Re: [Jack-Devel] The Situation(s) With JACK
On 12/10/2011 12:33 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:58:00PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> STOPPED and RUNNING can't accomodate slow-sync clients.
>
> 1. Stopped, Rolling and Starting are incomplete as well.
>
> It's impossible to find out if everybody is ready to
> start on cue without actually trying it and risk failure.
> There should be a 4th state, 'Locating' or so, to allow a
> client to indicate that it is not yet ready (and then
> 'Stopped' implies readyness of course, just as 'Rolling'
> does.).
>
> 2. It should be possible to have more than one transport
+1
> state.
Oh :)
> For at least 3 concerts this year I had two or more
> players (Ardour) which needed their transport synced with
> e.g. effects sequencers, and which were used at the same
> time but independent of each other. Had to hack something
> using audio ports to transfer data.
A few years back I was proposing to have additional transport/time
information per audio port.
Basically each track could have its own transport or be linked with an
offset to the main transport.
robin
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