Old 10-27-2020, 04:55 AM   #1
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Default OSCIIBot VST

In the other Forum, a OSCIIBot VST has been discussed.

This should be possible using the open OSCIIBot source code from GitHub and the Jusce VST creation suite.

Such a VST would be very useful to enable JSFXes and other track based entities to communicate with external OSC enabled devices.

Maybe it also makes sense to have them send OSC messages to Reaper itself.

Any comments on that ?

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Old 10-27-2020, 02:31 PM   #2
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Mentioning concrete use case examples would help rest of us why and where this can be very important.
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Old 11-05-2020, 08:11 AM   #3
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Default A VST somewhat like this already exists

There is a VST called OSCar from Ircam that will send and receive OSC.

It only handles floating number parameters so it will not replace functionally complex OSCII-bot scripts but it looks useable for simple situations.

See https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/oscar/
The install download contains a user guide
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Old 11-06-2020, 03:59 PM   #4
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You can also check this: http://oscvstbridge.sourceforge.net/
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Old 11-12-2020, 09:46 AM   #5
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I'm as curious as mschnell on this. The specific use case that brought this up was a requirement to send strings out of Reaper (coming from e.g. midi text items / item notes) to a device via osc.

While it's trivial to rewrite midi text events to sysex in a jsfx (so that they can be sent on), and a little harder to script something to do something similar with item notes, Reaper doesn't itself support sending arbitrary OSC messages. (?)

So it looked like going
text -> sysex -> some kind of midi connector/loopback -> OSCIIBot -> OSC
was the only way of doing it.

Thanks goldenarpharazon for your suggestion, but strings would be required

And thanks TonE, but it looks that would create a dependency on Java? Not ideal, but something to think about.

The general point though, given that OSCIIBot exists as a standalone, how useful would it be to rework it as a VST? And how easy? Presumably all the heavy lifting has been done by the current developers
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Old 12-15-2020, 10:32 AM   #6
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The general point though, given that OSCIIBot exists as a standalone, how useful would it be to rework it as a VST? And how easy? Presumably all the heavy lifting has been done by the current developers
Anybody who alreafy created a decent VST in C++ should be able to create am OSCIIBot VST using the open source code.

Licensing of open source vs. the VST headers by Steinberg might be a problem, though. Hence Juice might help....

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