Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 07/09/2012 06:16 AM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote:
> On Jul 09, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > Once again, do you know of any sequencer applications that use
> > "qmidinet"
> > > ?
> >
> > Qmidinet is a gateway between the network and native MIDI applications
> > for
> > Linux (ALSA and Jack). Any Linux sequencer using ALSA sequencer or
> > Jack can
> > be used. Qtractor, for instance.

> Off the top of my head, I can tell you: Reaper, Renoise, Ardour use OSC
> in addition to MIDI. Even a language like Pure Date has OSC and MIDI
> objects. (I am not even mentioning the commercial OS X and Windows
> applications that do the same.) In other words, OSC has been broadly
> adopted. With all due respect to Rui, the "midinet "gateway" is still in
> its early stages and not adopted and implemented by other third parties.

IMO renoise, reaper and ardour do indeed have OSC support but are for 
control functions mostly, last time i checked. those functions may be an 
alternative to MIDI controllers but the point here is that OSC is not 
there as a substitute to MIDI sequencing and/or performance, although 
one can argue that control automation might get there somehow i suspect 
OSC is not the sequencing data format on those applications which is MIDI.

re. qmidinet network gateway: it is completely independent of client 
application implementations;

data being conveyed through the network is pure raw MIDI data so that 
ALL applications that send or receive plain MIDI data are eligible to 
work seamlessly as long they interface with JACK MIDI and/or ALSA MIDI;

note that qmidinet just functions as an ALSA MIDI and/or JACK MIDI 
client; no one has to change a bit on his/her MIDI application to work 
with qmidinet; it is actually plug-and-play :)

cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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