midOSC : a Gumstix-Based MIDI-to-OSC Converter

Sébastien Schiesser

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

A MIDI-to-OSC converter is implemented on a commercially available embedded linux system, tighly integratedwith a microcontroller. A layered method is developed whichpermits the conversion of serial data such as MIDI to OSCformatted network packets with an overall system latencybelow 5 milliseconds for common MIDI messages.The Gumstix embedded computer provide an interesting and modular platform for the development of such anembedded applications. The project shows great potentialto evolve into a generic sensors-to-OSC ethernet converterwhich should be very useful for artistic purposes and couldbe used as a fast prototyping interface for gesture acquisitiondevices.

Citation:

Sébastien Schiesser. 2009. midOSC : a Gumstix-Based MIDI-to-OSC Converter. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177669

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Schiesser2009,
 abstract = {A MIDI-to-OSC converter is implemented on a commercially available embedded linux system, tighly integratedwith a microcontroller. A layered method is developed whichpermits the conversion of serial data such as MIDI to OSCformatted network packets with an overall system latencybelow 5 milliseconds for common MIDI messages.The Gumstix embedded computer provide an interesting and modular platform for the development of such anembedded applications. The project shows great potentialto evolve into a generic sensors-to-OSC ethernet converterwhich should be very useful for artistic purposes and couldbe used as a fast prototyping interface for gesture acquisitiondevices.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Schiesser, S\'{e}bastien},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177669},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {MIDI, Open Sound Control, converter, gumstix },
 pages = {165--168},
 title = {midOSC : a Gumstix-Based {MIDI-to-OSC} Converter},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_165.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}