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DIGITAL TIMEPIECE & PRO TOOLS

Setting up OMS and/or FreeMIDI

This scenario works well either with OMS or with

FreeMIDI’s OMS emulation. If you don’t normally

use OMS and you won’t be playing any MIDI

sequences during your Pro Tools sessions — either

from Pro Tools or from a sequencer, you can

simplify your life a little bit by removing OMS and

using FreeMIDI’s OMS emulation (as described in

“Enabling OMS emulation in FreeMIDI” on

page 85). You’ll deﬁnitely want to use emulation if

you want to use Performer (or Digital Performer)

simultaneously with Pro Tools.

If you intend to play MIDI sequences from within

Pro Tools or an OMS-dependent sequencer, set up

OMS and FreeMIDI as described in chapter 11,

“Digital Timepiece & OMS” (page 79).

Pro Tools software settings

In this scenario, you want to slave the Pro Tools

software to MIDI Time Code (from the Digital

Timepiece) in the usual fashion. You also want Pro

Tools to slave to the 256x word clock being received

from the Digital Timepiece.

1 Open Pro Tools (4.0 or higher) and choose Show

Session Setup from the Display menu.

2 Set the Pro Tools hardware Sync Mode to

Internal.

3 Make sure the Sample Rate and Frame Rate

settings match the Digital Timepiece settings, and

make the Session Start setting as needed.

4 Put Pro Tools Online.

Figure 12-6: Slave Pro Tools to MIDI Time Code from Digital Timepiece

by putting Pro Tools Online.

Pro Tools will now wait for MTC from the Digital

Timepiece.

Using ClockWorks

Regardless of how you’ve set up FreeMIDI and/or

OMS, you can use ClockWorks to manage the

settings in the Digital Timepiece.

If you choose one of the Digital Timepiece’s

Internal modes (Internal, Video/internal, Word 1x/

Internal, etc.) — where the Digital Timepiece itself

is acting as the address master, you can use the

transport controls in ClockWorks to drive the

whole rig — as long as you’ve set up OMS and/or

FreeMIDI so that Pro Tools and ClockWorks can

communicate simultaneously with the Digital

Timepiece. This requires either FreeMIDI’s OMS

emulation (as described in “Enabling OMS

emulation in FreeMIDI” on page 85) or FreeMIDI

and OMS running together on separate serial ports

as described in “Option 2: using separate serial

ports” on page 80. In either case, both Pro Tools

and ClockWorks are slaving to MTC from the

Digital Timepiece. In addition, ClockWorks issues

MMC transport commands to the Digital

Timepiece to trigger it.

Syncing Performer or Digital Performer with

Pro Tools

If you want to run Performer or Digital Performer

(as a MIDI Only application) simultaneously with

Pro Tools in this scenario, you need use FreeMIDI’s

OMS emulation as described in “Enabling OMS

emulation in FreeMIDI” on page 85. Performer

slaves to external time code in the usual fashion.

Both Pro Tools and Performer can slave to

incoming MTC simultaneously, with one program

slaving in the background while the other is the

active application.

If the Digital Timepiece is operating in one of its

Internal modes (Internal, Video/internal, Word 1x/

Internal, etc.) — where the Digital Timepiece itself

is acting as the address master, you can use the

Put Pro Tools Online

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