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Best Practices for Open Sound Control

Andrew Schmeder, Adrian Freed, David Wessel. Best Practices for Open Sound Control. 2010. Linux Audio Conference.

Download: files/osc-best-practices-final.pdf

Abstract: The structure of the Open Sound Control (OSC) content format is introduced with historical context. The needs for temporal synchronization and dynamic range of audio control data are described in terms of accuracy, precision, bit-depth, bit-rate, and sampling frequency. Specific details are given for the case of instrumental gesture control, spatial audio control and synthesis algorithm control. The consideration of various transport mechanisms used with OSC is discussed for datagram, serial and isochronous modes. A summary of design approaches for describing audio control data is shown, and the case is argued that multi-layered information-rich representations that support multiple strategies for describing semantic structure are necessary.

Context: This was a featured publication on the legacy (pre-2011) opensoundcontrol.org website, ported to the new site by Matt Wright in early 2021


Submitted to opensoundcontrol.org by Legacy at 03/26/2021 17:03:29


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