On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, James Morris <jwm.art.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quite a lot of different replies. But which would be the best place to > start for someone who doesn't know any of python, supercollider, > csound, chuck, algoscore, etc etc? > > Why is OSC support not more widespread? because there are almost no standards for OSC. this is not a protocol like MIDI that defines semantics. there is no standard way, for example, to tell an "OSC supporting app" to "start playing". an OSC sender has to know a lot about the OSC receiver. this severely limits OSC's usefulness (but does not make it zero by any means). > For instance, could/should there be an OSC tab in QjackCTL? could there be? if someone added OSC port support to JACK (which is relatively easy to do), sure. > Should we not be able to create tracks in > muse/qtractor/seq24/rosegarden that output to OSC to provide all the > advantages OSC gives over MIDI? ardour4 will support this. for whatever that's worth. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user