Looking to control JACK transport via hotkeys or MIDI

[makra]

First of all, my reason for wanting the above is that I use non-daw. It is great and suits my needs perfectly. The only problem is that due to it being modular, I can't control non-timelines transport via hotkeys unless its window is in focus.

I'm looking for other ways to control JACK transport, so that it doesn't matter which window has focus when I want to start/stop non-timeline. Two ways I am wondering about are the use of hotkeys or MIDI. I'm not even sure if the former is workable, and I still haven't found a way to do this via MIDI.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve either of the above, or alternatively, any other ways that work for controlling JACK transport that would solve my 'window not in focus' issue? Thanks in advance

[Luc]

From what I see, Non Timeline does not support MIDI at all. There is no such option in any menu or submenu whatsoever, and it doesn't create any kind of input or output in a patchbay. It doesn't look like hotkeys are supported either. Perhaps you should turn to another similar program, such as Ardour, which is a lot more powerful though probably not as quick and simple to use.

[makra]

From what I see, Non Timeline does not support MIDI at all. There is no such option in any menu or submenu whatsoever, and it doesn't create any kind of input or output in a patchbay.

I am not looking to directly control non-timelines transport as I know it has no such options via MIDI, this is why I am hoping to find a way to control JACK transport via MIDI as a workaround.

Perhaps you should turn to another similar program, such as Ardour, which is a lot more powerful though probably not as quick and simple to use.

I am a long time Ardour user. It is getting too bloated for my needs and I really am drawn to non-daws simplicity. This isn't a deal breaker for me by any means but I would like to find a way to control transport without having to worry about window focus.

[tatch]

you could set up a keybinding program like xbindkeys (or if you're using a DE, whatever their default is) to invoke the jack_transport utility or use a simple scripting language like python+mididings to invoke the same utility using midi