Re: [LAD] jack transport change accuracy for looping

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hiddenwrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists@email-addr-hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > Just wondering if I understand this correctly. I making a loop based
>> app for
>> > step sequencing. When I previously did this in Csound, I clocked it off
>> a
>> > phasor, so the timing was sample accurate ( but that brought all it's
>> own
>> > issues to be sure ). I'm wondering whether I should do the same thing in
>> > jack app, or use the jack transport clock, or some hybrid.
>>
>> there was a proposal many (*many*) years ago from jesse chappell that
>> fully covered looping with JACK. it was never implemented. as it
>> stands, it is not possible to get seamless looping with jack
>> transport. in practice it might sound right for a given user with a
>> given set of clients, but change any aspect of the configuration and
>> it would no longer be seamless.
>>
>
>
Also, is that proposal a dead duck now? Seems to me like if it worked, it
would be a pretty killer feature given the popularity of the Ableton Live
style of working these days.

Has anyone else looked into it since then?

thanks
iain

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