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F R O N T P A N E L S E T T I N G S
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ABOUT SYNCHRONIZATION
The Digital Timepiece acts as a synchronization
hub for your studio. It provides stable, centralized
synchronization services for most analog, digital
audio, and video equipment found in today’s
recording studio. Using the Digital Timepiece is
simple: once you choose a time base and address
master, the Digital Timepiece generates all other
sync formats.
Three realms of synchronization
The Digital Timepiece handles the three primary
components of synchronization:
■
Time base
■
Address
■
Transport control
The Digital Timepiece generates a time base — a
stable, accurate measurement of the passage of
time from which various forms of digital and
analog synchronization data are generated to keep
all connected devices in sync with one another as
tightly as possible.
In addition, the Digital Timepiece provides central
address — the current queue position or playback
location for all devices, so that when you tell all of
your devices to queue to one hour (01:00:00:00),
for example, all devices will know exactly how to
get there.
The Digital Timepiece has the ability to play, stop,
rewind, and cue devices with transport controls,
such as tape decks, video decks, and MIDI
sequencers — all from single source. For example,
you can control your SONY 9-pin compatible
video deck, rack of ADATs, and other MIDI
Machine Control-compatible devices with the
transport controls of a MIDI sequencer running on
your computer. Or you can run everything from an
Alesis Little Remote Control (LRC).
Choosing a master
In any synchronization scenario, there is a master,
and there are slaves. The TIME BASE controls on
the Digital Timepiece’s front panel let you choose
which device in your studio will be the master. And
the Digital Timepiece gives you many choices:
nineteen different operating scenarios — we call
them
time base modes — are provided. For some
modes, a single device, such as the Digital
Timepiece itself, serves as the time base, address
and transport master. Other modes, however,
allow different devices to serve as the time base
master, address master and transport control
master. For example, you could choose video
blackburst (house sync) as the time base master,
the Digital Timepiece itself as the address (time
code) master, and your computer sequencer as the
MMC transport master.
CHOOSING A TIME BASE MODE
The Digital Timepiece offers nineteen different
operating configurations, which are called
time
base mode s. When you choose a time base mode,
you are choosing a master time base source and a
master time code (
address ) source.
How to choose the time base mode
The time base mode can be selected by repeatedly
pressing SOURCE button on the front panel of the
Digital Timepiece. Keep pressing it until the
desired time base mode LED is illuminated.
Figure 4-1: The time base selection controls on the Digital Timepiece
front panel.
The time base mode can also be selected by using
the Digital Timepiece software, called
ClockWorks .
In ClockWorks, open the Sync/MMC window
from the Windows menu, and then choose the time
base mode from the pop-up menu provided, as