[PD] Welcome to the 90s

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Jun 11 01:48:58 CEST 2007


On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Martin Peach wrote:

> I don't know what hardware manufacturers are using these days but I 
> would suspect embedded PCs are the best way to go with totally digital 
> synthesis. There should be no reason not to use OSC except that it isn't 
> a proprietary standard so there's no money to be made with it...and 
> who's going to be the first to put an ethernet port in their machine.

OSC doesn't need Ethernet. It doesn't even need UDP, even though most 
implementations only implement a UDP transport. Frankly, I don't know why 
you shouldn't use OSC-over-serial with DB9 if that's cheaper. Else perhaps 
OSC-over-serial-over-USB in low-speed mode.

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