Hello everyone. I would like to ask if there’s a way to control Ardour’s Transport using regular HTTP requests? I need to be able to start/stop (toggle roll) and, importantly, jump to a certain time.
Some background: I had previously used Ardour with MuseScore3 with transport sync via JACK for transcribing music: it still works wonderfully, I can toggle playback in MuseScore or jump to any position and these changes are mirrored in Ardour.
Recently I tried to switch to MuseScore 4, as it has a lot of new features that I’d like to use in my transcription workflow. Unfortunately, I found out that the developers of MuseScore have removed the support for JACK.
So I started to look for a solution. I know that it is possible to write your own QML plugins for MuseScore, and it’s been pointed out to me that there exist a couple of plugins that syncronize VLC with MuseScore. They do not work that well for me personally, and any way I would like to continue using Ardour.
I know that one could perform HTTP requests from a QML plugin, hence my question. Also, I believe that MuseScore is not built with QtNetwork, so there’s no way to use OSC (UDP) or WebSocket interfaces of Ardour (also, “locate/jump to time” endpoint is not supported by WebSocket interface).
Maybe I am missing some obvious solution, so I’d greatly appreciate if anyone could point it out! Or just gave me a NO on all my assumptions so I could accept my defeat.