Ossia Score

Ossia Score is a modern and complex piece of software specialized in intermedia authoring. Designed for users responsible with creating comprehensive art installations, live performances, or situations that require precise execution of timed events, this interactive sequencer allows users to create a wide range of flexible scenarios.

Ossia Score enables accurate scripting of precise scenarios, as well as provides users with the ability to fully control any OSC-compliant piece of software or hardware. Users can remote-control apps such as Max/MSP, Unity3D, OpenFrameworks, and Modul8, to name a few.

One of its main advantages is that it provides a great range of flexibility when it comes to time management. For example, users can set temporal or conditional relationships between multiple events, use creative loops to create interactive scenarios, and hierarchize the score. The application also has various interpolation and breakpoint features. For example, Ossia Score can automatically interpolate parameters’ values between events. It allows users to perform live-scripting using JavaScript.

Ossia Score is a complex application, but for a tool of this sort, it boasts a very clean and intuitive GUI. The app’s main window is comprised out of a typical toolbar, the Device Explorer on the left side, the Timeline panel in the middle, and the Objects Inspector on the right.

The Device explorer allows you to view your projects in a tree-like perspective, as well as displays all parameters and their current values. The Timeline panel where users can write the scenario handling the commands provided to your device. The panel also provides the possibility of adding some audio synthesis or processing. Last but not least, the Objects inspector is the place users can explore and select elements from in their scenario’s structure (events, triggers, intervals), as well as display and edit parameters of the currently selected object.

Ossia Score is an innovative, open-source intermedia sequencer that appeals to the advanced media creator responsible with the design of live performances and such matters that require the precise execution of timed events.