11 Apr
2007
11 Apr
'07
8:35 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 01:03 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
My question is: should I use MIDI or OSC as the
control interface? OSC seems
a lot more flexible, and more modern, and I've already found a few things that
would be much cleaner in OSC. But I'm worried about latency in going from MIDI
to OSC, or any other gotchas that might be awaiting. Then again, this is 2007,
and byte-oriented protocols are so 1980's, and maybe I'm over-worrying this.
But, surveying the Linux softsynth landscape, I see OM/Ingen and LinuxSampler
and maybe a few others using OSC as their control interface, and everything
else using MIDI. And I have to wonder if there's a reason for that other than
just history.
Ingen uses MIDI _and_ OSC. I don't know of any sequencers or hardware
interfaces that send OSC for note control, so if you want people to be
able to play the synth without too much trouble you probably want to
support MIDI. Also, are there any realtime safe, sample synchronous IPC
routing systems for OSC?
--ll