[LAU] control surface design - was - Jack transport

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> Concidering OSC has been around for 12 years(v1.0, 17 years since first 
> implementation), it may have already. The specification is the most 
> non-specific thing I have ever seen. From the home page it seems to have 
> not moved at all from 2009 (waiting for funding so 1.1 can be released). 
> It would seem almost the same thing could be done with an ssh session 
> using arbitrary strings.

Wow! I hadn't realised it had been around for so long.

In these posts, you described my own concerns pretty accurately. It could
easily become a nightmare of incompatibility. If various bits of kit want to
talk to each other, don't  they all need a translation layer with separate
lists for every device they know about?

Also, while I can see that OSC fits very well for setup messages and general
housekeeping, I wonder at the overhead incurred for time-critical messages.

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