On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:51 -0400, lanas wrote: > Folks, > > Now that I got some things running (jack, Zyn, Hydrogen and Ardour) > not int he best of ways, but still, I get fun from trying this and thus > doing little jams. I reckon that I have a lot more to learn and would > eventually like to use Studio64 (now using CCRMA) to take most benefit > from the machine. > > So now that I do some jams using accoustic guitar and software-based > sounds, I start to wonder if there are any song (i.e. project) managers > out there that could, say, launch all apps with the proper settings > according to a song ? > > Better yet. We have MIDI. This is quite a standard that everyone > seems to adhere to. We have Jack. Now, is there a standard means to IPC > between audio apps ? Such that a song manager could IPC (and > eventually launch apps that are not running) to the various apps used > for song, setting along the way the parameters for each app through > IPC ? > > Such a song manager could, using this standardized IPC, get a dump of > relevant settings from all apps contributing to a song project and save > that to disk to be recalled at a later time. Project templates could > also be made. > > So, are there any utilities like that out there ? Is it possible to > IPC to at least some of the audio apps out there ? LASH is a "session manager" that some (but not all) apps already support. It is supposed to do what you need but I have not tested it personally. -- Fernando
