[linux-audio-dev] Aeolus and OSC - comments requested

[Dave Robillard]

On Fri, 2005-13-05 at 20:22 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:31:08AM +1000, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 
> > If by <channel> you mean MIDI style channel number - dear god no. :)
> > Note numbers are debatable (but frequency is better in most cases), but
> > channel numbers definitely don't belong in OSC.  Maybe an open-ended
> > string identifier (which could represent a channel, a patch, a certain
> > synth... whatever)
> > 
> > There's no need to have confusing overloading with <voice> being zero or
> > non-zero - just make different commands.  Have one note on command to
> > allocate the most appropriate voice (MIDI style), and one to start a
> > note on a specific voice.  In Om I've made seperate commands for global
> > or voice-specific controls, and it works great.
> > 
> > Ability to control individual voices specifically is one of the things I
> > love about OSC.  Death to MIDI. :)
> 
> Agreed 100% - I was not proposing an OSC format, just I a hypothetical
> variaton of MIDI that would have allowed client side voice control.
> 
> I see you consistently start all your OSC paths with /om, while SL doesn't
> do this. Any pros/cons ? It seems essential only when multicasting.

Well, for the clients it's there because there's no particular reason a
client can't be talking to numerous apps at once, so having a prefix for
each app's incoming messages is necessary.

For the engine, I didn't really have any particular reason.  I figured
maybe it would prove useful down the road to separate things.  Better
safe than sorry..

-DR-