[OSC_dev] OSC replacement for MIDI

[Jamie Bullock]

Hi Jeff,

On 30 Jan 2009, at 17:28, Jeff Glatt wrote:

>> 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.

Sorry, I didn't read your proposal properly. You're doing an OSC-based  
equivalent to MIDI, i.e. a note-domain address space for OSC and *not*  
MIDI messages encoded as OSC messages, which is what my DX7 namespace  
was all about.

I agree there's a need for what you're doing -- I wonder if anyone  
else has looked at it. Jamoma?

Jamie