Osmose 2.x Software update

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Expressive E have shipped version 2.0 of the Osmose software/firmware. We can use this thread to talk about specifics of Osmose interfacing with the new changes.

  • The EM Firmware appears to be still at 10.09, but the Osmose-side firmware is new, obviously. Not sure how to best differentiate the 2 firmware on the Osmose when communicating: perhaps EM Firmware vs Osmose Firmware is sufficient.

  • The Haken Editor included in the 2.0 update is apparently a modified version of the editor (according to RK).

    Is this a forked line of development for the HE, or does the 10.38 editor include the EE modifications?

  • RK and others on the forums have reported that preset enumeration by the User and System preset requests. (ch16 cc109, 32 (user) and 39 (system) no longer work. It doesn’t appear that EE have published a means to enumerate presets.

    EE could fix this in a backward-compatible way by recognizing these requests and returning the same format for preset info as before – only the cc0, cc32, pg numbers change. When the post 10.09 FW comes to Osmose, I’d expect the corresponding change in the data streams (i.e. 10.09: 1 char per channel pressure vs new 2 chars per polyphonic Key Pressure).

So this raises a lot of questions about future direction of EE with regards to 3rd party support. Are there any plans from EE to fully support external software/controllers? Or, are they going to only expose the minimal subset like they have done so far? At some point, if they continue this path, I’ll have to abandon supporting Osmose, which would be a shame.

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This seems as good a place as any to say that 2.1 is now available.

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@Anckorage , is the Haken Editor (10.52) the same in Osmose and Haken Audio distribution?
i.e. one build/version supports both continuum and osmose (again ;))

Osmose has same folder name, so Im hoping they have been re-aligned, so I dont need two copies of the editor on my Macs.

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Yes, it is the exact same (copied from the Haken drive)

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Anyone tried Loris with it yet? I did previous buy Loris and tried it with a ContinuuMini, but I havent got round to creating any impressive analysis files with it yet. I did establish that Loris connects to the Osmose OK, but didnt have anything to hand to actually upload into an analysis slot.

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I’ve been experimenting with loris/Osmose the last few days. It really open new possibilities and I managed to get some timbres that takes apart for the kind of sounds I used to get from Osmose ( eaganmatrix). But is not as immediate, it really requires a lot of experimentation and polishing the resulting analisys until you get something playable.
Here is patch just finished yesterday:

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