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OSC (Open Sound Control) is just awesome. It's basically a lightweight protocol on top of UDP packets. It's not hard to roll your own implementation if there is

by ssfrr 2y ago

OSC (Open Sound Control) is just awesome. It's basically a lightweight protocol on top of UDP packets. It's not hard to roll your own implementation if there isn't one for your platform. It's lacking a lot of features you'd need for a scalable system, but when you just need a few systems to send realtime messages to each other, it's tough to beat. I've used it a lot for the original designed use-case (sending parameter updates between controllers and music synths), but also a bunch of other things (sending tracking information from a python computer vision script to a Unity scene).

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gsck 2y ago
Yeah really is a cool protocol. I use it with my Behringer X Touch Compact to control the grandMA3 onPC software to get physical playbacks. X Touch MIDI goes into a piece of software called open stage control https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net/ https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net/ which runs https://github.com/xxpasixx/pam-osc https://github.com/xxpasixx/pam-osc which then translates the MIDI messages to the correct OSC commands to send to grandMA3. Then on the grandMA3 side there is a lua plugin that sends OSC commands back out to open stage control to set fader positions and LED status.
_spduchamp 2y ago
I love the ease and flexibilty OSC, but like a lot of lazy artsy coders, I hard code my IPs in my microcontrollers, and bring my own wifi router so that all my stuff just works on stage, but every time I boot this stuff, it's always a bit of a gamble. Interchangeability and interoperability is just not a thing when building this way. I kinda dig this concept of O2 (https://rbdannenberg.github.io/o2/ https://rbdannenberg.github.io/o2/) layered over OSC for easy interoperability, but it also seems like a lot of work, and I'd rather spend my time making music. I'm not a fan of MIDI, but it does kind of blow my mind when things just work. Having OSC be as plug-n-play as MIDI would be awesome!

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gsck 2y ago

Yeah really is a cool protocol. I use it with my Behringer X Touch Compact to control the grandMA3 onPC software to get physical playbacks. X Touch MIDI goes into a piece of software called open stage control https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net/ https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net/ which runs https://github.com/xxpasixx/pam-osc https://github.com/xxpasixx/pam-osc which then translates the MIDI messages to the correct OSC commands to send to grandMA3. Then on the grandMA3 side there is a lua plugin that sends OSC commands back out to open stage control to set fader positions and LED status.

_spduchamp 2y ago

I love the ease and flexibilty OSC, but like a lot of lazy artsy coders, I hard code my IPs in my microcontrollers, and bring my own wifi router so that all my stuff just works on stage, but every time I boot this stuff, it's always a bit of a gamble. Interchangeability and interoperability is just not a thing when building this way. I kinda dig this concept of O2 (https://rbdannenberg.github.io/o2/ https://rbdannenberg.github.io/o2/) layered over OSC for easy interoperability, but it also seems like a lot of work, and I'd rather spend my time making music. I'm not a fan of MIDI, but it does kind of blow my mind when things just work. Having OSC be as plug-n-play as MIDI would be awesome!