FR: Add support for Ableton Link

[marcora]

It would be great if isobar supported syncing of the timeline to Ableton Link clock

[ideoforms]

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.

[marcora]

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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[loparcog]

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

[ideoforms]

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.

[Bubobubobubobubo]

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.

[ideoforms]

@Bubobubobubobubo Fantastic! That is just what I was looking for! Thanks so much, I will do some tests with this now.