Dear all,
As some other people on LAU might have noticed a while back I tried to
open a discussion on LAU about jack freewheele as a way to more easily
interoperate between jack applications, the scenario being e.g.
composing in Rosegarden (which as you know if my favourite sequencer and
composition tool) using external synths/hosts (e.g. like Yoshimi but
also e.g. linuxsampler or Carla) and then 'exporting' the result to
audio 'faster than realtime'. [0][1]
I also started a similar discussion specifically in the yoshimi mailing
list (yoshimi also being a synth I heavily use in tandem with
Rosegarden)...
If I understand correctly freewheeling is currently mostly used in DAWs
such as Ardour or Qtractor for exporting a whole session. Cadence-Render
[1] also seems to use this mechanism.
From the various discussions and reading documentation online it really
seems that in order for freewheeling to work one mainly needs:
- JACK transport (I think in 'slave' mode)
- jack-midi
So the the question is: would it be time to think about jack-midi
support in Rosegarden?
There is also another side point that might be relevant here: the more
time passes the more the DSSI and LADSP olny plugin support in
rosegarden become obsolete. Personally I wouldn't be pushing for, say,
LV2 or (Linux) VST supports *in* Rosegarden, for me connecting
Rosegarden to external synths and hosts works just fine (better I would
say), as I like the idea for composing, *sequencing* and midi, which are
a different beast compared to say audio editing. But... maybe an upgrade
to jack-midi would help making Rosegarden easier to interconnect and use
more of the available hosts, synths etc.
Just some ideas :)
[0]
http://jackaudio.org/files/docs/html/group__ServerControl.html#gad65c741a1d1d2fb09efacf51437b841a
[1]
https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2016-November/thread.html#106691
[2]
https://www.freelists.org/post/yoshimi/Crazy-feature-idea-Offline-wav-file-generation-from-midi-and-state-file
[3] https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Cadence-Render
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