It&#x27;s covered: &quot;On the other hand UDP can suffer from packet loss and OSC is an obscure protocol&quot;. If you need something UDP doesn&#x27;t handle, then it makes sense to use something else, but a lot of time is being wasted using something like TCP if you don&#x27;t need the things it does. With live sound, milliseconds count and it doesn&#x27;t take a skilled ear to hear when things are even a little later than they should be. It might even be better to have no sound than a late sound.