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Another follow up: I recently got a Yamaha MSS1 ($40) which turned out to be the piece of gear I needed. The MTS-30 needed to have the tempo and time signature info set before striping which was its major drawback for me, the MSS1 avoids that by being SMPTE and having tempo mapping built in.

I asked my first question in 2005, then didn't make another post until this year. So you never know, Mr./Ms. Doodle may return in another 11 years.

@ecc83 Thanks a lot! Looks simple enough, I'm going to give it a shot.

@bouldersoundguy Thanks for the continued replies. The mixer has 4 stereo subgroups and outs for each. Going on your suggestion I'm guessing the procedure to be: - mix the instrument tracks with 0 VU as the peak - assign the instrument tracks to a subgroup - connect the subgroup out to the...

@ecc83 Thanks, if you have something simple you could show me I'd love to give it a try.

@ecc83 To clarify, the Mackie master volume should be at a healthy volume such as +10dBu in order to get the output as Mackie intended, but since the Ozonic only allow +1.5dBu the Mackie output has to be reduced, and that is what the stereo volume control is for? A quick web search gave me...

Follow up: I just got a Tascam MTS-30 (seemingly unused, and in the box, for $15) and it seems to do the trick. It's FSK instead of SMPTE and seems a little less flexible because of that, but for my purposes it works fine.

I see what you're saying. Right now I have the mixer main outs going into the L-R unbalanced line inputs of the Ozonic which as you point out is probably the main reason for my clipping problem so to solve that problem I assume I should just take the Ozonic out altogether. The reason the...

@ecc83 Thanks for the info, I haven't got the sound 100% yet so your extra hints is where I'll try next. As for the Ozonic's interface functionality, it does the basics fine, gets audio into the computer and MIDI info out of the computer, which is enough for me. I got it for $20 so I wasn't...

What are the advantages of each? As an amateur I can't see any advantages with the former but presumably there are trade offs for both.

@rob aylestone The parts in your explanation didn't quite match up to my mixer, but your reply reminded me of a similar explanation that I had read (and since forgotten) in the mixer manual, and going through those instructions more or less did the trick. Thanks for your suggestion. Thanks to...

I have a chain of gear that goes: synths & drum machine -> audio patch bay -> mixer (Mackie CR1604-VLZ) -> audio interface (M-Audio Ozonic) -> speakers (Rokit 5). The interface is there for when I use the computer but in this question's context I'm not using a computer. I said "live mix" in...

@jamesperrett I had read those articles, thanks for confirming that I was on the right track. @rob aylestone The 4 track is the master, the sequencer reads MIDI sync. Currently they can sync by going 4 track → MOTU Midi Express → DAW → sequencer, the DAW simply reads SMPTE and sends out MIDI...

I want to sync my hardware sequencer which recognizes start/stop/continue/SPP to a SMPTE stripe on my 4-track, without using a computer. How can I do this? (I've already Googled.)

I'm trying to get a basic working setup with an AI-2, ADAT, and time code source, but I'm having a problem with the reader in, hopefully someone can help. Specifically I'm trying to recreate the procedure for "time code chase operation" in the AI-2 manual. I've tried connecting both a MOTU...

So normally a hobbyist recording at home has a soundcard with multiple inputs. My cheap setup is my problem then. Though even with a multiple output drum machine, there's going to end up being some relatively fixed volume tracks since the number of outs is limited. So this is never avoided...

So, in most cases where someone records a drum machine and wants the ability to mix each sound, the person records separate audio tracks one at a time and then drags and drops them to sync them, or the person gives up on the mixing capability and records a single mixed down audio track instead...

I'm all confused here as you can tell. The goal is to record drum machine and guitars. Also I'd like to be able to mix the drum sounds separately. I have been acheiving this by recording an audio track for each sound (bass drum, snare, etc) then dragging and dropping them to sync them up. It...

Ooook, I changed some Cakewalk track settings and was able to get the patterns to play out of the R-5's outputs when hooked up to a speaker. However, I can't get those sounds to play out of the computer's speakers. I thought that in the past I had been able to hook the R-5 to the computer via...

Ha. Well, that's why I'm posting in the Newbies forum... ;) Anyway, if I turn off the drum machine then the MIDI in light (that's a light on the USB MIDI interface, by the way) goes off. So, er, what does that tell you? Apparently something's broken? :) How can I test if the soundcard...