According to the mrmr docs, clients are supposed to offer
/mrmr connect ip-address
to the server on its UDP OSC port, and I never see that, nor any other
incoming OSC messages. Perhaps the mrmr server does something non-OSC
to initiate.
I'm all for fewer moving pieces, so I am hoping the TouchOSC guy will
help me out. :)
I hear that. OSC is great if you're writing your own protocol, but I guess identity is not a property that the TouchOSC thought to include. I think it's a really good feature to have.
On a somewhat-related note, has anyone ever seen a tool that records
and replays OSC messages, similar in spirit to a MIDI looper? I
thought of writing one in ChucK, but that seems like a non-trivial
problem.
That sounds like a really awesome idea. I guess, if I were building that in chuck, I'd start with just an object that gets set up to record/playback only one parameter at a time and then leverage that into banks of network input recorders.
<fantasy>
OSCorder rec;
rec.listenFor("/this/is/my/message", "i"); // starts the listener, creates an appropriate array type for data
rec.play(1); // error! no data!
rec.rec(1); // starts recording
1::minute => now:
rec.rec(0); // stops recording
rec.play(1); // plays it back, could be sporkable...
1::minute => now;
rec.play(0); // stops playback
rec.rate(0.5); // half speed
rec.play(1);
2::minute => now;
rec.play(0);
rec.erase(); // clear array and start over....
</fantasy>
Something like that sounds perfectly reasonable. That's just riffing off the LiSa object. There's probably a way to leverage LiCK to make it a lot more useful to you.
mike
michael