[Ardour-Dev] PD for Ardour

[John Delaney]

I don't know where Midi support is, yet, in Ardour, but this could
certainly solve that problem, though creating the musical score, this
would not do.
-JD
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/delaneyj/



On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, kevin <vacillates at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I articulated the same thoughts on the monome forum a few days ago,
> http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=6500&page=1#Item_12
>
> The tl;dr summary is that basically, a framework for PD and other similar
> open source tools (SuperCollider, ChucK, Processing, etc) to interface to
> Ardour is probably the most flexible design choice, and it would really 1-up
> Ableton in that it wouldn't just be limited to PD (like ableton is to max).
> Pd interfacing would probably entail writing a few externals to interface
> with the framework.
>
> And now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't be too hard to port
> those externals to Max/MSP for the OS X Ardour users, creating an unofficial
> Max for Ardour... Hmmm..
>
>
> BTW, I'm also very interested in getting involved developing this.
>
>
> - Kevin
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I am new to this list and I'm sure that this topic has been
>> addressed, but I thought I might bring up the idea, and in my free
>> time work to implement it.
>> I know that people are working for midi control for ardour... but what
>> if it went a step further, what if PD was embedded in Ardour to
>> control all midi events... or an OSC and Jack bridge (which could be
>> inititiated by a button in Jack) was established between the two
>> programs to do the same thing...
>>
>> A midi score window could be developed in PD that would serve as
>> Ardour's midi score, BPM and sound information could be passed between
>> the two programs.  A patch could be added to channels that would send
>> the data to the PD patch instantiated for the project which could
>> receive the audio feed at that point in the program.  Jack is being
>> implemented in PD as well as embedded open sound control.  I like the
>> idea of being able to put bangs on a midi score sheet that would
>> trigger PD patches running in the background.
>>
>> This may be a ridiculous idea, but I think compelling, especially in
>> light of Max for Ableton.
>> I am new to programming, but excited about the possibilities of adding
>> cool things to make cool things that already exist even cooler.
>>
>> -JD
>> http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/delaneyj/
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