[OSC_dev] Keyboard Controller Keys vs Voices (Joseph Malloch)

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:07 AM,  <werteplus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As an aside, I find there is a weird obsession with MIDI-style control
>> in this discussion - everyone keeps talking about "keys" and
>> "velocity" etc. As a contrary example, many of the "source devices" we
>> use with the mapping tools (gestural controllers in this case) are
>> capable of sending 50-100 parameters *at the same time*, many of which
>> are continuous. I think creating genuinely useful tools for OSC
>> mapping requires thinking outside the MIDI-box :)
>>
>> Joseph Malloch
>> Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory
>> Schulich School of Music - McGill University
>> email: joseph.malloch at mcgill.ca
>> web: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~mallochj
>
> yes, i'm obsessed with midi. or better said: i'm obsessed of thinking how
> osc could replace midi completely.
>
> with midi gear, you go in a shop, buy a synth & a controller, connect them
> and play. ha! now do that with osc.
> how should companies ever produce gear with only osc support when they know
> there's no minimum standard interface they can use and the end user will
> need a 100+ pages user manual how to set up his gear to work as expected.
>
> a "note on/off" message would be such a minimum requirement among some other
> things, at least in my opinion.
>
> there's where device classes (+ version numbers) with according standard
> name spaces; (or a class for a group of parameters) would get handy. the
> controller sees the destiny and its class and says "hey, i know how to talk
> to you" and then it autolinks all/some of its parameters to that destiny.
> when there's only one fitting destiny, it could get mapped instantly and
> when there are more, it could ask the user (or use the history of its last
> connection).
>
> i don't want to limit the possibilities of osc either, and those device
> classes could just be an addition. a destiny could also have several classes
> + some unclassified parameters.
>
> maybe it's too early.

I was going to point out that there is information on the OSC web site
about wrapping MIDI inside OSC, but I just checked it to discover that
2 of the 3 links on that page are broken and the third is re-directed
and seems to contain little information about MIDI->OSC as advertised:

http://opensoundcontrol.org/wrapping-other-protocols-inside-osc


Steve