Hi Members,
I became interested in OSC controller development for Renoise in real live performance environment - on Android in one side and Windows PC on other side.
What is your best practices to get the best performance and experience from OSC - PC connection?
On Android, the simplest way is TouchOSC. Enough limited for kick off most complication: on Android, now you can use only UDP over network for communication. Developer (Hexler) announced that they will enable MIDI over USB class-compliant device later, but now it’s not possible.
My setup is a PC, Android phone and Android tablet.
Here are some practice for this situation:
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Create dedicated network! If your phone has Android version > 3.x, sure you can make Wifi Hotspot. Switch off other radios (GSM/Bluetooth/NFC/GPS) and let your PC and tablet the only participants.
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Let the hotspot server (phone) next to the tablet and PC. Near radios make less error in the communication.
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Shut down all application on PC side - create different firewall preset which enables only Renoise to communicate, but better if absolutely no other software running which have to use network.
With this practice I was able to make a nice 5-8ms latency, wich is, if you are not a keyboardist, enough to perform realtime control over your live setup. However, I’m curious if I get off the phone from the setup, and let the tablet make ad-hoc network, could it be faster?
Any other suggestions, ideas?
Thanks,
Grassfield
