[LAU] jack MIDI and transport control

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:58:58AM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> wrote:
> > Pity. :-( I'll have to circumvent this then. But thanks for the quick
> > response!
> 
> Perhaps you can write a JACK midi client that reads the start and stop
> messages and issues jack_transport_start() or jack_transport_stop(),
> as desired?
> 
> If written as a small stand-alone client, that would be an appropriate
> candidate for an example client in the JACK distribution.

It's got to be less than 100 lines of code total.

JACK transport start/stop are each just a single C function call.

I'm not familiar with the JACK MIDI API but I'm guessing that checking for MIDI start/stop shouldn't be more than a few lines of code.

-ken