Dave Robillard spoke at the LCA Audio MiniConf about
OSC, a next-gen
MIDI protocol that specifies a way to control musical tools in ways
that aren’t just limited to the properties of notes; he also demoed
his elite LADSPA patching tool, Om.
Om lets you plug
LADSPA plugins together, a-la gst-editor does with gstreamer plugins.
This means you can start pulling together effects in all sorts of
audio applications without requiring built-in support for LADSPA – all
they need is JACK support.
Suggestions for projects that would be useful, according to Dave: an
OSC sequencer, for prerecording OSC patterns just as MIDI sequencers
do; this would allow the user to script audio programs for real
ultimate power; an OSC patch bay and control panel (similar to but I
guess more unifying than the ALSA and JACK panels).
Also of note: supercollider is an
awesome language/toolkit/thingy; it’s a compiler/bytecode interpreter
and OSC aware synth… it needs to be seen and heard to be fully
understood; I can’t do it justice here :-)
Shane mentions wanting to get supercollider tied into
Togra somehow :-)