14 Dec
2008
14 Dec
'08
8:03 a.m.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:31:53AM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
Hi!
Ecasound is good. Have been using it myself for years now.
Yes the thought of syncing ecasound to MIDI is there. But the clock thing
won't be here for a while. Which is a pity, I'm looking forward to it myself.
BUT: The midi-sequencer midish is looking for a way. And that way would most
certainly be put into an external application first. So you could probably
just try to use it, when it's there.
The idea is to translate MIDI clock to jack transport timing events. I don't
know how this is coming along, but it's higher on the midish list, than
MIDI-syncing is on ecasound's.
this cant work. jack-transport is running at the same speed as the
soundcard audio clock. All you can do, is stop it, and restart, at a new
position. But starting takes an undefined time in the presence of
slow-sync clients.
You can make that work for light weight clients. But ecasound is also a
slow sync client.
So all you can do is slave your midi gear to jack transport.
and of course interpret start-stop commands from the midi-gear.
An app that generates midiclock from jack-transport should be quite
trivial though.
--
torben Hohn