BomeBox upcoming OSC features

Bome Products
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Hi, we have no updates on progress.

Below are my personal comments and not representing Bome.

I have been monitoring these requests for some time now and am curious as to the specific vision of the users that have been requesting OSC capabilities and issues that are trying to be resolved. I ask this primarily because OSC is now becoming more common with DAWs which of course usually run on a host operating system and there are some tools available on computers to handle OSC messages already.

Iā€™m curious if this request is primarily to be able to attach a MIDI controller to BomeBox and have it convert MIDI to OSC and OSC to MIDI or for some other reason.

Of course MIDI 1.0 resolution is 7 or 14 bit and OSC is 32 bit so there would likely be some resolution lost in the conversion. Also the nature of of OSC is pretty free form so there are no ā€˜standardā€™ OSC messages. Most vendors have their own implementation and users can even define their own OSC message types (within the OSC framework).

I would be interested in understanding more from a user perspective their expected use case so that whenever OSC is implemented on BomeBox, the implementation has a chance of meeting the majority of use cases. Iā€™m also interested because in some cases, I believe there may be other solutions other than putting OSC on BomeBox. If you using one of these other solutions and would like to offload to BomeBox some OSC functionality, I will like to understand that as well.

Also as MIDI 2.0 development continues (which has higher resolution and maybe higher than OSC), Iā€™m interested to understand if any future use cases for MIDI 2.0 conversion to and from OSC would be necessary.

Again, this is not Bome Corporation speaking. Just a curious support guy who have watched this OSC requests come in and have not seen any real world examples of given use cases that could not be solved by other means.

A few OSC tools available that I have played with are listed below. For MIDI to OSC conversion and visa versa, I usually use one of these and the application is usually a host that is running a DAW of some sorts. I have not run into a use case yet that requires an OSC hardware controller to convert to MIDI without the need of a host. (Maybe I am running a sheltered life).

Mac - OSCulator
Windows - OSCII-bot, Central Control Pro, Pd (Pure data)

Steve Caldwell

P.S. I continue to ensure these requests are passed along for consideration.

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I didnā€™t see any responses to this so hereā€™s my personal use case -

ETC EOS has very lacking midi control, faders are barely useable since EOS mostly responds to midi notes instead of control values. EOS does however have very robust OSC support, including over network. Using BOME to take my midi fader values (and other button presses and stuff) and convert them to OSC to send over the network to add additional faders to my console is what Iā€™m looking for

There used to be software that took care of that, but itā€™s no longer available and the only other software that does it is pretty unstable and not good for a show environment.

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Hi and welcome to the Bome community!

Bome can convert CC values to MIDI-Notes if you wish. We do it all the time using GrandMA2 which also requires MIDI notes.

This is on the development roadmap, hopefully sooner than later but we cannot provide a date.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Hi Ian, thanks from me, too! If you donā€™t mind, I will notify you for possible beta testing. We want to make sure that all relevant use cases will be covered.