Re: Open Sound control?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

>>>>>> "D" == David Wright <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     D> I've googled around for a file format, but all I find are
>     D> applications and program fragments. OK, an application might be
>     D> able to store an OSC protocol stream in a file, but that does not
>     D> make that a file format.
>
> OSC has no more need for a special file format than does my TODO list.
>
> The question was whether OSC could be useful with LY, which it surely
> would be.  Esp. compared to MIDI, where any notation quality apart from
> delta-time, coarse pitch values and dynamics are eraded.

LilyPond does not use Midi as a storage format but as an output format,
just like PDF is an output format.  The salient point of having a Midi
backend is not to store information but to pass it on.  Without a large
body of soft- and hardware able to process the resulting OSC files, this
is a pretty pointless exercise.  MusicXML export would likely be quite
more useful for letting LilyPond interface with other applications while
preserving more information about the original input.

-- 
David Kastrup