People often convert data from other protocols into OSC for reasons including easier network transport, homogeneity of message formats, compatibility with existing OSC servers, and the possibility of self-documenting symbolic parameter names.
Examples
- MIDI over OSC (e.g., for WAN performance). For example, Michael Zbyszynski's Remote MIDI patches for Max, C. Ramakrishnan's Occam (OSC->MIDI), G. Kling's Macco (MIDI->OSC, part of CSL).
- Converting "messy", "inconvenient" data from sensors to OSC format (e.g., for Sensor/Gesture-Based Electronic Musical Instruments)
