[OSC_dev] OSC replacement for MIDI

[Jeff Glatt]

> *not*  MIDI messages encoded as OSC messages

Right. We've already got MIDI and it's an international,
commercially successful standard. But it's long-in-the-tooth,
can no longer be practically expanded, has some problems
that musicians have been laboriously working around for
years now, and it's time to replace it. I love the idea of MIDI.
I really do. It has proven to be a wonderful compositional
tool for me. But, it's time to retire it.

It _will_ be replaced, but whether that replacement becomes
something not quite so different (like RTP-MIDI or "high
definition MIDI") or something like OSC remains to be seen.
Whether OSC fails to become that replacement (and is mostly
consigned to being a "scripting language" for Abelton products,
and some "visual gesture systems" used by colleges) will be
largely determined by whether there exists a standardized set
of OSC messages to control musical instruments. They can't
come if you don't build it.