[Ardour-Dev] ardour3 and tranzport?

[Giso Grimm]

On 03/28/2011 10:15 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Giso Grimm <gg3137 at vegri.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just had my first look at ardour3: It looks great, it was a pleasure
>> to play with it. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Just out of curiosity: Are there plans to add Frontier Tranzport support
>> via the kernel driver? The kernel driver for 2.x works very well, much
>> better than the user space driver included in all 2.x releases.
>>
>> If there is anything I can do - testing, bug reporting, debugging, or
>> (re-)coding - I would be happy to do so.
> 
> someone needs to pick it up and run with it.  tranzport support has
> never been good at all the required levels
> (code/installability/function/documentation). if the kernel driver
> works then it needs to properly documented and then an evaluation done
> on the a3 code to support it (surface support code design changed a
> little bit from a2 to a3). but basically, it really needs someone who
> will take control of it from top to bottom.

ok, if nobody else is working on it anymore I will try to make it work
here, and come back to it when I am successful (no deadline promises
though).

- Giso