[LAU] Audio app which supports RT Jack Transport bpm changes

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 07:37:00 EST 2010


Arnold Krille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 04 January 2010 11:28:31 rosea grammostola wrote:
>   
>> Is there an audio app which supports Jack Transport bpm changes in
>> realtime? I know some midi apps like hydrogen and non-sequencer, but not
>> audio apps which can play and/or record audio.
>>     
>
> Last time I looked (two years back sadly), even hydrogen did the bpm changes 
> wrong. On a new bpm it would recalculate the position from the beginning of 
> playtime with the new bpm. Which meant missing beats...
>
> It would be pretty cool if jack had functions to do the time<->beat 
> calculation but sadly most jack developers seem to think that tempo and tempo-
> maps (not even live) do not belong into jack...
>
There is a discussion about Jack Transport now on jack-devel...

One result of it is that the limitations of Jack Transport are written down:

http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/TransportLimitations

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