[needs-packaging] Open Sound Control - control computers, synthesisers multimedia devices and machinery over networks

URL:
http://opensoundcontrol.org/introduction-osc

Description:

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. Bringing the benefits of modern networking technology to the world of electronic musical instruments, OSC's advantages include interoperability, accuracy, flexibility, and enhanced organization and documentation.

This simple yet powerful protocol provides everything needed for real-time control of sound and other media processing while remaining flexible and easy to implement.

Features:

    * Open-ended, dynamic, URL-style symbolic naming scheme
    * Symbolic and high-resolution numeric argument data
    * Pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message
    * High resolution time tags
    * "Bundles" of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously
    * Query system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation

There are dozens of implementations of OSC, including real-time sound and media processing environments, web interactivity tools, software synthesizers, a large variety programming languages, and hardware devices for sensor measurement. OSC has achieved wide use in fields including computer-based new interfaces for musical expression, wide-area and local-area networked distributed music systems, inter-process communication, and even within a single application.

OSC Application Areas

This document compiled by Matt Wright and Adrian Freed lists some of the ways in which OSC has been used, organized into "application area" categories, with examples. Please add descriptions of your own applications of OSC as comments in the appropriate section.

    * Sensor/Gesture-Based Electronic Musical Instruments
    * Mapping nonmusical data to sound
    * Multiple-User Shared Musical Control
    * Web interfaces
    * Networked LAN Musical Performance
    * WAN performance and Telepresence
    * Virtual Reality
    * Wrapping Other Protocols Inside OSC
    * References

License: Open

Note:
There are many more plugins and applications that work alongside Open Sound Control
see below and elsewhere on the site -
http://opensoundcontrol.org/