[enhancement] JACK transport support

[DoosC]

In addition to issue "[enhancement] Special midi plugins #522 " and in order to fully exploit the midi capability of LMMS, it would be a great benefit to have a "JACK transport" enabled LMMS. In fact this would allow for synchronisation with external devices such as LV2 hosts (such as Carla). With this, LMMS would allow users to benefit from both the modular and integrated approach, best of both worlds :)

[grammoboy2]

Best of both worlds, +1

[tresf]

Consolidated to #1467, "Better JACK support" issue.

Edit: Partial support has been proposed/drafted here #1467 (comment).

[SrAndersj]

En verdad necesito poder sincronizar lmms con Ardour haciendo que lmms sea esclavo del tiempo de qjackctl

[lorenzosu]

Hi, I see this has been closed long ago with pointers to rather old issues.

AFAIK Jack Transport is not yet functional in LMMS, and believe it is still valuable in various situations.

I also understand this is included in #1467 but I think that issue is too general and personally as a (Linux) I don't think all have the same priority (e.g. Jack on Windows or jack-midi).

I would like to see this specific feature re-opened. The rationale is LMMS is still a very valuable App for certain types of music-making and workflows on Linux, e.g. its Beat/Bassline, the capability of working with samples and plugings in a very 'quick' way and setting up patterns.
At the same time it lacks capabilities such as advanced audio recording / automation / busses / midi editing which other applications which do use Jack Transport have. For instance combining Ardour and LMMS would be great and would cover a full 'song' production / mixing.