On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:43:31 -0600, martin rumori wrote: > AFAIK in the beginning it was never meant as a midi replacement, but > should -in opposite to midi- not make any assumptions on the musical > meaning of the data being sent. especially in the field of new music > or sound art, MIDI is next to completely irrelevant as carrier for > musical data (but is still used for control data like sensor stuff > etc, since you can build such a thing with a small pic uC). > > however, an "official" way of encapsulating midi in osc would maybe > push especially some commercial developers to osc, but i guess the > CNMAT folks don't want to have it in their official spec.
As Dave pointed out there is the 'm' type, but that doesnt fix any of MIDIs problems, jsut a way of wrapping it in OSC. I dont really think OSC needs to replace MIDI, if your doing 12 tone, limited polyphony, bandwisth etc. stuff, which most people are, its fine. - Steve
