[OSC_dev] OSC replacement for MIDI

[Jeff Glatt]

>use OSC as a  replacement for MIDI. What is the purpose of this?

To (hopefully) do what MIDI did before OSC (and OSC has yet to do).
And that is -- to create one standardized set of messages to remotely
"play" musical devices from different manufacturers.

> why not just use MIDI?

I _do_ use MIDI, every day. I even have a long-standing website
dedicated to it.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jgglatt

Nevertheless, as much as I have found MIDI useful, that doesn't mean
it's the be-all, end-all protocol for controlling musical devices.

> MIDI and OSC are very different protocols each with
> its own strengths and weaknesses.

Well frankly, the only "strength" that MIDI has over OSC today, is that
MIDI has one standardized set of messages to remotely "play" musical
devices from different manufacturers. OSC doesn't.

But that doesn't mean that OSC has to have this "weakness" forever. The
whole point is to address this "weakness" in OSC.