Using OSC in Pure Data

Vanilla Only

Sending OSC

The default version of PD is referred to as Vanilla. OSC can be used in Puredata without further packages, by means of the ojects netsend, oscformat and oscparse. The patch osc-send-vailla.pd sends a message to port 6666 on the localhost (127.0.0.1). The message has the following structure and contains one float argument:

/oscillator/frequency/ [float]
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Receiving OSC

The corresponding receiver patch osc-receive-vanilla.pd listens on port 6666. Using the route object, the message is unwrapped until the single float argument can be processed by the number box:

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Using Externals

Dependencies

Sending OSC

The following example is based on additional externals. For using them, install the external mrpeach with the Deken tool inside Puredata: https://puredata.info/docs/Deken The send patch uses the hostname localhost instead of an IP address. The path /oscillator/frequency of the OSC message has been defined arbitrarily - it has to match between client and receiver. Before sending OSC messages, the connect message needs to be clicked.

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Receiving OSC

Before receiving OSC messages, the udpreceive object needs to know which port to listen on. Messages are then unpacked and routed according to their path, using the routeOSC object.

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References

1997

  • Miller S. Puckette. Pure Data. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Thessaloniki, \\ Greece, 1997.
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1988

  • Miller S. Puckette. The patcher. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Computer Music Association, 1988.
    [details] [BibTeX▼]