[ardour-dev] Re: [ardour-users] setting MTC device in Ardour

[Jesse Chappell]

You might want to join the ardour-dev mailing list too, as Paul Davis
is only subscribed to that.   I'm CCing this email there for now...

jlc

Geoff Beasley wrote on Wed, 03-Mar-2004:

 > Hi everyone. I'm going to be around here from now on. I am a Samplitude 
 > user, but since they've put an asio layer in it now it does some crazy
 > things and they've changed the community access etc.....so I'm not
 > happy.
 > I have a fully blown digital studio ( 4 pc's) producing everything from
 > albums to program music for video\film production, v'overs etc. Now,
 > that said, I'm sick of Samplitude and Windows, (7 years is enough) I
 > want JACK\ARDOUR  to be the core of my studio. What is sorely lacking
 > with all the apps under LINUX at the moment is effective SMPTE-MTC I\O.
 > Without it I'm finding it hard to intergrate into my environment. ARDOUR
 > does do MTC, but only 30 drop, is that correct ?  Is there / will there
 > be a way of changing that ? I have had a look at the ardour.rc file and
 > found some entries for the midi device. Can you tell me please how to
 > change the default midi device for MTC ? I have 2 cards installed in the
 > main DAW. The main card is a C-Port (ice1712) which apparently the midi
 > layer under ALSA is faulty. I need to use the alternate card for midi
 > comms. That is fine, but I'm not sure how-to swap the modules around. I
 > hope I can help in road-testing these fine apps and make them even
 > better. Paul, if all goes well, I may start building machines, with
 > ARDOUR/JACK etc pre-installed. If I do, I'll incorporate a licence fee
 > for you in such a package. Something to work on... good model for others
 > to follow perhaps when the dust settles on V 1 ?
 > 
 > Now, I know lotz about Windoze, but I'm only just begining with LINUX so
 > I'll probably be asking some stupid and annoying questions. But if
 > you'll bare with me, I promise I wont use the "f" word........
 > 
 > Cheers for now.
 > 
 > Geoff.
 > 
 > BTW, thanks for fixing the play-head issue. It now works fine.