feedback welcome
Section 1 — Briefing
Three orders. That’s the drill.
Give each knob a job.
Pick what a knob controls from the menu bar window: a Console channel, an OBS scene, a light. Four banks on every controller, each knob with an optional Shift layer.
Turn it. Press it.
Turning adjusts, pressing toggles: mute, play, lights on. Hold, double-press or push-and-turn to do something else entirely.
The rings report back.
Rings and switch colors follow every value, even when you change it on screen or in another app. The Twister is never out of step.
Section 2 — Creative kit
Built for the software you make things with.
Your Apollo, hands on.
Faders, sends, pan, preamp gain and plugin settings to turn; mute, solo and more to press. No MIDI setup: it talks to UAD Console directly, and the rings follow every change you make there. Auto Map fills a bank with your whole mix in one go.
Run the show without the mouse.
Mic and desktop volumes on knobs, mutes on presses, streaming and recording on a button that lights while you're live. Switch scenes from a scene wheel, or map your scenes across pads. Filters and sources too.
Light the room like a mix.
Brightness, color, saturation and temperature for every light and room, on/off on a press. Auto Map gives each light its own column of knobs. Change them in the Hue app and the knobs follow within a second.
See every move.
An on-screen indicator, like the system volume display, says what you just turned and where it landed: “DJ Mixer · AUX 1, −6.2 dB”. It never takes a click, and it can sit in the menu bar instead.
Levels where your hands are.
UA Console channels, OBS inputs, Spotify and Music show their levels on the rings in the meter view, and on the Komplete Kontrol's screens.
Snap back to a setup.
Save a scene of your knobs, then restore it: rings, switches and, if you like, the levels and lights themselves. Recall one from a press or a wheel.
Live, by name.
Twist Commando's own control surface script puts the selected device on your knobs, by name and a page at a time, and Live's box of eight tracks, following the track you select, with volumes, pans, sends and mutes lit in each track's color. Auto Map lays out a mixer or a device in one click.
Faders that talk back.
Logic's tracks through Mackie Control, with up to three extenders: faders on Logic's own curve, pan, mute, solo, arm and select, names and meters, and the Mackie display on screen. Or set up eight Smart Controls in one click.
One controller, many jobs.
Save what every control does as a setup (Studio, Live, Lights) and switch from a press, a wheel, or automatically while an app runs: open Live and the Twister becomes your Live mixer; quit it and it's back.
Your controller on any screen.
An iPad beside your Twister shows it live, as it looks: names, rings, values and meters. Tap to press, drag to turn, or tap Edit to rename a control. Stack two controllers side by side, fill the screen, add a Meter Bridge of every level, or an OBS overlay for your stream.
No hardware? Use the screen.
A controller of its own in any browser: eight faders and eight pads a bank, for anything Twist Commando controls. A phone on the desk becomes a Hue dimmer and an OBS scene switcher.
Pass on a setup.
Export a controller, or a controller with everything its controls do, as one file. Room and scene names can go out generic, and on import your own Hue lights take their places.
Section 3 — Standard issue
And the rest of your Mac, on the same knobs.
- System volume and mute, for whichever output is on
- Spotify and Apple Music: volume, play and pause
- Wheels: your apps, audio outputs, running apps or ⌘-Tab
- Apple Shortcuts and shell commands, over ssh too
- Keyboard shortcuts and media keys, for any app
- MIDI Out to anything with MIDI Learn: rekordbox, Ableton, Resolume
Section 4 — Target list
Every target. Any knob.
Section 5 — The Wheel
Turn. Pause. Done.
A Wheel knob opens a radial menu in the middle of your screen, like a game’s weapon wheel. Turn to an item and stop: it’s chosen. Or hold, turn and let go.
Load it with apps, shortcuts, key presses, commands or audio outputs, your OBS scenes, or the apps you have open, with Show, Hide and Quit a press away.
Section 6 — Controllers