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Chapter 10: Syncing to Tape and Other Devices

sync and the other to other real-time MIDI messages,

thus reducing the amount of data that has to flow on one

MIDI cable.

• The Song pointer field:

When set to ON, MIDI Song Position Pointer messages

are recognized. This allows the external device to change

the MPC3000’s current bar position within the sequence

or song. If this field is set to OFF, incoming Song Position

Pointer messages will be ignored.

If the SMPTE option is installed and SMPTE is selected in the

Mode field, the following screen is displayed:

===== Sync In ====== ==== Sync Out ====

Mode:SMPTE MIDI sync:OUT A

Start:00:00:00:00.00

Frames:30

==================== ==================

<SyncIn=ON > <GenSMPTE>

In this case, the fields are:

• The Start field:

Also called SMPTE offset, this field is used to set the

incoming SMPTE time number that must be received in

order for bar 1 of the sequence to start playing. Once the

MPC3000 knows which incoming SMPTE number plays

bar 1, it will automatically calculate the proper point

within the sequence to start playing when higher SMPTE

numbers are received. It will also know that it should not

play if a SMPTE number is received whose value is

before or after those values that fall within the sequence’s

boundaries. This field has five parts—hours, minutes,

seconds, frames and 1/100 frames. separated by colons (:).

The SMPTE start number applies to the active sequence

only and is stored with the sequence when saved to disk.

If syncing to SMPTE while in Song mode, a different

SMPTE start number field appears in the Song screen

and the number in this field is ignored.

• The Frames field:

This field is used to select one of four types of SMPTE

time code. It should be set to the same type as the incom-

ing SMPTE signal. The four types are:

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