OSC as recinput

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

I just came to realize, that you can select audio and midi as input-device and record with them, but not osc.

So I would like to propose a way to record osc-messages.
As there are plugins out there, who can be controlled via OSC, they could be controlled in playback via these recorded osc-messages.

This would allow more precise control with plugins who support osc in a way, that you can alter the sent osc-messages, like you can do already with midi-notes.

I'm not sure, whether one would need a way to map osc-messages to individual notes, so it could be used as alternative to midi, for instance:

"/MyPlugin/Note/C1" would be associated with the note for C1 in such a map-file.

like a osc-mapfile that could be chosen for the track:

[mappings]
C1=/MyPlugin/Note/C1
C2=/MyPlugin/Note/C2

These would be visually mapped to Reaper's UI, so I could see at position 2:34 a yellow block, associated with "/MyPlugin/Note/C1", just as with midi there would be a yellow block associated with the MIDI-Note for C1.
The length would be set according to how long the "/MyPlugin/Note/C1"-osc-message would have been sent.

[mschnell]

Nice idea.

In fact decently recording OSC messages would result in "OSC-items" additionally to Midi Items and Audio Items. Such OSC items would need additional support all over the place.

IMHO handling just Midi notes that come in encapsulated in OSC messages, a preprocessing by e.g. OSCIIBot seems more appropriate.

-Michael