dssi_osc_send

NAME

dssi_osc_send - send OSC messages to DSSI applications.

SYNOPSIS

dssi_osc_send <option> <OSC URL> <values>

DESCRIPTION

dssi_osc_send sends DSSI OSC methods to DSSI applications. dssi_osc_send is typically used to control DSSI hosts (possibly for scripted operation), or to test DSSI user interfaces.

OPTIONS

-c

Send a ‘control’ message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: control port and value. For example, to set control port 1 to 0.1:

dssi_osc_send -c <OSC URL> 1 0.1

-p

Send a ‘program’ message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: bank and program number. For example, to select bank 0 program number 7:

dssi_osc_send -p <OSC URL> 0 7

-m

Send ‘midi’ message. Requires four numbers to be supplied in the <values> section. For example, to send a note on, middle C, velocity 64:

dssi_osc_send -m <OSC URL> 0 144 60 64

-C

Send a ‘configure’ message. The <values> are the key and value pair. For example, to send key ‘load’ and value ‘/tmp/patches.pat’:

dssi_osc_send -C <OSC URL> load /tmp/patches.pat

-s

Send a ‘show’ message.

dssi_osc_send -s <OSC URL>

-h

Send a ‘hide’ message.

dssi_osc_send -h <OSC URL>

-q

Send a ‘quit’ message.

dssi_osc_send -q <OSC URL>

-e

Send a ‘exiting’ message.

dssi_osc_send -e <OSC URL>

<OSC URL>

The URL to connect to. For example:
osc.udp://localhost:19383/dssi/test.1
osc.udp://my.host.org:10886/dssi/xsynth-dssi/Xsynth/chan00

SEE ALSO

dssi_osc_update(1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally created by Mark Hymers from the help text of the application, for the Debian project (but may be freely used by others).