You can read the (page long) abstract or the full text in HTMLform. We presented the first paper on OpenSound Control at ICMC 97, describing the protocol and its features. OSC DocumentationĪ list of some of OSC's application areas.Ī paper titled " OpenSound Control: State of the Art 2003." This is probably the best introduction to OSC's features, (then-)current implementations, and advantages. Please let us know about any other systems not on this list. " The Toaster": hardware that converts analog sensor data to OSC output.VisualWorks Smalltalk (via Siren or VW OSC).The SmartController: programmable OSC, MIDI, control voltage mapping conversion hardware.Max/MSP (for Macintosh (mature) and Windows (beta)).Lemur, an LCD screen touchpanel capable of sensing multiple fingers at once.Flash (via flosc - see also the Flash OSC Forum).EtherSense: sensors-to-OSC digitizing interface (distributed via IRCAM's forumnet).OpenSound Control has been implemented in the following systems: OSC Community Portal OSC now has a collaborative OSC Implementations Query system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation."Bundles" of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously.Pattern matching language to specify multiple targets of a single message.Numeric and symbolic arguments to messages.Open-ended, dynamic,URL-style symbolic naming scheme.
OpenSound Control ("OSC") is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology and has been used in many application areas.