4 Mar
2012
4 Mar
'12
2:38 p.m.
On 3/4/12, J. Liles <malnourite(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I personally don't think that the way notes are
encoded is the primary
limitation imposed by MIDI. A note is a frequency, an attack/decay
modulation, and a duration.
apparently you're forgetting or have not been a part of the many
debates with the music technology community about how to define "a
note". personally i'm happy with what you wrote, but i know several
people who have made cogent arguments that defining notes in terms of
frequencies completely misses one of the most musical semantics.
The way OSC is used, and in libmapper in particular,
is to say things
about the input device, not the music, which, as far as the input
device is concerned, doesn't exist.
as as receiver of OSC, i'd be entirely happy with such a standard. the
problem for users is that it leaves the mappings unspecified, and
although there are some clever solutions for this (several of them),
from a user's perspective it always adds an extra layer of complexity.
contrast with MIDI, where almost all the messages that most people
will generate have a defined meaning even from the sender's
perspective (though sure, the receiver can still map it to something
else if it wants to).