[linux-audio-user] Re: [MusE] Re: Syncing muse with ardour

[Dave Phillips]

Martin Buechler wrote:

> hydrogen seems to understand only noteon/off, aka works as soft synth.
> That is what I could achieve so far in combination with muse. I never
> got control over hydrogen's transport :(

How did you get MusE to control Hydrogen at all ? I've tried a variety
of connections, I get no results.
 
> Ok, the other way around works 'sort of well'... Muse is able to mmc ardour!
> Here some pre-requisites, that I just found out:
> 1. Works only with newly created ardour sessions(1.0beta1-c), otherwise
> clicking 'MMC Control'  in ardour's options checkbox crashes ardour

I'm testing beta-e.

> 2. ~/.ardour.rc uses a raw virtual midi interface provided by
> snd-virmidi. BTW, why doesn't ardour appear as send/receive midi
> interface in kaconnect?

It's not an ALSA sequencer client.

> 3. the *same* virtual midi interface is configured as MIDI port in muse,
> and is configured under MIDI Sync as Master-MMC O-Port.
> 
> Though, transport is not reliably connected. Sometimes ardour seems to
> ignore the MMC sent by muse.

I was unable to make this setup work for me. :(

I have high hopes for the JACK transport control...

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips