Aaron Trumm <aaron@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > the way I understand it, MTC really just IS smpte, translated into > the MIDI stream so that MIDI devices such as synths and sequencers > (and Darwin, and my mixer) can deal with it (my mixer has an actual > smpte port too I think) it's always nice to have 'em all Basically true. The main practical difference between SMPTE timecode and MTC is that the SMPTE timecode is encoded in an audio stream. If digitized and fed to a JACK port, this becomes sample-synchronous, which can potentially provide excellent timing. Synching to an external SMPTE clock will be difficult for many JACK clients because of clock drift. But generating SMPTE from within a JACK timebase master client should be very solid, because then there's only one clock source. MIDI messages are generally not delivered with accurate timing by existing Linux interfaces. I believe this is why ardour has trouble with it. -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA
