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FR: Add support for Ableton Link
It would be great if isobar supported syncing of the timeline to Ableton Link clock
yes this would be cool! I'll scope it out at some point. Have you used any other Python modules that interface with Link? I am keen to keep isobar pure Python and not add any binary dependencies, but I would definitely be open to optional integration with third-party Python wrappers.
A brief search turns up LinkToPy which might be a good option.
Yes, that looks like an option but I think it would be easier for the end user to have it built into isobar, even though that would mean adding a compiled binary component to it.
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yes this would be cool! I'll scope it out at some point. Have you used any other Python modules that interface with Link? I am keen to keep isobar pure Python and not add any binary dependencies, but I would definitely be open to optional integration with third-party Python wrappers.
A brief search turns up LinkToPy https://github.com/bdyetton/LinkToPy which might be a good option.
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Although it might be overkill, would it be viable create a submodule in Python to listen for Ableton Link packets on the network, much like Carabiner does as the baseline of LinkToPy? We could keep everything Python-based, but Carabiner says there are some limitations to this
I have now implemented Link clock support based on link-python, and it's working nicely. The remaining challenge is making it installable, as the link-python repo above doesn't have an official PyPi distribution; this fork has some infrastructure for cibuildwheel but I'm not sure if the binaries are actually out there.
Hello @ideoforms: check out https://pypi.org/project/LinkPython-extern/. This is what we use to tackle this issue for Sardine. It may be useful to finish that implementation 😄. We had to hard-fork and republish to move things forward.
@Bubobubobubobubo Fantastic! That is just what I was looking for! Thanks so much, I will do some tests with this now.