"otoh. you could just have klick running standalone, responding to JACK transport at large, I don't really see the need to hack the qtractor source to launching it inline, or am I missing the point?"
To run "klick" as standalone I would need either to run it by GUI GtkKlick, but this doesn't follow JACK transport and it doesn't seem to have any option to set it up to follow JACK transport. Also, if it could do, it would force me to enter the menu to run it each time I want to use the metronome. The other way would be to run "klick" by entering "klick -j -P" into a terminal. Both of this options is a waste of time on a long term use. Also I don't like to run programs by a terminal command, except for debugging, compiling, development etc.
Apart from a few tasks, using the terminal to run programs is the ugliest way for a good workflow. ;)
Having that one-liner added (which calls my script) makes me able to start/quit "klick" from within Qtractor's main window.
From my point of view and use of Qtractor it's just the best solution to have a good working metronome running in addition to Qtractor. No extra GUI on the desktop, no extra program in the task bar, no terminal running which would immediately close the program if the terminal was accidentally closed.
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I'm not asking how to check if either audio metronome or midi metronome is active. I'm asking how to check, if the metronome option (the button for parameter transport/Metronome in config file) is active/de-active.
Hi.
"otoh. you could just have klick running standalone, responding to JACK transport at large, I don't really see the need to hack the qtractor source to launching it inline, or am I missing the point?"
To run "klick" as standalone I would need either to run it by GUI GtkKlick, but this doesn't follow JACK transport and it doesn't seem to have any option to set it up to follow JACK transport. Also, if it could do, it would force me to enter the menu to run it each time I want to use the metronome. The other way would be to run "klick" by entering "klick -j -P" into a terminal. Both of this options is a waste of time on a long term use. Also I don't like to run programs by a terminal command, except for debugging, compiling, development etc.
Apart from a few tasks, using the terminal to run programs is the ugliest way for a good workflow. ;)
Having that one-liner added (which calls my script) makes me able to start/quit "klick" from within Qtractor's main window.
From my point of view and use of Qtractor it's just the best solution to have a good working metronome running in addition to Qtractor. No extra GUI on the desktop, no extra program in the task bar, no terminal running which would immediately close the program if the terminal was accidentally closed.
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I'm not asking how to check if either audio metronome or midi metronome is active. I'm asking how to check, if the metronome option (the button for parameter transport/Metronome in config file) is active/de-active.