On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Julien Claassen<julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul! > OK, I got this. But two questions arise: > 1. Is MIDI clock realtime? If so, it could still be used for simple > alignment purposes. Gabriel took care of that one. > 2. If MTC measures realtime in hh:mm:ss... then why does it seem so dificult > to have a program that can translate between it and jack timestamping or LTC > or whatever it is called? Or am I again mixing it al up? I assume it's > highly possible. It is possible and I think there has been mail from Robin or someone else noting that they have already done it. LTC is an audio signal, basically a modulated sine wave that encodes the positional values. Thus converting between it and MTC is not an entirely trivial operation. But its also not super-hard (well, hard enough that it needs somone of Robin's skill level to implement). > Another thing: I would/could theoretically use MTC to sync my MIDI-only and > audio-only apps. very few "MIDI apps" understand MTC. MTC is really just a transformation of *VIDEO* timecode into a special kind of MIDI data stream. it has little or nothing to do with the musical time that most MIDI apps are concerned with. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
