[linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:43:31 -0600, martin rumori wrote:
> AFAIK in the beginning it was never meant as a midi replacement, but
> should -in opposite to midi- not make any assumptions on the musical
> meaning of the data being sent.  especially in the field of new music
> or sound art, MIDI is next to completely irrelevant as carrier for
> musical data (but is still used for control data like sensor stuff
> etc, since you can build such a thing with a small pic uC).
> 
> however, an "official" way of encapsulating midi in osc would maybe
> push especially some commercial developers to osc, but i guess the
> CNMAT folks don't want to have it in their official spec.

As Dave pointed out there is the 'm' type, but that doesnt fix any of
MIDIs problems, jsut a way of wrapping it in OSC.

I dont really think OSC needs to replace MIDI, if your doing 12 tone,
limited polyphony, bandwisth etc. stuff, which most people are, its fine.

- Steve