I think that OSC or something like it will eventually replace MIDI. But this will not happen until more of the music producing world is familiar with something more like a computer music way of doing business.

Regards,
Mike

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>From: Christopher Watts 
>Sent: Mar 7, 2006 12:31 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] gestual music
>
>I recently bought a Lemur control surface (it uses OSC as its data  
>protocol), and I've been using it primarily with Max/MSP -- although  
>I also intend to try it with Csound5. It does not transmit MIDI  
>messages, but the Lemur's client software will map incoming OSC data  
>to the MIDI message of your choice, allowing it to work with  
>applications that don't support OSC. Of course, when you do this  
>you're giving up the ridiculously high resolution of OSC messages,  
>which by my count is 7812.5 times that of MIDI. Overkill? Yes.
>The folks who developed OSC make the case for its use not only in a  
>networked /distributed environment, but also as a local protocol and  
>even as a means for getting data around inside a single application.  
>It will be interesting to see whether OSC will indeed replace MIDI  
>eventually (or is 0-127 permanently burned into our brains?)
>
>Cheers,
>Chris
>
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>Assistant Professor of Music
>St. Lawrence University
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>
>On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>> David Akbari wrote:
>>
>>> now that Csound implements OSC opcodes, MIDI will increasingly  
>>> become a thing of the past.
>>
>> Yes it would be nice if OSC worked on a MIDI circuit instead of  
>> just ethernet, it makes it harder to use microcontrollers like PICs  
>> and Stamps; the Rabbit is good for OSC. I think I'll try to  
>> implement OSC over MIDI and see if it works at all...
>
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