# OSC?

What is OSC?   
Why should you use it?   
How can you use it?   
Check out this short video

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Dive deeper &amp; see a giant list of apps that use OSC?  
Check out the [wikipedia page on OSC ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control)

and of course [https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/](https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/)

- For a more detailed explanation of how OSC works, please see the specifications: [Spec\_1.0](https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/spec-1_0.html) &amp; [Spec\_1.1](https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/spec-1_1.html)
- Browse the implementations (as a [list of web pages](https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/page-list.html#implementations) or a [huge TSV file](https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/implementations.tsv)) to discover the many kinds of things that can send OSC to each other.