Greetings all,
In the process of trying to get my old home studio going again after many years. Originally had a Tascam 488 portastudio, Korg M1 and Cakewalk 3.0 for midi work. Had to upgrade almost everything due to one reason or other. Upgraded to SONAR Cakewalk Artist version for midi work, bought a Korg KRONOS to have a good workstation. Also, I have acquired a new Tascam DP 24SD not realizing Tascam had dropped support for MIDI. Not sure how I missed that...but I did. My quandary is, how can I use the Tascam if I cannot sync midi? I only have 4 outputs on the KRONOS, so I can't record more than 4 instruments at once. And if I record 4, I cannot get perfect sync to record 4 more going forward....so this is somewhat annoying. As someone suggested in the SONAR forum, I could just use SONAR Artist as a DAW and be done with it. Kronos syncs to cakewalk, and can record audio tracks. Looks like I will have to give this method a good trial period. I tried recording into DAW previously and found the sound latency a bit annoying, but maybe I just need to fine tune more.
Anyways, back to the Tascam I have sitting on my desk now. Since this thing has 2 effects sends, I thought maybe I could stripe a tack with SMPTE and send it out through one of the effects sends and get SONAR to lock up to it. Only problem there is, I don't have a the needed adapter to generate SMPTE or translate SMPTE to MTC...I guess thats what it is. Need to figure which adapter will work with Win7 64bit and do all the translation between SMPTE and the DAW.
I sent an email to tascam to ask there thoughts on this, and here is the response I got back.
Hello Tim,
That's a tough one trying to sync without MIDI. You could try striping a track with SMPTE then sending that track out of "Effect send 2" meaning the DP-24SD would have to be master driving the computer. Since it's not designed or supported to do so, this is just a suggestion.
Regards
Brian
Tascam support
Below is a copy of the message that you submitted:
Support Request Type: Operational Support
Product: DP-24SD
Your Question:
Greetings,
I recently purchased the DP 24SD and completely missed the fact that MIDI was no longer supported. My question is, is it possible to use SMPTE (i.e. stripe an audio track) and sync to midi devices? I currently use SONAR Cakewalk Artist for most of my midi editing and would like to sync that to the DP 24 using SMPTE?
Thanks
So it looks like I am stuck trying find the correct midi/smpte interface to test this. Does anyone have any suggestions for which affordable device I might try to achieve this with? Still can't believe Tascam dropped MIDI on this machine.
In the process of trying to get my old home studio going again after many years. Originally had a Tascam 488 portastudio, Korg M1 and Cakewalk 3.0 for midi work. Had to upgrade almost everything due to one reason or other. Upgraded to SONAR Cakewalk Artist version for midi work, bought a Korg KRONOS to have a good workstation. Also, I have acquired a new Tascam DP 24SD not realizing Tascam had dropped support for MIDI. Not sure how I missed that...but I did. My quandary is, how can I use the Tascam if I cannot sync midi? I only have 4 outputs on the KRONOS, so I can't record more than 4 instruments at once. And if I record 4, I cannot get perfect sync to record 4 more going forward....so this is somewhat annoying. As someone suggested in the SONAR forum, I could just use SONAR Artist as a DAW and be done with it. Kronos syncs to cakewalk, and can record audio tracks. Looks like I will have to give this method a good trial period. I tried recording into DAW previously and found the sound latency a bit annoying, but maybe I just need to fine tune more.
Anyways, back to the Tascam I have sitting on my desk now. Since this thing has 2 effects sends, I thought maybe I could stripe a tack with SMPTE and send it out through one of the effects sends and get SONAR to lock up to it. Only problem there is, I don't have a the needed adapter to generate SMPTE or translate SMPTE to MTC...I guess thats what it is. Need to figure which adapter will work with Win7 64bit and do all the translation between SMPTE and the DAW.
I sent an email to tascam to ask there thoughts on this, and here is the response I got back.
Hello Tim,
That's a tough one trying to sync without MIDI. You could try striping a track with SMPTE then sending that track out of "Effect send 2" meaning the DP-24SD would have to be master driving the computer. Since it's not designed or supported to do so, this is just a suggestion.
Regards
Brian
Tascam support
Below is a copy of the message that you submitted:
Support Request Type: Operational Support
Product: DP-24SD
Your Question:
Greetings,
I recently purchased the DP 24SD and completely missed the fact that MIDI was no longer supported. My question is, is it possible to use SMPTE (i.e. stripe an audio track) and sync to midi devices? I currently use SONAR Cakewalk Artist for most of my midi editing and would like to sync that to the DP 24 using SMPTE?
Thanks
So it looks like I am stuck trying find the correct midi/smpte interface to test this. Does anyone have any suggestions for which affordable device I might try to achieve this with? Still can't believe Tascam dropped MIDI on this machine.