On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com> wrote:

It seems that the lack of interest in adding similar functionality to JACK
has opened up a gap in the "market".

there was no lack of interest, but rather an inability to come up with an abstraction for defining loops and musical time that could be widely used.

Ableton have now done that, albeit by circumventing the hardest parts of the problem (a tempo map with varying meter and tempo).