Striping tape with MTC from a DAW? (1 Viewer)

[Serpico]

Anybody striping tape with Midi Time Code these days? What do you use to do it?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

World of pain.

 

[shower another shower]

MOTU MIDI Timepiece or something similar.

 

[shower another shower]

mid you, it's been about 5 years.

 

[Red_Dog]

Yeah I think they showed us this in Ballyfermot once was nice to see it being done but why the feck anyone would want or need to do this now I dunno

They used a motu I belive , think cubase can do it

 

[ernesto]

Yeah I think they showed us this in Ballyfermot once was nice to see it being done but why the feck anyone would want or need to do this now I dunno

They used a motu I belive , think cubase can do it

recording on to tape is why they would do it.

i remember a 19" white midi sync box beign used to stripe tape in Ballyfermot. strugglin to recall the make and model though.

is this the Motu job they had when you were there

http://www.motu.com/products/midi/mtpav_usb/midi.html

 

[ann post]

what is striping to tape anyways?

 

[shower another shower]

http://www.motu.com/products/midi/mtpav_usb/midi.html

thats what I've got.

 

[pissypants]

what is striping to tape anyways?

A colloquial term for putting time-code on a track on a multi-track tape so that the recording it contains can be synchronised with other devices, e.g. another tape machine, or midi devices or whatever...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i vaguely recall attempting to sync a tape with cubase. at least i think thats what i was doing. never managed to make it work

 

[ann post]

A colloquial term for putting time-code on a track on a multi-track tape so that the recording it contains can be synchronised with other devices, e.g. another tape machine, or midi devices or whatever...

thanks pants.

midi sorta bypassed me in a lot of ways. i did similar to this with something recently except sans midi, i just put a drum machine track on both recordings and used that for lining shit up.. prob wouldnt work if there's a tape machine speed problem though.

 

[Serpico]

In case anyone is interested, it seems that the simplest way to do it without buying new equipment is to play an audio file of timecode from an audio track on your DAW onto a track on the tape and then the DAW will sync to it when you play it back off the tape. Haven't done it yet but I'll let you know how I get on. May be a week or so as I'm very busy at the moment. The problem is you need to keep the adjacent track free as bleed will fuck up the DAWs ability to sync. I'm using 8 track 1/2inch. That means I'm down to 6 tracks when syncing. Load of bollix. May have to forget syncing the DAW.