Re: [LAU] OSC - where to start?

Paul Davis wrote: I wonder if it could make sense/be interesting for this community to put forward some effort in this direction. That is, discussing and then trying to agree on a standard (broad meaning intended) for audio/music-aware applications, hardware etc. that use OSC... could be 'LADOSC' :) I'm no OSC expert myself, and am grateful to the James for opening the discussion which has already given me various interesting pointers and insights. I've always been looking at OSC as better alternative to MIDI, but (partly due to usual laziness of course) have also looked at the familiarity and 'cosiness' of the good ol' MIDI standard. A first step might be to try 'porting' all standard MIDI stuff to some agreed OSC scheme, exploiting the latter's functionality. For e.g. one apparently trivial, but IMHO iportant aspect, is the fact that precision isn't limited to 127 like in MIDI. Another aspect is: apart from real-time use, how is osc 'recored'? Would a simple timestamped list of OSC messages do? What about time resolution? Is this (persistence) aspect relevant? Does it make sense to think of OSC-files similar a la MIDIfiles? Just some thoughts/ideas Lorenzo.