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On 3/4/12, J. Liles  wrote:
> I personally don't think that the way notes are encoded is the primary

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> limitation imposed by MIDI. A note is a frequency, an attack/decay

> modulation, and a duration.

apparently you're forgetting or have not been a part of the many

debates with the music technology community about how to define "a

note". personally i'm happy with what you wrote, but i know several

people who have made cogent arguments that defining notes in terms of

frequencies completely misses one of the most musical semantics.
> The way OSC is used, and in libmapper in particular, is to say things

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> about the input device, not the music, which, as far as the input

> device is concerned, doesn't exist.

as as receiver of OSC, i'd be entirely happy with such a standard. the

problem for users is that it leaves the mappings unspecified, and

although there are some clever solutions for this (several of them),

from a user's perspective it always adds an extra layer of complexity.

contrast with MIDI, where almost all the messages that most people

will generate have a defined meaning even from the sender's

perspective (though sure, the receiver can still map it to something

else if it wants to).

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