[Ardour-Users] How realistic would it be to use Ardour as a control surface?

[Paul Davis]

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> There is the online low-latency software Jamulus <https://jamulus.io>
> that features a comparatively familiar mixer strip in its UI.  It has a
> primitive input-only optional Midi connection to a controller that only
> serves the volume faders.  The mixer strips, though, have mute and solo
> buttons and (depending on the mode) pan controls.
>
> The Jamulus server can create recordings of online session which it puts
> down in the form of .lof (Audacity session files) and .rpp (Reaper) as
> well as stem wavs.  It cannot serve them, however.
>
> The mixer strips are actually per-client, are communicated to the
> central server which then creates a mix particular to each client.  So
> basically every user gets to create his own mix from the _live_ stems.
>
> Now instead of teaching the Jamulus client more details about a
> wagonload of potentially suitable control surfaces, the cheap trick
> would be to teach it how to let Ardour do all the work and then pick up
> (and communicate back) the mixer strip settings from and to Ardour.
>
> Does Ardour do something like that?  Can two Ardour instances, for
> example, synchronise/share some mixer strips via OSC or, say, a Jack
> Midi connection?
>
> --
> David Kastrup
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