25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
5:54 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:38 -0700, lazzaro wrote:
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Dave Robillard
<drobilla(a)connect.carleton.ca> wrote:
True.
I'm sure we'll have a note standard for OSC as soon as there's a need
for one, but (unfortunately) right now there isn't. There aren't really
any devices/apps to send those notes anyway (though a few things I'm
working on ATM will likely require one).
You still need the service discovery etc. to get that prefix path though
(which is basically the vastly superior OSC equivalent to MIDI's
channels) - it's a bit more complicated than MIDI by nature, but not
terribly so.
-DR-
But you don't "just get plug and
play" with MIDI. It's all about
learning with MIDI.
"Common things should be easy, and unusual things
should be possible". The common things in MIDI are
plug-and-play. Only the "unusual things" are "all about
learning".
NoteOn and NoteOff, sustain pedal, volume control,
stereo pan, pitch-bend, mod-wheel ... these are all
plug-and-play, and have been since the earliest days of MIDI.
Manufacturers who make controllers know to send out these
commands in a stylized way, and sound designers who write
patches for synths (soft and hard) know to make their synths
respond in an appropriate way to these controllers. And for
a lot musicians, this is enough for them to do what they want
to do. This is the MIDI world Garageband lives in, for example,
and the biggest problem Apple has with Garageband is that
it is an entry-level program that makes most of its users so happy
that they aren't interested in upgrading to semi-pro software.