OSC

](/images/2014/03/MultiControl_062.png) Screenshot of MultiControl v0.6.2 Today I have added MultiControl to my GitHub account. Inititally, I did not intend to release the source code for MultiControl, because it is so old and dirty. The whole patch is based on bpatchers and trying to hide things away in the pre-Max5-days, when presentation view did not exist. I originally developed the Max patch back in 2004, mainly so that I could distribute a standalone application for my students to use. I have only incrementally updated it to work with newer versions of Max and OS X, but have never really given it a full brush-over. ...

Last week I was in Belfast for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2008). The conference was hosted by SARC, and it was great to finally be able to see (and hear!) the sonic lab which they have installed in their new building. I was involved in two papers, the first one being a Jamoma-related paper called “Flexible Control of Composite Parameters in Max/MSP” (PDF) written by Tim Place, Trond Lossius, Nils Peters and myself. Below is a picture of Trond giving the presentation. The main point of the paper is that we suggest that parameters should have properties and methods. This is both a general suggestion, and a specific one which we have started implementing in Jamoma using OSC. ...

micro-OSC (uOSC) was made public yesterday at NIME: micro-OSC (uOSC) is a firmware runtime system for embedded platforms designed to remain as small as possible while also supporting evolving trends in sensor interfaces such as regulated 3.3 Volt high-resolution sensors, mixed analog and digital multi-rate sensor interfacing, n > 8-bit data formats. uOSC supports the Open Sound Control protocol directly on the microprocessor, and the completeness of this implementation serves as a functional reference platform for research and development of the OSC protocol. ...

There are so many things happening, so I’m seriously lagging behind in writing up my summaries about what is going on. Here are some interesting things: The McGill group had a rendez-vous with Serge de Laubier and his Metainstrument. It looks cool, and it was great fun trying it on, although it will require much more than my 5 minutes to master all the mappings. A group of OSC interested people had a two hour meeting, discussing some relevant topics. The Jazzmutant people had written a suggestion for extending OSC, with schema and classes, and a system for querying and advertising information on the network. Hopefully Matt (or someone else) writes a summary of the discussion. The KeyWorx people have open sourced their software and are developing it in a new direction. Greg Schiemer presented his Pocket Gamelan project. Bill Gaver (Goldsmith’s) held a fascinating keynote, presenting his “early” work on SonicFinder, ARKola, and the DriftTable. Christopher Dobrian and Daniel Koppelman discussed the E(xpression) in NIME.