# Can OSC pilot handle two arguments: Buttons yes/Faders&Text No

**URL:** https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/can-osc-pilot-handle-two-arguments-buttons-yes-faders-text-no/753
**Category:** OSC/PILOT General Discussion
**Created:** [May 5, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/can-osc-pilot-handle-two-arguments-buttons-yes-faders-text-no/753 "2023-05-05T00:32:42Z")
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### Author: ![Nowiamone](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.oscpilot.com/nowiamone/32/261_2.png) [@Nowiamone](https://forum.oscpilot.com/u/Nowiamone)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/can-osc-pilot-handle-two-arguments-buttons-yes-faders-text-no/753/1 "2023-05-05T00:32:42Z")

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Hello, I m still struggling to understand using osc adresses and arguments, so please forgive me, if i m now asking the same as has been asked here: [Receive Float value for a specific Integer](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/receive-float-value-for-a-specific-integer/745).

So here’s the question:  
How do i put 2 arguments into osc/pilot?  
Thanks to a nice helping guy from Ableton Osc i found out, that the correct way to communicate with Ableton Osc is like this (screenshot from touch osc):

 ![Screenshot_20230505_022247_TouchOSC](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/oscpilot/original/1X/fa99293a4d06e8ed92637ef6498c8b6e62b1415c.jpeg)

But i can’t find a way of typing this into osc/pilots Extra arg field  
“1 1”  
“1, 1”  
“[1, 1]”  
Nothing works. Is it even possible with osc pilot to send messages like this?

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### Author: ![Nowiamone](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.oscpilot.com/nowiamone/32/261_2.png) [@Nowiamone](https://forum.oscpilot.com/u/Nowiamone)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/can-osc-pilot-handle-two-arguments-buttons-yes-faders-text-no/753/2 "2023-05-05T13:23:55Z")

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Update: i researched what is actually being sent via protokol  
So this is was is being sent out by Touch OSC [and it works, in Ableton]

 ![touch osc 1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/oscpilot/original/1X/0cb4658def1f9221e6e210835fd1057faa8ea4bc.jpeg)

And this is what is being sent out by OSC Pilot. Two differences: a) it’s not a string message, but a int message. b) there is a additional Float message being sent.

 ![osc wrong](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/oscpilot/original/1X/c3acd87a23000e3ec84579d370778ba3a309e02f.jpeg)

Now i found out that a) is not the problem. Because it can be string or integer, it doesn’t matter. The problem was b) the additional Float message.  
By trial&error i found out that by deleting OSC OFF and OSC ON values, no float will be sent - only the integers. Then it works, controlling AbletonOSC

 ![osc 1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/oscpilot/original/1X/edec66b70d3cbc961c2007a96a2fdb4911e686d1.jpeg)

EDIT: I also found out that Faders and Text boxes can’t handle any arguments at all, so i made a feature request 🙂[FeatureRequest: OSC args for Faders and Textbox](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/featurerequest-osc-args-for-faders-and-textbox/754)

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### Author: ![malcolm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.oscpilot.com/malcolm/32/19_2.png) [@malcolm](https://forum.oscpilot.com/u/malcolm)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.oscpilot.com/t/can-osc-pilot-handle-two-arguments-buttons-yes-faders-text-no/753/3 "2023-05-07T22:28:10Z")

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Right, the float message is the actual button event, which will be appended to your message, unless you put it somewhere else in there via a #