Congratulations with the new version. I’d love to use Ardour but my workflow isn’t compatible with the way Ardour works with looping playback. I record some audio, then I loop the audio and listen to it while I play/practice another instrument, sometimes I pause the playback, fiddle with something like automation or a plugin, then I expect to restart the playback at the same place where I stopped and the loop is still enabled. In other words; flexible transport/playback looping.
I’m looking for pointers for a script to enable the following:
- When the loop is set you can start from anywhere outside or inside the loop (ie if you begin playing outside of the loop it will start looping when entering the loop)
- Starting playback from after the loop just plays back as normal, the loop still enabled when the playhead is moved back into the loop
- Stopping playback retains the playhead position when restarting the playback
- Just set and forget!
Yeah that’s about it. The way Aurdour handles looping right now is slightly authoritarian (“No! Though shall start from the beginning!”), so I’m looking for a way to simply get it flexible. Any pointers on how to solve this with a LUA script are welcome!
Thank you for your hard work!