Re: [LCtalk] MTC

[Matthijs van Duin]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:56:20PM -0000, Dave wrote:
> was wondering if i could lock the lanbox to the sequencer so that when 
> i moved my transport bar the box would play the lights from that spot 
> at moment when i make an edit i have to start from the beggining of the 
> track as thats where my cue starts from.
>
> i have mtc turned on in sx and i seen the mtc in lcedit i typed in the 
> times there  bit unsure which of the selections to pick mtc mtc locked 
> and transitions etc but chose mtc and transitions after  but that didnt 
> do anything didnt play the scene or anything

You don't want a transition-test, since they never "fall through".  A 
"transitions to after" waits until it sees the time code going from 
before the indicated time to after the indicated time.

A "hold until mtc is after" test will fall through if the current time 
code is already after the indicated value.  So you can at least use 
these to make sure it'll always "fast forward" to the current position.

Making it also track you if you go back is certainly more challenging... 
though I think it's possible using two control-cues working together:  
One is waiting until the time code goes forward, the other waiting until 
the time goes back.  Whichever is triggered first does a "go" in the 
other to sync it.  One of the control cues also fires the real cue(s).

Messy, but it should work.

As for "locked", that just makes the hold also wait until it's confirmed 
the midi time code is properly locked onto its source.

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