[LAD] XOSC - osc patchbay

[Nikita Zlobin]

> Hiho,
> 
> here's a first preview of XOSC, an OSC patchbay (partly coded during
> the LAC ;) ).
> 
> What it does:
> 
> Connect different OSC capable programs, considering the situation where
> you have two programs talking via OSC, but then want to have a third or
> fourth application to also use OSC from those same applications without
> having to rewrite code.
> 
> Solution:
> Just change the OSC messages' target host/port to XOSC's port, and
> XOSC will allow you to patch OSC between applications.
> 
> - XOSC does not require any changes to original software to use it
> - XOSC has an OSC interface to create connections.
> 
> Find it at:
> https://github.com/sensestage/xosc
> 
> 
> Basic functionality works as far as I have tested (with the included
> supercollider script).
> 
> The program runs as a command line application and has an OSC
> interface. By registering to it as a watcher another program will
> receive any updates to connection changes, e.g. to display this in a
> GUI.
> 
> I'd be happy if someone feels like implementing such a GUI. (I imagine
> some of the classes can be reused for this purpose, and there is a
> libxosc to link to)... think of an extra tab in QJackCtl (Rui will
> be happy with a patch ;) ), Patchage, or others...
> 
> * Caveats:
> Currently clients and hosts are kept in memory based on their port
> number, so possibly there are conflicts when mapping between different
> hosts. Similarly multiple programs sending the same tags might provide
> problems.
> 
> 
> Happy about feedback, suggestions, bug reports (use the issue tracker),
> and patches :)
> 
> sincerely,
> Marije Baalman
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Awesome! It was so waited yet two or more years ago, but then i completely 
forgot about osc, dealing with it only as way for server-client communication 
for tools like ingen and non-session-manager :) (though first usually was used 
in both-in-one mode).