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I think the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol addresses some of the issues with MIDI 1.0, like higher resolution values, tunings beyond 12-tone equal temperamen

I think the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol addresses some of the issues with MIDI 1.0, like higher resolution values, tunings beyond 12-tone equal temperament, etc., without the complexity of MIDI 2.0. > OSC's main features, compared to MIDI, include: > Open-ended, dynamic, URI-style symbolic naming scheme > Symbolic and high-resolution numeric data > Pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message > High resolution time tags > "Bundles" of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control

hules 4y ago
OSC is just a way of packaging messages with an optional timestamp, despite its name, nothing in OSC is specialized for audio applications. There is no pre-defined convention for "Note-On" messages, "Note-Off", "Sustain Pedal" etc... If someone had taken the time to define these messages maybe it could have been a replacement candidate, but without this it offers nothing more than json. Also OSC is typically transported on UDP messages (because it is easy to do), but that's a terrible transport since it is unreliable, and messages larger that some OS and network dependent size are just discarded, so you can only use it reliably for message bundles smaller than a few hundred bytes.