On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 15:33:24 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
After I started to get into a near usable state with my game
engine, which originally called as VDP-engine, now it's renamed
to Pixel Perfect ( https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/VDP-engine ),
I was thinking on creating some software synths, but I find the
conventional midi lacking in feature. After some research on
the web, I found Open Sound Control as a perfect candidate,
however it's not only lacks a standard namespace, but also
barely supported.
On the other hand, I want to code something else besides my
engine (although I think I'll publish the Extendible Bitmap (a
bitmap file format capable of storing multiple images and
animations in a single file) as a separate library), etc. I
even thinking about creating an OSC file, similar to midi files
with its own editor. Or should I write a framework instead with
nice retro aesthetics? I already wrote one for my engine, so I
can have a nice windowing framework for the engine's editor,
although it lacks functionality and uses the CPU for drawing.
The problem is that OSC is not used at all. People still use
MIDI. e.g all the master keyboards, drum pads, control surfaces,
etc. communicates in MIDI (unless this has changed since I left
in 2012).
