[Ardour-Users] External sync from another DAW: Ardour song pointer should follow ?

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:49 PM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> When Ardour is synced externally via jack from another DAW it will
> start its transport when the other DAW starts. However, should the song
> pointer in Ardour also follow the external DAW song pointer ?
>
> For instance, they both start at 0, play for a few seconds then stop.
> Both DAWs will stop at 00:05. Now the external DAW behaves in such a
> way that when play is resumed, it will restart at 0. But Ardour will
> continue from 00:05.
>
> Should Ardour receive the song pointer information from the other DAW
> and restart at the same at 0 ?
>

if ardour is slaved to MIDI clock, it will pay attention to MIDI Song
Position Pointer messages. It will ignore them otherwisel.

You mentioned "synced externally via JACK", so ardour is ignoring MIDI SPP,
and is using jack transport to determine where it should be. If the other
DAW (unnamed, why?) is the transport master, then it needs to set the new
position ....
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