OSC communication between Augustus and X Fade

[Axl]

Hi OS,

I've been trying to send an OSC message from Augustus Loop to X Fade Loop to sync their delay times without having to use Live 7's messed up midi syncing.

I put this in my Augustus script:

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sendOSC( "osc.udp://127.0.0.1:7001", "/set", "if", {69, loopLength})

where "loopLength" is the delay time.

But I'm only getting errors:

com.ableton.live[3124] std::runtime_error in TaskMain(): unable to bind udp socket

Interestingly, in one of my earlier attempts without the format argument I got the following error:

com.ableton.live[3082] error while parsing message: /set: wrong argument type

This suggests to me that the message was received by X Fade Loop at one time. Or am I wrong?

By the way, it seems the Console in Snow Leopard doesn't always post message updates immediately anymore which is a major pita when trying to debug my scripts. I haven't found anything about that on the web. Do you know any solution?

Cheers,
Axel

[os]

"com.ableton.live[3124] std::runtime_error in TaskMain(): unable to bind udp socket" indicates that you're trying to use the same port number for two different plug-ins.

Re. the console updates - I think I need to fix that at my end. Probably just a matter of flushing it somehow.

[Axl]

you're trying to use the same port number for two different plug-ins.

Thank you. This was indeed what I was doing. Would be an obvious thing to check first, I guess

Now I'm getting no error messages anymore. My script reads the delay time correctly. Yet, X Fade still doesn't react to my message. At the moment, it's not that important to get this going but in the future, I'd like to have Reaktor talk to Augustus and X Fade via OSC and I need to get the hang of this. Is my message formatted correctly?

[os]

It looks right. Maybe you should try sending a bogus /set message to get the "/set: wrong argument type" error again, to at least confirm you're sending to the right OSC port now.

[Axl]

So, I tried some things:

First, I changed the OSC message so it wasn't well formatted which made Live crash!

Then I put in a parameter id of 399 which gave me the message:

error while parsing message: /set: parameter id out of range in set

So, great! X Fade is receives the message.

Meanwhile, I tried to get a ping back by sending a /ping to X Fade from Supercollider. But Supercollider didn't let me format the message in the way you suggest in the manual.

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b.sendMsg("/ping", osc.udp://127.0.0.1:57120);

doesn't work. I have to put the address in inverted commas. When I do that the message gets sent but now I get this error from X Fade:

error while parsing message: /ping: missing argument

Aaaargh!

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I've now noticed there was indeed an argument missing. I added a return path and I don't get an error anymore but still no pingback from X Fade

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Oh, by the way, I also tried sending:

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sendOSC( "osc.udp://localhost:7001", "/set", "if", {40, 1.0})

and

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sendOSC( "osc.udp://localhost:7001", "/set", "if", {40, 0.0})

from Augustus which should make X Fade record. Again, no error, but also no recording.

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with this OSC thing.