[linux-audio-user] Song (i.e. project) managers ?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:51 -0400, lanas wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>   Now that I got some things running (jack, Zyn, Hydrogen and Ardour)
> not int he best of ways, but still, I get fun from trying this and thus
> doing little jams.  I reckon that I have a lot more to learn and would
> eventually like to use Studio64 (now using CCRMA) to take most benefit
> from the machine.
> 
>   So now that I do some jams using accoustic guitar and software-based
> sounds, I start to wonder if there are any song (i.e. project) managers
> out there that could, say, launch all apps with the proper settings
> according to a song ?
> 
>   Better yet.  We have MIDI.  This is quite a standard that everyone
> seems to adhere to.  We have Jack. Now, is there a standard means to IPC
> between audio apps ?  Such that a song manager could IPC (and
> eventually launch apps that are not running) to the various apps used
> for song, setting along the way the parameters for each app through
> IPC ?
> 
>   Such a song manager could, using this standardized IPC, get a dump of
> relevant settings from all apps contributing to a song project and save
> that to disk to be recalled at a later time.  Project templates could
> also be made.
> 
>   So, are there any utilities like that out there ?  Is it possible to
> IPC to at least some of the audio apps out there ?

LASH is a "session manager" that some (but not all) apps already
support. It is supposed to do what you need but I have not tested it
personally. 

-- Fernando