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Spaces and Nodes for media data controls and organisation

Description

The Span project is a kind of CMS (Content Management Software) for media instruments.
It works with the notion of a "project" which could be highly customized, run local patches and/or use distant existing namespace (in localhost or with a network).
It has a powerfull mapping engine and is natively (OSC) Open Sound Control. It could be used with a lot of protocols such as OSC, MIDI, DMX, ARTNET, SERIAL, VISCA, PJLINK, MINUIT, COPERLAN and more…

The project

A SPAN project file is a JSON that has multiple indexes and dictionaries. This format has been chosen for its speed and simplicity. However, a special syntax is needed, and we could use this online viewer to read it or another JSON viewer. A lot of little utilities should be easily found over the web.

A central database

All the requests are done in a single place.

Installation

Span abstraction is the only thing you need to put in the patch to have the span environnement ready.

Features

• Open-Sound-Control communication
  • Multicast - Unicast - Broadcast
• Project-manager
  • files and folder handling
  • tags and custom taxonomy
• Multi-mapping
  • One-to-Many mapping
  • Multi-modes mapping
• Events manager
  • Polyphonic cues player
• Namespace Manager
  • Description files loading
  • Namespace-learning

Wiki pages

default-span-database : What is SPAN database on load.