[linux-audio-dev] OSC for GUI-Engine communication

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> I heard that mentioned on the list, but without a link to the code.  I
> was interested in it for artistic reasons, but now technical as well..
> where's that code?
> 
> I've been thinking about the MIDI->OSC part quite a bit, whether to have
> the engine support MIDI, or do an out-of-process MIDI->OSC mapping.  I
> figure a MIDI->OSC control mapper would be a pretty useful thing to have
> around for numerous reasons other than this project alone.. but then
> voice allocation (for polyphonic synths) would be in that app, which
> is.. sketchy

There are two things that might be interesting - the Occam format:
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~c.ramakr/illposed/occam.html and the fact that
you can send MIDI packets over OSC, using the 'm' type - DSSI uses
this for sending MIDI messages to synths.

- Steve