for that purpose, i wrote a small externals that connects with jack transport, you can find it in the cvs in externals/tb/jack_transport ... it requires pd devel_0_39, though, because it's using the idle callbacks for synchronization ... also, it's completely undocumented, iirc, it supports 'start', 'stop' and 'bang'...
Are you sure that this is only for devel, I just tried it and it seems to work without a problem on standard pd too.
oh, i just wrote it from memory ... seems that i was wrong ... i just had a brief look at the sources again, it's completely synchronous, so it doesn't depend on the fifo api from devel ...
so yes, it should run fine with vanilla pd ...
thanks for trying! tim
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