[ardour-dev] Re: MTC & MMC ...

R Parker rtp405 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 24 06:32:34 PDT 2004


--- Dave Phillips <dlphilp at bright.net> wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
>   Some correction: Yes, I'm able to slave Seq+ to
> MTC coming from 
> Ardour, *but* when I tried it two days ago I
> discovered that control is 
> very bad when the receiving sequence has a lot of
> tempo changes. It 
> sounded like the sequencer was always trying to
> catch up to the 
> timecode. Anyone have any suggestions for fixing
> that situation ?
> 
>   Seq+ has a MIDI analysis page in which I can
> observe incoming MIDI 
> messages. Is there anything in particular I should
> be looking for ? 
> Also, is there a way to capture Ardour's own MIDI
> trace stuff ? I'll 
> gladly keep testing this: Seq+ does not support MMC,
> so MTC is my only 
> real hope for syncing Ardour with the external
> sequencer.
> 
>   I've still not got the hang of getting Ardour to
> receive MTC. I'm also 
> still learning the capabilities of the Tascam D1000
> and will work with 
> Ron Parker to discover how Ardour and the mixer can
> best work together. 
> The D1000 sends and receives MMC, it also receives
> MTC.

But the D1000 does not generate MTC?

Does it have automation capabilities? If yes, I assume
it can generate MTC.

If it did, then you'd get around the kernel timer
stuff by having applications slave to the D1000.
Ardour slaves well enough for testing while designing
your studio.

A likely scenario is D1000 as MTC master, Ardour as
MTC slave, Seq+ as MTC slave, and Ardour jack
timemaster, Hydrogen sync to jack or Ardour sync to
jack Rosegarden jack timemaster.

These sync relationships are very much open for
testing. I'm not certain but I don't think there's any
reason that a jack client can't slave to MTC while
either syncing to jack or being the jack timemaster.

ron

>   So, back to the lab...
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp
> 
> 
> 
> Third Option wrote:
> 
> >So what YOU are saying, which is different than I'm
> getting from other
> >sources, is that MTC RECEIVE in ardour does NOT
> work, and MTC SEND
> >does...right?
> >
> >  
> >
> >>    A separate machine is running Sequencer Plus.
> The machine has a
> >>Music Quest MQX32M standalone MIDI card routed to
> a Yamaha MJC8 MIDI
> >>junction box. The machine running Ardour is also
> routed to the MJC8,
> >>with MIDI sent & received via an SBLive. The
> sequencer syncs to MTC
> >>coming from Ardour, with Ardour's Sync options set
> to Internal
> >>Positional Sync and the Send MTC box activated.
> For some reason I have
> >>to set the Tape Offset in Seq+ to a value > 0
> before it will behave
> >>correctly: does anyone know why that's so ?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >this is just always so about the offset.  i've
> always had my cakewalk set to
> >offset to :03 seconds when I sync to darwin. it's
> just because it takes a
> >second for the sequencer to catch the stream.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>  I've been reading some details of the MMC
> message set, but I confess
> >>I'm unclear as to why an MMC Start message is
> required before Ardour
> >>will respond to MTC.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >me too.  MMC and MTC are really two entirely
> different things, as far as I
> >understand it.  MMC is just stuff like "hey start!"
>  and "hey stop"  - MIDI
> >Machine Control - MTC is MIDI Time Code - which is
> an exact replica of SMPTE
> >time code and works exactly the same way.   now MTC
> of course sends
> >start/stop commands - so...maybe it USES MMC to do
> so...
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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