OSC

OSC requires the use of third party applications to send/receive data beyond Resonite, please use your best judgement when downloading 3rd party applications.

Open Sound Control(OSC) is a network protocol that allows software and hardware to send and receive data. It is traditionally used for controlling Sound related equipment such as DJ Equipment, Musical Instruments and Sliders/Faders.

However, OSC itself can be used for basically any purpose where you need to send structured data over the network. In Resonite, we're seeing this used for:

• Haptics
• Face and Eye Tracking
• Macro Pads/Shortcut pads

Prerequisities

While OSC makes it much easier to get data in and out of Resonite, it is still a network protocol which means that there are some prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge about IP Addresses and Network Ports.
• For receiving:
  • An open port on the computer running Resonite.
  • The IP Address of the computer running Resonite.
• For sending:
  • An OSC Server reachable by Resonite on the network
• Some sort of OSC Application/Tool. See tools for some examples.

Components

OSC has the following Resonite Components:

• Component:OSC_Receiver - Receive data into Resonite from OSC
• Component:OSC_Sender - Send data out of Resonite from OSC
• Component:OSC_Value - Expose an OSC value as a regular component field
• Component:OSC_Field - Store an OSC value in another component's value field

Data

OSC Supports many data types, but Resonite supports:

• Float
• Double
• Int
• Long
• String
• Color
• ColorX (Will convert to sRGB)
• DateTime
• Byte

Many OSC Applications send data purely as Floats.

Multi-Dimensional Values

OSC Supports values which have multiple values. This is very similar to Resonite's Type system that has types such as Float3.

For example, an application might send a rotational value as a Multi-Dimensional value, when this occurs you can use the ArgumentIndex to control which value you are interacting with:

Path	Argument Index	Value	Description
/osc/rotation	0	90	The Pitch value of a rotation
/osc/rotation	1	180	The Yaw value of a rotation
/osc/rotation	2	0	The Roll value of a rotation

The structure of OSC messages and data is up to the Sender, as such some applications or tools send this data in different ways.

Tools

A number of tools that support OSC already exist and are compatible with Resonite's implementation:

• OSC Controller - Control Sliders, Buttons etc on your phone and send the data via OSC
• Sensors2OSC - Send Android Sensor data over OSC
• Basic-OSC-Example - A very simple OSC app written in C#. Used for testing OSC Connectivity.
• GigglePuck - A haptic device, that vibrates in response to Resonite based Interactions
• ofxOscMidi - A program to receive MIDI messages from a source such as a hardware MIDI controller or software DAW and convert them to OSC messages which Resonite can understand. Can also receive OSC input from Resonite and send to MIDI output.

Examples

• Using a Phone's sensors
  • Rotating an in-game box with your phone's gyroscope by Frooxius.
  • Accessing Sensors2OSC Data - Tutorial by ProbablePrime
• Sliders, Buttons and a Multi-Touch System
  • Frooxius testing OSC Support
  • Tutorial by ProbablePrime