OpenSoundControl (OSC) for Pd

A collection of Pd object classes for OSC-messages. These objects only convert between Pd-messages and OSC-messages (binary format), so you will need a separate set of objects that implement the transport (OSI-Layer 4), for instance [udpsend]/[udpreceive] for sending OSC over UDP.

Author: Martin Peach

Object classes

• [packOSC]
  convert a Pd-message to an OSC (binary) message (useful if you want to transmit OSC over UDP or other protocols that have the concept of variable length packets)

• [unpackOSC]
  convert an OSC (binary) message to a Pd-message (useful if you want to transmit OSC over UDP or other protocols that have the concept of variable length packets)

• [routeOSC]
  route OSC-like Pd-messages according to the first element in the path

• [pipelist]
  delay lists (useful if you want to respect timestamps)

• [packOSCstream]
  convert a Pd-message to an OSC (binary) message suitable for streaming transport (useful if you want to transmit OSC over TCP/IP or a serial line)

• [unpackOSCstream]
  convert an OSC (binary) message suitable for streaming transport to a Pd-message (useful if you want to transmit OSC over TCP/IP or a serial line)

Installing

Like most externals, osc is available via deken.

• Open Pd's package manager (Help→Find externals)
• search for "osc"
• install the package

Building

osc uses the pd-lib-builder build system. To build osc yourself, simply run make in the top-level directory. See the pd-lib-builder documentation for more information.