Re: Open Sound control?

[David Kastrup]

bb <address@hidden> writes:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control
> is sayed to replace MIDI. Is this something usefull for lilypond? Can
> one save osc files like MIDI files?

The "home page" of the project lists a number of quite minor programs
(or generic libraries and some very limited hardware) supporting OSC.
It has been updated last in 2004.  The link on the "home page" to the
"developer list" is dead.

Searching independently, one finds the forums on
<http://opensoundcontrol.org/forum>.  The last messages on those forums
(including the official developer list) have been 5 years ago.

It's not like there is a whole lot of traffic/development on the
respective Midi association pages either but that's not exactly because
Midi would have become irrelevant.

Now there are a whole lot more Midi transports than there were
historically: Midi over USB likely being the most important one.

It's sort of ironic that the most important transport in the studio
remains the 31250 bps current loop over DIN connectors and optocouplers,
possibly because it keeps ground loops at bay.  Meaning that the
associated latencies still are relevant.

Independent from the question of transports, of course, is that of file
formats.  There are a few that also allow using sound fonts and others,
but SMF (Standard Midi File format, containing more info than the Midi
messages passed on wire as well as timing information) remains the most
important one, usually with .mid or .midi file extension which is not
exactly correct.

-- 
David Kastrup