CVOsc

CVOsc turns a DC-coupled USB audio interface into a portable, multichannel oscilloscope for your modular synth rig. Connect an Expert Sleepers ES-9, ES-8, or any class-compliant DC-coupled interface to your Android phone or tablet, and visualize up to sixteen simultaneous channels of Control Voltage and audio — no laptop, no patch cables to a computer.

See your patch

• Up to 16 simultaneous channels in a paged, responsive grid

• Three display modes: All (every channel), Selected (just the channels you tag), and Overlay (selected traces superimposed on a single canvas for phase and correlation work)

• Per-channel range, offset, and time base, in volts for CV and normalized units for audio

• Auto-trigger on zero crossing for rock-steady waveforms

• Auto-fit to waveform when you just want the trace centered

• Independent CV vs Audio mode per channel, with renameable identities ("VCO 1", "LFO Slow", etc.)

Listen in

• Built-in live monitor: route any input channel to any physical output of the interface

• Monitor multiple channels simultaneously, each to its own output

• Output assignments persist across sessions

• Hot-plug aware — disconnect and reconnect, and CVOsc rebinds automatically

Pro features (auto-renewing annual subscriptions, sold via Google Play)

• Tuner — pitch detection that works on both CV pitch signals and audio. See note name and cents offset live in the pane.

• Record & Playback — capture every selected channel to its own WAV file, then play recordings back through the interface. CV recordings are routed only to DC-coupled outputs; the app warns you if you try otherwise. Live monitoring and playback share the same USB pipeline, so you can play recordings while monitoring live channels at the same time.

• Saved Channel Settings — every channel comes back exactly the way you left it on the next launch.

• Presets — save and recall whole-rig configurations: channel names, signal types, all scale settings, monitor routings — under a single name.

Each subscription is independent. Restore Purchases in Settings re-entitles anything you've previously bought on this Google account. Cancel anytime in Google Play; cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period.

Hardware requirements

CVOsc requires a class-compliant USB audio interface and a USB-C OTG cable. To visualize CV signals (not just audio), the interface must be DC-coupled. Verified hardware includes the Expert Sleepers ES-9 and ES-8. A powered USB hub is recommended for tablets that don't supply enough bus power.

Privacy

Audio captured from your interface is processed on-device only and is never transmitted by CVOsc. Recordings stay in app-private storage unless you enable Android cloud backup in Settings. Anonymous analytics and crash reporting can be disabled in Settings → Privacy at any time, and are off by default for users in the EU/EEA/UK/Switzerland until you opt in.

DC Coupled Sound cards that are supported out of the box:

Expert Sleepers

- ES-9 (14 ch)

- ES-8 (8 ch)

- ES-3 (8 ch)

- ES-40 (8 ch)

Solid State Logic

- SSL 2 MKII (2 ch)

- SSL 2+ MKII (4 ch)

- SSL 12 (4 ch)

- SSL 18 (10 ch)

- SSL ALPHA 8 (8 ch)

MOTU

- M2 / M4 / M6 (2 / 4 / 6 ch)

- UltraLite-mk5 (10 ch), UltraLite AVB (8 ch)

- 624 (6 ch), 8A (8 ch), 8M (8 ch), 10pre (8 ch), 16A (16 ch), 24Ao (24 ch)

- 1248 (8 ch), 828 (8 ch), 828es (8 ch), 848 (12 ch)

RME

- Fireface UCX II (6 ch)

Universal Audio

- Apollo Twin / Twin MkII / Twin X / Twin USB / Twin X USB (4 ch)

- Apollo x4 (6 ch), x6 (8 ch), x8 (10 ch), x8p (10 ch), x16 (18 ch)

Native Instruments

- Komplete Audio 6 MK2 (4 ch)

Non-DC Coupled interfaces still work for audio I/O; they just won't pass the validator's DC-coupling check for CV playback.