OSC Mapping

Open Sound Control is a successor to the MIDI control protocol. It enables communication between computer software, sound synthesizers and other multimedia devices that support OSC. Its advantage over MIDI include: an open-ended and dynamic URL-style symbolic naming scheme, symbolic and high-resolution numeric argument data, pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message, high resolution time tags and "bundles" of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously.

OSC Setup

The OSC setup options can be opened by choosing "Edit -> Preferences" from the main menu and selecting the "OSC" tab.

Enable Server: This starts the Renoise OSC server and the network port is changed to a listening state, so you may get a firewall warning the first time this is enabled.
Incoming Messages: This panel simply displays messages relevant to the networking process.
Protocol: Select the protocol which the Renoise server will use.
- Udp: Provides a high transfer rate with lower reliability than Tcp.
- Tcp: Provides a lower transfer rate than Udp with higher reliability.
Port: Select the Port number for messages to be transferred over. Generally, a number greater than 1024 is used.
Command List: Lists the various commands that it is possible to use to communicate with Renoise.
Explaination Panel: When clicking on a command in the Command List, an explanation of what the command does is displayed here.