SMPTE/LTC without soundcard

dewdman42 · Post by **dewdman42** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:51 pm

Anyone know if a way to generate SMPTE/LTC on an audio track in DP without using one of the MOTU hardware interfaces? I want to send sync audio over jack to another app, if its possible somehow.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu May 17, 2012 7:08 am

DP itself cannot generate sync. If you have some audible SMPTE you can record as a track that might work but the re-recording process tends to' round the edges' of the code making it unreliable.

If it is an important project you should use a device meant to read, write, and generate code.

dewdman42 · Post by **dewdman42** » Thu May 17, 2012 8:40 am

round the edges? We used to stripe SMPTE to tape in the old days and it always worked fine.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:02 am

You're welcome. You obviously know more than I do. <sigh>

dewdman42 · Post by **dewdman42** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:55 am

For anyone that is interested, I think I found a solution. Reaper appears to have a built in LTC generator, you can add LTC to any track. So I stripped a track with 15 minutes LTC and then imported that WAV into DP. Seems to be working so far...

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu May 17, 2012 10:15 am

Oh goody...

I was talking about COPYING SMPTE from a previously recorded tape.

dewdman42 · Post by **dewdman42** » Thu May 17, 2012 10:22 am

uggggh, may I ask why this forum is editing out the name of the other software I used in conjunction with DP to make this work? R E A P E R

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