[linux-audio-user] Synchronization

[lee]

Them wrote:
> Hi, I've just migrated my studio over to Linux (whoohoo!) from 
> Windows/Finale/Cakewalk and need some more details on synchronization 
> between applications, specifically Ardour and Rosegarden4.  The Ardour 
> manual is a little sparse in this area.
> 
> Specifically, I am using Rosegarden to control a MIDI keyboard and a 
> MIDI drum machine which route their audio outputs into an external mixer 
> and then back into the DAW hardware (Audiophile 2496).  Works great, of 
> course, with much less fuss than Finale or Cakewalk.  My drums are 
> broken up into multiple tracks (one for kick drum, one for snare, etc), 
> so I can mix them separately as needed (the way you would with a real 
> drum kit).  So I need to capture the audio coming into Ardour (will have 
> to record each track individually), which is easy enough to do, but I 
> need to make sure each track stays in synch with the other drum tracks 
> or I will have a bloody mess.  The version of Cakewalk I used didn't 
> have SMPTE support, but I assume I will have to use something along 
> those lines.

Ardour can send MTC. It's working in the elementary stages to sync my 
Linux DAW to the MIDI sequencer (an old Powermac running Logic 4). I 
haven't done any serious recording with it yet, just got it to start and 
stop when I say.

-lee