oscr

oscr

A Read Eval Print loop for Open Sound Control messages

Installation

$ npm install -g oscr

Usage

Specify outgoing host and port.

$ oscr -h localhost -p 7777

Specify an incoming port to log OSC messages.

$ oscr -h localhost -p 7777 -i 8000

Then enter some OSC messages.

> /hello iii 1 2 3  # <path> <type-tag> <args>

Surround arguments in quotes to preserve spaces.

> /say ss "hello world" '\"something\" in quotes'
{ path: '/say',
  typetag: 'ss',
  params: [ 'hello world', '"something" in quotes' ] }

Snoop

The snoop argument can be used to help debug communication. It will log all incoming messages and immediately redirect them to the outgoing host and port.

$ oscr -h localhost -p 8000 -i 9999 -s

Tricks

You can use any valid javascript expression as an argument.

> ['','foo','moo'].join('/') "Array(4).join('f') + 'i'" 3-2 "1 + 1" 1*3 Date.now()
{ path: '/foo/moo',
  typetag: 'fffi',
  params: [ 1, 2, 3, 1393227357969 ] }

Not that you would want to do this, though...