PART I
MIDI and OSC
The first part of the book looks at the MIDI system universally used for passing data between musical systems. MIDI is not concerned with the sounds themselves; rather it is a system of messages that tell other things to generate the sound. Rather like the difference between sheet music and a tape recorder. OSC (Open Sound Control) is a similar idea brought up to date for networked systems.
The data gathered from a keyboard, in a form that is capable of expressing all the subtitles of a performance, to computer generated notes, these can be expressed as MIDI data. On the receive side sound generators can turn this data into ...
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