[linux-audio-dev] Re: OSC vs MIDI

[Artem Baguinski]

Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100, Steve Harris wrote
> 
>>On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:48:46PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>>>BTW, if you have reasonable OSC covereage I'd be very interested in
>>>>compatibility tests between whatever you're using and liblo.
>>>
>>>Very early days, I've only implemented simple messages so far - but I'm using
>>>liblo for my server and some python I've nicked for the client
>>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pure-data/supercollider/python/OSC.py
>>>Seems flawless so far though, and liblo's got a nice clean api.
>>
>>Ah, OK. Well thats one more test, I tested liblo against the 
>>original C implementaion when I started it, and after that against 
>>itsself, but I get nervous about self tested software. I was never 
>>sure the old C library was doing what its supposed to though,
>> couldn't get it to build on a modern machine, and the only binaries 
>>I had were 4 or 5 years old :)
> 
> 
> Well, everyone seems to be using liblo :)

i used libOMC [which is the old library "upgraded" to be buildable 
again] in RunMotherfuckerRun player (http://www.artm.org/). it's 
available here: http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/OpenSoundControl

it wasn't maintained since around piksel gathering (nov 2003)... oh, and 
i'm afraid i have fixed some bugs on artist's offline machine and never 
brought the sources back to piksel site. the fixes made it compatible 
with Max/MSP's OSC objects (half of the installation is a max patch 
running on a mac). if Steve's interested i could find it.

i believe veejay uses it's own OSC implementation (probably based on the 
same old implementation but i'm not sure). you could use it to test liblo.

we are considering to start using liblo as "piksel-approved" osc 
implementation instead of libOMC.

and afaik there are OSC objects for PureData. i was testing earlier 
versions of RmR with PureData coz i don't have a Mac myself. So it was 
compatible with those as well.

finally, some of our (http://lab.v2.nl/) artistic hardware speaks OSC 
over bluetooth, but it's irrelevant coz there's always only one last 
prototype ;-)