<div>The short answer is external devices, other computers, max/pd patches, processing sketches...<br></div><div><br></div><div>The long answer is that it's a chicken and egg problem. Plugin and instrument developers don't make OSC compatible software because there is no "industry standard" way to use it in a DAW. DAW makers don't put it in because no software uses it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A good point is that an OSC -> MIDI translation layer would be necessary to drive any currently available software. Mapping an OSC address /foo/bar/baz that sends 0.0-1.0 into a MIDI CC 0-127 wouldn't be too hard, but the point is to do that conversion after the recording, not before.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My initial motivation here is coming from the monome community. There's currently no way to record the OSC straight from the device, so an OSC sequencer in Ardour (or elsewhere) would allow you to record performances in OSC and drive the monome apps directly. Most of these apps are max patches, but there are a reasonable number of pd patches as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Jamburglar project by Altitude Sickness is a particular case where an OSC timeline would have been extremely helpful, since he was using monome OSC messages to drive both the sampling engine, and a processing sketch to create an a/v experience.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://jamburglar.org/about.html">http://jamburglar.org/about.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Evan Laforge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qdunkan@gmail.com">qdunkan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM, kevin <<a href="mailto:vacillates@gmail.com">vacillates@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> As would (and this isnt' really linux specific, but it'd be cool if it<br>
> happened on linux first) an OSC sequencer / timeline editor. Bonus points<br>
> for doing it inside of Ardour, but mega, mega praise for getting it up and<br>
> running at all.<br>
<br>
</div>Out of curiosity, what would you be driving with this, and what format<br>
would the OSC msgs be in?<br>
<br>
I've thought of doing such a thing, but haven't done more than think<br>
because there are no instruments to drive. And as long as there are<br>
no actual synthesizers out there, I might be better served by a high<br>
speed high resolution extension of MIDI since as far as I know there's<br>
no agreed on standard for OSC formats, but as long as there's nothing<br>
to drive it's all just dreaming anyway.<br>
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