Them wrote: > Hi, I've just migrated my studio over to Linux (whoohoo!) from > Windows/Finale/Cakewalk and need some more details on synchronization > between applications, specifically Ardour and Rosegarden4. The Ardour > manual is a little sparse in this area. > > Specifically, I am using Rosegarden to control a MIDI keyboard and a > MIDI drum machine which route their audio outputs into an external mixer > and then back into the DAW hardware (Audiophile 2496). Works great, of > course, with much less fuss than Finale or Cakewalk. My drums are > broken up into multiple tracks (one for kick drum, one for snare, etc), > so I can mix them separately as needed (the way you would with a real > drum kit). So I need to capture the audio coming into Ardour (will have > to record each track individually), which is easy enough to do, but I > need to make sure each track stays in synch with the other drum tracks > or I will have a bloody mess. The version of Cakewalk I used didn't > have SMPTE support, but I assume I will have to use something along > those lines. Ardour can send MTC. It's working in the elementary stages to sync my Linux DAW to the MIDI sequencer (an old Powermac running Logic 4). I haven't done any serious recording with it yet, just got it to start and stop when I say. -lee
