ROSC

ROSC is intended to build and parse messages in the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol in R.

Currently, only building messages is implemented. ROSC builds string representations of OSC Messages that can then be passed to an external function that encodes OSC for transport.

About OSC

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a transport-independent, message-oriented communication protocol for communication among computers, devices. OSC is differentiated from the related encodings XML, JSON, YMAL, MIME and MIDI by use of regular expressions and pattern-matching for dispatching, and by temporal and atomicity semantics. This package partially implements the OSC 1.1 Encoding Specification http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/content/open-sound-control-11-encoding-specification.

http://opensoundcontrol.org/

Many applications, most programming environments, and numerous devices (including sensor/actuator interfaces such as Arduino) have OSC client and/or server implementations.

See:
http://opensoundcontrol.org/implementations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control#Applications

Python, Matlab, and many other computing languages have OSC implementations.

R does not (yet), so here is a first attempt to remedy that.

Building OSC Messages

Functions

• oscMessage - Build OSC Message from user supplied data, address pattern, and optional type tag string

• oscType - Helper function to calculate an OSC Type Tag String from user supplied data

• listFlatten - Helper function to recursively flatten a list (and vector list elements) into a single-level list of elements each of length 1.

Not (yet) supported:

• OSC Time Tags
• OSC Blobs
• OSC Bundles
• arrays

Not (likely to be) supported (ever):

• the full libo extension of OSC.

See http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/2015_Dynamic_Message_Oriented_Middleware.pdf for a description. This should be a separate package.

Parsing (Dispatching) Messages

Not yet implemented. This will require writing functions to dispatch OSC Address Patterns and convert OSC arguments to R data types.

Example building OSC Messages with ROSC

library(ROSC)

## Example OSC address patterns
address <- "/audio/1/foo"
address.with.wildcards <- "/{th,s}ing/n[2-4]/red*"

## Example data to pack into OSC messages
data1 <- "bird"
data2 <- 6:8
data3 <- list(list(3:4,"apple"), TRUE, list(list(5.1,"foo"),NULL))

## Example of a manual type string for data3
data3_typestring <- ",iiSidSN"

## Example OSC messages
OSC1 <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data1)
OSC2 <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data2, typecomma=FALSE) # remove comma from typstring
OSC3 <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data3) # now with a nested list of mixed data types
OSC4 <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data3, double = "f") # convert doubles to 32bit floats
OSC5 <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data3, logical = "integer") # convert logical to ints

Sending OSC over UDP

OSC is transport-independant, but it typically sent over UDP, and less often over TCP. UDP is chosen for many applications because of the lower latency (at the expenses of a theoretical possibility of occasional lost packets), and because of the ability to broadcast without the need for first establishing a connection, simplifying communication.

OSC over UDP in native R

Unlike TCP socket connections, UDP is not natively supported in R. UDP clients and servers can be written in RCPP, but none that implement OSC compliant packets have yet been built. This should be be on a to-do list for interested R developers.

OSC over UDP via Bash command oscchief:

Dependencies:

1. pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/

Install with Homebrew: $ brew install pkg-config or see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/

2. liblo http://liblo.sourceforge.net/

Install liblo from source (requires make):

$ cd liblo-x.xx
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-static
$ make
$ make install

3. osccheif http://hypebeast.github.io/oscchief/

compile and install oscchief (requires make):

$ git clone https://github.com/hypebeast/oscchief.git oscchief
$ cd oscchief
$ make
$ sudo make install

oscchief Usage

oscchief Version 0.2.0
Copyright (C) 2013 Sebastian Ruml <sebastian.ruml@gmail.com>

usage: oscchief send HOST PORT OSCADDRESS TYPES ARGUMENTS
       oscchief send FILENAME
       oscchief listen PORT

positional arguments:
    HOST: IP address of the host where you want to send your OSC message
    PORT: Port number
    OSCADDRESS: OSC address where you want to send your message
    TYPES: OSC type tags. Supported types:
        i - 32 Bit integer
        h - 64 Bit integer
        f - 32 Bit float
        d - 64 Bit double
        c - Char
        s - String
        T - True (no argument required)
        F - False (no argument required)
        N - Nil (no argument required)

optional arguments:
     -h - Shows this help message

Examples:
    oscchief send 192.168.0.10 7028 /osc/address ssiii some integers 10 12 786
    oscchief send 192.168.0.10 7028 /osc/address TTiFi 643 98
    oscchief send 192.168.0.10 7028 /osc/address
    oscchief send 192.168.0.10 7028 /osc/address TF
    oscchief listen 7028

R interface to oscchief

# Wrapper for system("oscchief send")
oscchief.send <- function (host="localhost", port=12345, osc="/") {
  osc <- gsub(",","",osc) # strip type tag comma for compatibility with oscchief
  command <- paste("oscchief send", host, port, osc)
  system(command)
}

# Define host and port
HOST <- "255.255.255.255" # this ip address means "all ip addresses on the local subnet"
LOCALHOST <- "localhost" # equivalent to "127.0.0.1", i.e. your own machine
PORT <- 6789 # recipient must listen on this port number.  Use any number in the thousands.

# Send OSC messages

oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC1)

oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC2)

oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC3)

oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC4)

oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC5)

Listen to OSC Messages coming from R over UDP

Listen in a terminal with osccheif:

Listen on port 6789

$ oscchief listen 6789

Listen in R, with a wrapper for oscchief?

## You might think you could write a wrapper for system("oscchief listen") like this, but...

# DO NOT RUN THIS IN R:
#    (DOES NOT RETURN MESSAGE TO R SESSION)
#    (NO WAY TO GRACEFULLY KILL LISTENER ONCE STARTED)
#
# oscchief.listen <- function (port=12346) {
#   command <- paste("oscchief listen", port)
#   system(command)
# }
# PORT <- 12346
# oscchief.listen(PORT)
#

Listen in Max https://cycling74.com/products/max

Note:

Max receives both doubles (int64) and 64-bit ints (int64) as 0.0, even in Max7 running in 64 bit mode.
Max receives floats (float32) correctly. TODO: Check code for udpsend. KLUDGE: Send doubles to Max as float32 (OSC Type “f”):

R Code (send to Max)

ADDRESS <- "/audio/1/foo"
DATA <- list(list(3:4,"apple"), TRUE, list(list(5.1,"foo"),NULL))
OSC <- oscMessage(address = address, data = data3, double = "f") # convert doubles to 32bit floats
HOST <- "localhost"
PORT <- 5678
oscchief.send(host=HOST, port=PORT, osc=OSC)

Max Code (listen)

Copy entire code block into empty Max patcher:

----------begin_max5_patcher----------
282.3ocoQsraBCCD7ryWgkOmhRLDBzekppJSxpViB1V9QZPH92qe1RendgKq
zNd1clY8kJD4fbALD7i3mvHzkJDJBE.P4dD4DaYXhYhzHB3c4gij5zSVXwFg
UZtvVPM1ySPDtfHbm3hIvF2QaFTwrCuwEu9hFFrIOP6W0Ti62Epq2DpT5pF7
y4I3iws5MvCzaVszYK6tI.dspJTpuuH4FUdiA7Y.2sseW48jX1yJHYYB4S6c
u4l1Ep62+e4t8uyc6M4NNFYhK94OaT3.92OFFoSOTRSVC7WhOBFKWvrbo3FN
zDmeIKSolAsISNJg+ZeTpCs80wVtH0tN1pgYdgeWDgo82Gq+33zoy4x1Mjzn
xQPKb7bj8Jes5CvurQJU
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------