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What happened to OSC?

• diskzero 5y ago
  What happened, as in why isn't OSC "MIDI 2.0"? The short story could be that the members of the MIDI Association chose to pursue their joint specification to be the next version of MIDI. The actual story will have to be answered by someone who attended all of the various meetings that have occurred over the last three decades about what the MIDI 2.0 spec will be. I was only at a few.
• romwell 5y ago
  The same thing that will happen to MIDI 2.0, I feel :D
• spacechild1 5y ago
  OSC hasn't really been designed as a replacement for MIDI, I think. It is really a generic data communication protocol. They only specified the syntax and omitted any semantics. As a consequence, each application has to specify their own OSC messages. And that's what digital mixing consoles, lighting consoles, DAWs like REAPER or computer music programs like SuperCollider do. There really is no common ground between how these applications use OSC. To make OSC a suitable replacement for MIDI, you would have to come up with a set of OSC messages everyone can agree upon. That's not likely to happen...
  • em3rgent0rdr 5y ago
    It is a shame OSC didn't specify a minimum standard set of message names to use. I'm looking up and found a proposal for a standard namespace [1] though I'm not sure that even caught on. [1] https://github.com/fabb/SynOSCopy/wiki https://github.com/fabb/SynOSCopy/wiki
    • em3rgent0rdr 5y ago
      MIDI Manufacturers Association should have come up with a standard "Official MIDI™" namespace for naming OSC messages and which works nicely with regular "MIDI" devices. Instead of trying to make their own new spec (that is unlikely to be widely adopted and which is not physically compatible with "MIDI" anyway).