Hallo good people
I am trying to send OSC from PD (to Sonic Pi), using the [netsend 1] object, it isn't working and I suspect the issue is with how I'm using that object. I have succesfully tested OSC within Sonic Pi (sending it out, then getting it back, all within SPi) and it works fine. receiving OSC in PD requires parsing from symbols to floats, but the helpfile for [netsend] simply shows, for example [send foo $1(.

#X text 21 10 Sonic Pi listens on port 4560;
#X msg 98 77 disconnect;
#X floatatom 209 120 5 0 0 0 - - -, f 5;
#X obj 153 155 * 0.01;
#X floatatom 62 299 5 0 0 0 - - -, f 5;
#X floatatom 143 120 5 0 0 0 - - -, f 5;
#X obj 155 261 print;
#X text 27 328 1 = port opened;
#X msg 119 189 send play \$1;
#X obj 62 256 netsend 1;
#X msg 23 38 connect localhost 4560;
#X connect 1 0 9 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
#X connect 3 0 8 0;
#X connect 5 0 8 0;
#X connect 8 0 6 0;
#X connect 8 0 9 0;
#X connect 9 0 4 0;
#X connect 10 0 9 0;

Thanks
Brendan

@brendanmac You need (in vanilla) to use [oscformat] to send a properly formatted osc message through [netsend], and [oscparse] to "decode" a received osc message from [netreceive].
A float as part of the message address can cause problems though, as it should contain only symbols
Here is a little help...... vanilla osc.zip
Or you can use the MrPeach library, which is a little easier.
David.

Thank you so much for your prompt and comprehensive response - that's a lovely little collection of tutorial patches, thank you so much - this is working perfectly now.

Brendan