[jpereira]

I just downloaded Ardour (after trying it out a while back and somewhat giving up) and it's a pretty fantastic application.

What prompted me to get into it again was that I wanted to combine it with Hydrogen (http://hydrogen-music.org/hcms/) using JACK (http://www.jackaudio.org/).

I can _immediately_ see the power of JACK, but I just can't get my immediate use to work, which is when I hit play/pause in one application, the other starts as well.

In general though the potential in JACK just seems awesome, it's almost as intuitive as just routing patch cables in meatspace and I can't wait to get into it more. It also seems like something that'd be brilliant for a touch-screen.

I'm considering setting up another partition just for audio work.

[tchaffee]

> which is when I hit play/pause in one application, the other starts as well.

Is this the problem you are trying to avoid, or what you are trying to achieve? Assuming you want the play button in Hydrogen to start the other apps, you need to use the "J-TRANS" and "J-MASTER" buttons at the top of Hydrogen. In Ardour there is a toggle button for "Internal" or "JACK" and you need to set it to JACK.

[pawadu]

> when I hit play/pause in one application, the other starts as well.

This should work automatically. If not 50/50 chance you can blame it on Lennart Poettering:

http://jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html

:)

[karlgrz]

I always used hydrogen as just a drum sampler, and did all the midi work in ardour. I have since switched back to cubase / superior drummer 2 for most stuff, but I still have a subscription for ardour.