Re: Open Sound control?

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-08-13 06:52, bb wrote:
> 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?

OSC replaces one particular use of MIDI, which is for real-time 
communication between software or hardware devices. OSC is much more 
general than MIDI, making few assumptions about the kind of musical 
content being conveyed, and pretty much every application of OSC uses 
its own sub-protocol. For example, here is the command reference for 
scsynth, an app that makes heavy use of OSC: 
http://doc.sccode.org/Reference/Server-Command-Reference.html Any app 
that wants to talk to scsynth will have to know these commands.

OSC has found use in music notation -- INScore (for animated/interactive 
scores) and IanniX (an OSC sequencer that acts as its own kind of 
graphic score). But these apps are nothing like LilyPond.

SuperCollider has an "OSC Score" format which encodes a bunch of timed 
OSC messages. I'm not sure how standardized it is, but it's as close as 
OSC gets to the MIDI file. Again, the process of reading and writing 
these scores requires some agreed-upon sub-protocol suited to your 
specific application.

It's a cool protocol, and very much alive. But it's not very useful to 
LilyPond.


Nathan