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Existing standard(s) for passing MIDI via OSC?

I am using OSC to feed into MIDI - so the many OSC controller apps can be used on standard MIDI kit. Just for 'proof of concept' I used this format:-

/midi/note_on/<note-number>
/midi/note_off/<note-number>
/midi/control_change/<control>/<value>
etc...

Now it seems to be doable... is there already a standard I could steal for this? If not, I am happy to define one ;)

Background: I am doing some WIFI OSC/MIDI stuff... A pyton script to act as MIDI WiFi server to receive midi/osc over IP (but really aimed at WiFi) in various flavours and piping them into the servers ALSA/MIDI system for further handling...

https://github.com/pperrin/midibridge

Solution

  • There is no OSC MIDI "standard" that would be widespread enough to be the standard.

    You could pick the same protocol as some existing OSC implementation, but this would not be interoperable with the majority of other OSC implementations.