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SYNCHRONIZATION

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your Express interface freewheels at the frame rate it is

reading at the time it begins freewheeling — except for

29.97 drop and non-drop. If you intend on reading 29.97

SMPTE, be sure to manually set the SMPTE format to

29.97 so that freewheeling will occur at the proper rate.

When you increase the freewheel amount, you also

increase the amount of time that your Express interface

keeps converting when you stop tape. To make your

Express interface as responsive as possible, only raise the

freewheel amount as high as necessary to overcome the

drop-out(s) you are encountering.

Synchronizing to discontinuous time code

your Express interface has the ability to stay in sync with

discontinuous time code — that is, time code that has no

gaps in it but does have jumps in its frame locations. For

details about how to do this, see “Frame lock” on page 44

(or page 84 for Mac OS 9 users).

SLAVING A SEQUENCER TO SMPTE

To slave a sequencer to SMPTE time code via your MOTU

Express interface:

1 Conﬁrm that the Express Interface is successfully

locking to incoming time code and transmitting MIDI

Time Code to the computer, as explained earlier in this

chapter.

2 Set up your software to slave to MIDI Time Code.

Consult your software documentation for details.

Slaving Digital Performer to SMPTE

To slave Digital Performer to SMPTE time code (LTC) via

your MOTU Express interface:

1 In Digital Performer, choose Receive Sync from the

Setup menu (Basics menu in the OS 9 version).

2 Make sure the Sync to port menu is set to Any Port or the

name of the interface.