DA-98 MTC sync to Protools Digi002R HELLLP!

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In article <1117860640.227657.175620@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
soundgun <geo@eldorec.com> wrote:

> Anybody have experience with the Tascam DA-98 MIDI Time code function?
> I've been trying desperately to get a client's DA-98 to sync with
> Protools 6.9 for flying tracks back and forth and have had no luck at
> all. I've yet to confirm that the DA-98 is actually output anything
> from it's MIDI port. It seems I am not alone in this challenge, as I
> spent an hour on the phone today with a tech support dude at Tascam and
> his conclusion was that he couldn't get it to work on the machine in
> his facility either!
> I have to wait until Monday when he is supposed to get back to me after
> discussing this with some guru acquaintence of his.
> I have everything set correctly in Protools to have it chase the DA-98
> using MMC from the MIDI Port connected to the DA-98. I have the tape
> striped with Timecode, and the Yamaha 02R console in the studio reads
> the SMPTE LTC from the DA-98.
> Maybe the 02R can convert the SMPTE to MTC for me? Is this a
> possibility? It's not a function in the manual.
>
> Chew on that a while and chime in...
>
> THANKS!
>
> George Whittam
> eldorec.com



I've only owned tdm hardware, so this applies only to that. Sorry if
it's no help to ya.

You say you have the Tascam tape already striped with TC. If your PT
hardware is an HD system, all you gotta do is to borrow or buy a Digi
Sync I/O box. And plug in the Tascam's TC into the TC input. I'd sync
PT with my 24 track machine this way.

Before Protools HD hardware, I had a Digi Smpte Slave Driver box that
worked fine with the previous PT hardware. Them SSD boxes go for actual
peanuts on ebay today.

I never dealt with any MIDI ports with PT, just TC ports. Always
worked. Just click on the Online button on the far left of the
transport, and PT will either slave to or output TC.

I (lucky for me) don't know about PT LE, but it should be all there in
your manual or the .pdf. PT does have a damn good manual imo.

If this is no help, go to Digi's website to the User Conferences in the
Support area. There is a TON of info there. It's hard to find a
question you may have that has not been answered there at some point.
Check it out.





David Correia
Celebration Sound
Warren, Rhode Island

CelebrationSound@aol.com
www.CelebrationSound.com

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Have you tried it the other way around? Making the tape machine chase
'tools?

The dip switches on the back may to be set up to transmitt MTC?

Any usb SMPTE will do for a quick fix, but it should ideally have
WordClock.
All the Best.
D.S.

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I got a very disconcerting response today from Tascam. It turns out
that even though there are ports for MIDI and MTC functions in the
menus, the MTC feature is NOT enabled in the DA-98, only the DA-98HR!
You can imagine my frustration after trying to get this to work for
hours and hours, making several 45 minute drives back and forth to the
client's house only to leave with my head hanging low and
unsuccessful...

George Whittam

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On Jun 3, 2005, soundgun <geo@eldorec.com> commented:

> Anybody have experience with the Tascam DA-98 MIDI Time code function?
> I've been trying desperately to get a client's DA-98 to sync with
> Protools 6.9 for flying tracks back and forth and have had no luck at
> all.
>--------------------------------snip----------------------------------<

Ease of time code syncing is one of the big differences between ProTools LE
and ProTools TDM.

For what you're trying to do, you'd be much better off using ProTools HD TDM
and a Sync I/O, as David suggested elsewhere. If you can't afford to buy
one, then I bet there's a ProTools TDM user near you who would give you an
hour or two of time at a reasonable rate in his or her studio. Sync the
tracks that way, then copy the session files out and bring them back into
your PTLE session.

--MFW

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"soundgun" <geo@eldorec.com> wrote:
>
> I'd decided to replace the MIDI I/O with a M-Audio Midisport 8x8/s
> which reads SMPTE LTC.



I chose the MOTU MTP-AV instead of the M-Audio unit because the
Midisport doesn't seem to recognize standard video SMPTE frame rates.
It offers drop- or non-drop-frame at 30 frames per second (which doesn't
make any sense to me, but maybe I'm missing something) but only one
version of 29.97 (and no mention of whether that version is drop or
non-drop). The MOTU offers frame rates that make sense to a knucklehead
like me.

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"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good

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