On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:20 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: > On 03/03/2012 08:25 PM, David Robillard wrote: > > Sure, you could just implement dumb raw OSC recording and playback, but > > there's little point in using a DAW for that (not to mention little > > practical musical use) > > But that's exactly what I want. For starters, even just simple messages > consisting of address and POD (like a double value) would be useful. The > data might originally be generated with a multitouch OSC device, say, > and would be recorded by the DAW, which would also let me play back the > data
I suppose this would be useful in some limited sense. However, I doubt Ardour ever will, nor do I think it even should, support sequencing of events that are transmitted by some mechanism other than Jack. That would be a gigantic inconsistent mess for more reasons than I feel like listing, and trying to use UDP or whatever directly in a DAW raises a very large number of very deep questions for no benefit (hell, anti-benefit, Jack rules). Integration with IP based OSC transport should happen via a separate Jack program. Put in other terms, I think Ardour should support "OSC Messages". Not OSC in UDP/TCP/IP. If the community solves Jack OSC, it will get Ardour OSC pretty quickly. However, I am kind of through with OSC personally, so I don't intend to put any real effort into the Jack side of that problem. > OSC has been around since 1997, for crying out loud. > It's about time that sequencers do more with it than just automatizing > the transport controls. ;-) As Paul pointed out in his response, the reason for this lack is that OSC simply doesn't do what 99.999999999999% of the people who use a sequencer want to do. Blindly recording events with no editing or display ability simply isn't that useful, and certainly doesn't constitute a MIDI replacement. That said, it's not like a note standard would actually be difficult. It will (well, may) get actually made when someone actually needs it. Since we live in a somewhat closed and more flexible world, the Jack universe could be the place where that happens. I doubt it will elsewhere, the commercial guys have gone with custom incompatible USB protocols for hardware, and simply don't care about software interop. -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
