[Ardour-Users] Ardour and Jack question

[Al Thompson]

Here's a question which I decided to ask here, since people here would
most understand what I want to do, and will probably have suggestions.

The scenario is that I have two machines: my main machine, a desktop,
and a laptop.  I want to run Ardour and a MIDI sequencer on my desktop,
sending the MIDI out to my laptop to control a softsynth (Bristol), and
send the audio out from Bristol back to the desktop - over IP. 

I currently have jack 0.109 on both machines, which I gather won't do
this.  In googling the issue, it looks like either jacknone (jack2?) or
jack 0.118 will do this.  However, when I try to compile 0.118, it tells
me that I must first remove my earlier jack installation, and when I try
to do this, yum wants to uninstall nearly every piece of software on my
computer "for dependencies."  So, I figured I'd try jacknone, which
won't compile.  It gives a cryptic "err #1" and exits, and a Google
search on this is no help whatsoever.

I also tried aseqnet, which looked like it might work for the MIDI data,
but I've had no luck getting it to send any actual MIDI data between
machines.

Is what I want to do even possible?  If it is, can anyone give me a hint
on how to install jack 0.118 on my machines without having to uninstall
everything on them (including kde!) and start from scratch??


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Check out the website I've been cobbling together.  It will never be done, but it's a start: 
http://lateralforce.no-ip.org


My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at:
http://audioandmore.wordpress.com

 
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