On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:34 AM, geiger wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
FUDI wasn't designed to "undo" the MIDI revolution.
Is there OSC over RS232 ?
OSC doesn't specify the transport layer AFAIK, so yes, there is. If your question is if there is an implementation, then I would say I don't think so. You will see more implementations of the MIDI protocol over RS232 (MIDI hardware != RS232) because MIDI is easier to implement.
In that sense FUDI is very nice in that it is human readable, but its implementation is quite complicated as you need a parser for the number values. And it needs a bit more bandwidth under most circumstances.
MIDI is a hardware- and protocol specification, OSC is just a protocol. With a decent 8-bit clean morse alphabet you could even transmit it by drumming :) But encoding and decoding it is pretty complicated.
OSC does not specify the transport specifically but it was designed
around UDP, so its not a trivial spec:
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/OSC-spec.html
Most people just implement the namespace part of it and call that OSC
(i.e. /path/to/thing value). I don't know of anyone who uses OSC
TimeTags, for example.
.hc