[RWP] OSC

[Jim Snowbarger]

Oh, ok,  sorry.  I misunderstood where you were when you pressed enter on 
the file.
Yep, no problem. I'll check that out.
I think an OSC file is just a way to define the language you are going to 
speak when you actualy do talk.
But, then, you also needa way to do the talking.
So, other applications can send messages to reaper, which are phrased using 
this custom language you have defined.
So, through your OSC definition, you can define that jabberWocky means nudge 
track 1 volume up, or whatever.  The OSC file establishes that relationship.
Then, you can send 20 messages, each of which say JabberWocky, and reaper 
will say, oh yeah, I know what he means, and perform the action 20 times, 
and voila, one DB of volume change.
You can apparently send OSC messages to reaper over the network.  And, I 
presume there is also a way to do it locally within the same machine.
So, while I'm learning several new languages these days, what's one more. 
So, I'm off to try to puzzle out OSC, and maybe get this damned studio Mix 
operational yet.

Ok, I'm going to stop typing now, until I actually have something new and 
useful to say.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] OSC


> I'm so rudimentary I didn't even try to open an OSc file within Reaper.
> I just went to StartMenu/Computer/Drive C/Program Files/ReaperInstalled 
> Data/OSC and clicked enter on the top file.
> Windows said can't open, so I chose wordpad, which opened the dot OSC 
> extension just fine.
> I could be wrong, but I assume you can edit the file freely with notepad, 
> wordpad, whatever.
> Instructions are included in the file, like to rename it after editing, 
> and lines with numbers suggested how to change them to get other results.
> This is what I remember after 2 minutes looking at it, I'll need to really 
> look at it seriously, but; you know it frightened me that it might be so 
> easy to use, because if I learned it I wouldn't remain a non-programmer; 
> and I didn't get into all this to learn to be a rocket scientist, just 
> make some music. smile.
> Indi
> On 6/5/2013 11:19 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>> Ok, Indigo, old buddy, Step up to the plate here and tell me what the 
>> heck
>> I'm doing wrong, in trying to open the osc template in an editor, 
>> according
>> to your recent posts.
>>
>> I'm in the dialog entitled: Control Surface Settings, which I got to by
>> going to control surfaces, in preferences,  selecting OSC, which I had 
>> added
>> as a control surface.  I click the edit button, which opens this OSC
>> settings dialog.
>> In here is where half the controls don't appear in the tab order.
>> One of them that does not appear is Pattern Config, which is a combo box
>> containing, default, logic pad, and logic touch.  I select Default.
>> Your first post, from sighty  mousey land, said to click some control 
>> that I
>> don't see at all.  Then, your second post, as I understood it,  said that
>> you selected default and pressed enter, and that the template opened in a
>> text editor.
>> No such thing happens here.  Pressing enter dismisses the dialog, back to
>> preferences.  Double Left clicking does nothing obvious other than jjust
>> selectin it.
>> Right click does nothing.
>>
>> So,  spill the beans and set me straight , if you will, before I pull 
>> even
>> more of my hair out..  Thanks.
>> (you too can prevent computer violance).
>>
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