Support for OSC

dLive dLive Feature Suggestions
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Please consider support for Open Sound Control.

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I’m not against OSC on dLive, but I’d be interested in knowing what people think the advantage would be. Are there tools people like to use that support OSC and not MIDI? I have done a little coding on both X32 OSC and dLive TCP MIDI. I prefer some aspects of each over the other.

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OSC support for all AH products!

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OSC definitely looks to be the future standard for audio / video system communication as it is much more flexible and easier to program, so it would be a fantastic addition to the range.

OSC vs. MIDI

We are now using OSC on projects where, in the past, we would have used MIDI. OSC is infinitely granular and bundled UDP messages occur simultaneously, continuously, and nonstop; where MIDI is limited to steps and divisions because it supports a very limited range of values. With OSC you can transmit multiple data types like 32-bit integers, floating point numbers, strings and more; while MIDI only transmits 1-byte integers 0-255. MIDI uses a compact binary message format with a limited number of fields. OSC uses a human readable, URL-style address format and can send data in forms of words or numbers. OSC also includes a picosecond-resolution timestamp while the MIDI beat-clock is low-resolution with a precision of about 20,833 microseconds. To boot, the OSC data rate is Gigabit speed while the MIDI data rate is only around 31,250 bits per second!

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Well, for starters DLive dosen’t have MIDI Ports, and downloading / Installing drivers on guest engineer’s PC/MACs is sub-optimal to say the least. Secondly, for most things (Qlab Remotes for example) a simple Midi Note is sufficient. Nobody likes to memorise and write convoluted HEX codes just to tell the PC “Go”(!), or worse, having to buy external BomeBox devices so you can send messages to lighting desks (Where installing A&H Midi over IP drivers is not an option).
OSC is not the do all / end all solution, but it would help with some of MIDI-over-IP (and MIDI in general) shortcomings. And OSC seems to be growing in popularity a lot too.

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Coming from XM32, OSC is great and I would love it if dLive handled it, its somewhat human readable which makes editing things on the fly much simpler when I’m building up show control files on Qlab/Reaper.