On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 04:32 +0200, Jens M Andreasen
wrote:
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:21 -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
first of all, MTC is not a particularly reliable
protocol unless you
can dedicate the equivalent of a MIDI cable to it. its data rate gets
close to the serial MIDI limit,
Using MTC quarterframe messages uses no more than 240 bytes/second, less
than 1/10th of the bandwidth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_timecode#Quarter-frame_messages
"When the time is running continuously" - Wiki
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:21 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
"the problem is that many receivers (even if
they do not transmit MTC in the "canonical way" - i.e. actually
emitting a quarter frame message at a fixed interval) expect to
receive it in canonical form"
"MIDI Time Code
For device synchronization, MIDI Time Code uses two basic types of
messages, described as Quarter Frame and Full. There is also a third,
optional message for encoding SMPTE user bits." -
http://web.media.mit.edu/~meyers/mcgill/multimedia/senior_project/MTC.html
- Ralf
PS: So if only Quarter Frame is supported, you'll run into trouble, as I
often did. As I already pointed out. I experienced that device A can be
slave of device B, but device B can't be slave of device A. That's why
Paul explained it (to us/me) and he's right.