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CNMAT OSC Milestones

Quasi-timeline linking to some of the ideas and research leading to the development of OSC.

1989-??? Buchla Thunder. David Wessel’s composition / improvisation / instrument-design process was centered around the Thunder in these years.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchla_Thunder
• https://reverb.com/item/15979856-buchla-thunder
• (2019 Sensel Morph Buchla Thunder overlay)

1990-1993: NeXT Cube had musical applications.

1993-97 SGI Indy could synthesise hundreds of additive synthesis partials in real-time on the main CPU.

Adrian Freed’s softcast additive synthesizer ran on Indy CPU and could synthesize hundreds of partials in realtime: https://web.archive.org/web/19980131182602/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/

1996 SynthControl “protocol” to control softcast: https://web.archive.org/web/19980131182554/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/SynthControl/

1997 CAST OSC Implementation: https://web.archive.org/web/19980131182609/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/CAST-OSC-implementation.html

1998 revised CAST OSC implementation: https://web.archive.org/web/20001007052955/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/CAST-OSC-implementation.html

In particular OSC could control the “transforms” of the spectral models (aka “timbral prototypes”) https://web.archive.org/web/20001007052955/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/CAST-OSC-implementation.html#list-of-transforms These included:

• Time machine

• Timbral prototypes (interpolating multiple SDIF files): https://web.archive.org/web/20001011081643/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/timbralprotos.html

• transpose: https://web.archive.org/web/20001007220950/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/transpose.html

• inharmonicity: https://web.archive.org/web/20001007143533/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/Server/inharm.html

CAST release 1.13 used OSC: https://web.archive.org/web/20001008224123/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/CAST/releases.html

OSC homepage 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20000831162358/http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/

2002 Spec: <spec-1_0.html>

To do sinusoidal analysis/synthesis today you could try Michael Klingbeil’s SPEAR (sound file to SDIF file): http://www.klingbeil.com/spear

This page of OpenSoundControl website updated Tue May 4 11:06:29 PDT 2021 by matt (license: CC BY).