[Ardour-Dev] Thoughts on OSC in Ardour

[Paul Davis]

There is a standard for querying, and liblo, which ardour uses, supports it.

It isn't powerful enough to do full discovery of the OSC command set
of an OSC receiver.

On 8/21/15, Maurizio Berti <maurizio.berti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guy.
> As I have understood, that's the power (and weakness) of OSC is that it
> doesn't put a standard for anything.
> It's some sort of XML, it just gives you the means, doesn't tell you how to
> use them.
> Maybe a good idea would be to have a generic "base-query" for clients, that
> can receive a list of capabilities and how to handle them, a sort of OSC
> TOC.
> It would be a little bit complex in the beginning, but once the main idea
> is done, every OSC "maker" will be able to use its set of commands and
> queries, without the need to release every single aspect to the OSC clients
> programmers, that won't be forced to add every single compatibility
> interface for every device they have around.
> What do you think?
>
> 2015-08-20 19:38 GMT+02:00 Guy Sherman <guy at guysherman.com>:
>
>> Hi Maurizio,
>>
>> I'll have a read of that. The big problem with OSC seems to be that there
>> is no standard for querying, and none of the proposals that have been put
>> forward have really had widespread support or effort put behind them, so
>> they all seem to fizzle - whatever the solution, the challenge will be
>> adoption.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Guy.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Maurizio Berti
>> <maurizio.berti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> as mentioned by Robin and Tom on #ardour, I made a little proposal for a
>> more comprehensive support of OSC about a year ago, with some help and
>> considerations from Tom himself.
>> It's not completely related to what you are talking about in this thread,
>> since my proposal was more user-need-related than hardware specific,
>> nonetheless it can be useful to join the efforts of both programmers and
>> needs of "simple" users like me.
>> The proposal can be found here:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AIjbIEGwYAdZriugYN-PUgfdR4jhroi8uPye9kscak0/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> MaurizioB
>>
>>
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