[PD] could OSC support tcp?

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu umbpux at tin.it
Sun Mar 16 16:26:52 CET 2003


I guess soft synth come first, then OSC over UDP/IP/Ethernet physical
controls (maybe with MIDI too), then hard synth.

This is partially happening/ed.

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 15:13, Larry Troxler wrote:
> On Sunday 16 March 2003 03:00, Andy Schmeder wrote:
> > OSC is itself a protocol which is completely independent of the choice of
> > transport method. 
> 
> OSC seems really interesting, but is it a smart thing not to specify the 
> transport protocol? So far I've seen only one hardware synth (Reaktor) that 
> supports it. Is any commercial manufacturer really going to replace MIDI with 
> this if the transport method isn't specified? I suppose that Ethernet over 
> UDP would be a logical choice, but it would still be somewhat of a gamble on 
> the part of the first manufacturer to implement it, hoping that the others 
> would follow suit.
> 
> Or am I missing something here?
> 
> Larry Troxler
> 
> 
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