Re: Open Sound control?

[David Wright]

On Sun 14 Aug 2016 at 13:02:08 (+0200), address@hidden wrote:
>     b> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control is sayed to
>     b> replace MIDI. Is this something usefull for lilypond?
> 
> It should be.  Storing and sending/receiving arbitrary data is
> straightforward in OSC, in MIDI you'll have to build and parse sysex for
> any non-standard (e.g. rhythms, beams, slurs, offsets, markups...).
> 
>     b> Can one save osc files like MIDI files?
> 
> Yes.  All information in any .ly file could be encoded in OSC format and
> saved to files or sent along to other apps.  SuperCollider and OpenMusic
> are examples of apps supporting OSC as one possible score-file format.

Looking at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control
I can't see any reference to a file format. At the bottom, there's a
link "Music notation file formats" which takes you to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_notation_file_formats
which contains a link "Open Sound Control" under the heading
Pages in category "Music notation file formats"
and that nicely completes the circle with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control

The list which contains "Open Sound Control" also contains "MIDI file"
which suggests the error is wiki's, not mine.

So would I be right in thinking OSC is only a Protocol and not
a File Format?

> http://opensoundcontrol.org/files/OSC-Demo.pdf

I'm not sure what I'm missing seeing in this page by not having
"language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping" available.

> https://www.midi.org/articles/white-paper-comparison-of-midi-and-osc

One of the comparisons here is Standard File Format:
MIDI: yes    OSC: an implied negative.

I've googled around for a file format, but all I find are applications
and program fragments. OK, an application might be able to store an OSC
protocol stream in a file, but that does not make that a file format.

Cheers,
David.