OpenSound Control

from http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/

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.

OSC Features

  • Open-ended, dynamic,URL-style symbolic naming scheme
  • Numeric and symbolic arguments to messages
  • Pattern matching language to specify multiple targets 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

applications that use OSC (partial list)

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