[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[Nick Rothwell]

On 21 Dec 2008, at 18:12, adrian at cnmat.berkeley.edu wrote:

> Note that at CNMAT we don't use the OSC feature of the Max 5 built-ins
> since they don't fully implement OSC fully or correctly, i.e.  
> timetags,
> bundle atomicity etc.

Sure. (As far as I know, what's there is correct, although far from  
complete.) I would certainly prefer a proper OSC stack to objects  
called udpsend/udpreceive which happen to (partially) support OSC.

> The objects also unfortunately reinforce the
> erroneous idea that OSC is bound with TCP/IP transport.

UDP/IP, presumably? But yes, people now thing UDP == OSC. This is not  
a good thing.

	-- N.


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