On 3/4/12, J. Liles <malnour...@gmail.com> wrote: > I personally don't think that the way notes are encoded is the primary > limitation imposed by MIDI. A note is a frequency, an attack/decay > modulation, and a duration.
apparently you're forgetting or have not been a part of the many debates with the music technology community about how to define "a note". personally i'm happy with what you wrote, but i know several people who have made cogent arguments that defining notes in terms of frequencies completely misses one of the most musical semantics. > The way OSC is used, and in libmapper in particular, is to say things > about the input device, not the music, which, as far as the input > device is concerned, doesn't exist. as as receiver of OSC, i'd be entirely happy with such a standard. the problem for users is that it leaves the mappings unspecified, and although there are some clever solutions for this (several of them), from a user's perspective it always adds an extra layer of complexity. contrast with MIDI, where almost all the messages that most people will generate have a defined meaning even from the sender's perspective (though sure, the receiver can still map it to something else if it wants to). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev