[ardour-users] sync ardour and rosegarden

[Jason Russler]

I usually use MusE for MIDI & Ardour.  It's not as fancy but is more
predictable than Rosegarden.

On 12/12/05, Phil Frost <indigo at bitglue.com> wrote:
> Since ardour does not yet have midi tracks (hint hint), I am attempting
> to get rosegarden and ardour transports to sync. I have tried several
> configurations, which all fail in one way or another.
>
> Jack Transport. Rosegarden works, mostly, but ardour behaves
> sporadically. The playhead jumps a bar backwards every 2 bars, or won't
> play at all. If rosegarden is also running, the playhead rapidly jumps
> between the position it was stopped and the start of the timeline when I
> hit 'stop' in ardour. Bug 1163 in mantis
> <http://ardour.org/mantis/view.php?id=1163>.
>
> MMC, MTC, ardour as master. This works pretty well, except I can't get
> rosegarden to record as ardour plays. Enabling record in ardour has no
> effect on rosegarden, although the transports do otherwise sync. Hitting
> record in rosegarden de-syncs the transports.
>
> MMC, MTC, rosegarden as master. This almost works too, except that
> aparently rosegarden sends MMC play every few seconds, which ardour
> thinks means "toggle play". I can not find any spec, but MMC does have
> "play" and "stop" commands, which makes me inclined to believe play
> should not toggle. Furthermore, if it toggled and the command were ever
> lost, some device would forever be in the wrong state, which seems like
> a really dumb design even for midi.
>
> Has anyone had success getting ardour and rosegarden (CVS versions of
> each) to sync? If so, how?
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