Thanks Nils, that does help. It's pretty much what I had in mind. I just wasn't aware of jack_transport.
Out of curiosity, what keys do you bind each of those actions to?
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9:47 PM
From: "Nils Hilbricht" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [non] Convient way to manage transport start/stop without having to focus windows?
From: "Nils Hilbricht" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [non] Convient way to manage transport start/stop without having to focus windows?
I hope this helps:
I don't know where I got the command line program "jack_transport" by
Jeremy Hall, maybe it is included in Jack itself.
With this program I have made four "global" hotkeys through my Window
Manager.
They are, in this order: play, jump to start, pause/resume, stop
bash -c 'echo play | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo locate 0 | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo toggle | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo stop | jack_transport'
Greetings,
Nils
On 04/23/2018 10:15 PM, J. Liles wrote:
> What window /do/ you have focused? You can start/stop the JACK
> transport with any JACK client... Including commandline ones. So, if
> you *really* wanted a global keybinding, you could use xbindkeys or
> your window manager's own hotkey system to invoke the appropriate
> command to start or stop the transport.
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:36 AM, "Aodhan Ó Cuinn"
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> The one thing that catches me out every time I work with the Non
> suite is that if I don't have Non-timeline or the sequencer in
> focus, I can't start/stop the transport with the space bar. Is
> there a solution/workaround to this problem that other users use
> so that the transport can be accessed at all times via the keyboard?
>
>
I don't know where I got the command line program "jack_transport" by
Jeremy Hall, maybe it is included in Jack itself.
With this program I have made four "global" hotkeys through my Window
Manager.
They are, in this order: play, jump to start, pause/resume, stop
bash -c 'echo play | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo locate 0 | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo toggle | jack_transport'
bash -c 'echo stop | jack_transport'
Greetings,
Nils
On 04/23/2018 10:15 PM, J. Liles wrote:
> What window /do/ you have focused? You can start/stop the JACK
> transport with any JACK client... Including commandline ones. So, if
> you *really* wanted a global keybinding, you could use xbindkeys or
> your window manager's own hotkey system to invoke the appropriate
> command to start or stop the transport.
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:36 AM, "Aodhan Ó Cuinn"
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> The one thing that catches me out every time I work with the Non
> suite is that if I don't have Non-timeline or the sequencer in
> focus, I can't start/stop the transport with the space bar. Is
> there a solution/workaround to this problem that other users use
> so that the transport can be accessed at all times via the keyboard?
>
>
