Re: [Traverso-devel] jack transport control

[Remon]

Hi,

Thanks all for the feedback!

I've been dubbing how to handle transport control with respect to the record 
button, since there are 2 cases, one where traverso handles the transport 
control itself, and one where it is a client of jack.

Now as some of you pointed out, the 'default' behavior of applications is to:

1) arm a track
2) set the 'state' of the application to recording by hitting the record 
button
3) hit the play button to actually start recording...

In my humble opinion, if the program transport is not controlled from another 
application, 2 and 3 can be merged into 1, the state becomes recording, and 
the transport starts in one go.
This is how it behaved until now, but adding jack transport control makes this 
impossible....

Switching between the behavior "if jack client and transport control enabled, 
then hitting the record button only sets the state to recording" and "we 
control transport ourselves and hitting the record button start transport 
directly" seems like a bad idea.

So, currently (cvs) it behaves in both situation the same, hitting the record 
button toggles the state to 'recordable', and you have to hit the spacebar 
afterward to actually start recording!

To still have the good things of both worlds, CTRL+ <spacebar> sets the state 
to recordable and starts transport! (either being a jack client or not!)

It's in cvs so please test it out, and if you encounter anything strange, let 
me know, with a description how to reproduce the problem.
(Due the changes to the audio backend, you _have_ to do a cleancompile!)
Or if you think it should behave differently, let me know too!

Jack transport control is disabled by default, see the Audio Driver config 
page, select Jack driver, and check "Enable Jack transport control"


If nothing shows up, I'd like to release this new feature with 0.40.1


Regards,

Remon