Libmapper
Joseph W. Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley · 2013
We present libmapper, a software library and protocol for providing network-enabled discovery and connectivity of real-time control signals. Today there is a trade-off present in the state of the art for music-related networking. At one extreme, we have many systems still using MIDI, an old and insufficient standard for specifying keyboard-oriented commands embedded in short, coded 3-byte messages, limiting modulation controls to a 7-bit range. At the other extreme we have Open Sound Control (OSC) [7], a flexible packet format that supports named data and a wide number of binary numerical representations, but lacks built-in semantic standards.