[OSC_dev] cnmat max objects for osc

[Torsten Anders]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Andy W. Schmeder wrote:
> However, the "built-in" handling of OSC in MaxMSP is woefully  
> incomplete. [...] It does not deal with OSC bundles. [...] most of  
> the rest of the world doesn't (yet) realize the value of time- 
> semantics so they don't care about bundles.

I assume the problem sits a bit deeper: Max itself has no real notion  
of explicit timing and has also very limited support for composite  
data structures. Time is pretty much either "now" or less relevant (I  
am exaggerating, but this is the tendency). I find this fact  
particularly strange for a realtime music system, but it appears very  
many people are quite happy with this limitation. Other systems with  
an OSC interface do not have this limitation, e.g., scheduling the SC  
server works nice with timetags, and so SC does of course support them.

Once you have a scheduler in Max which you can tell to process things  
at a certain time in future I guess you will also soon have support  
for timetags and bundles for OSC :)

Best
Torsten