Chasing Sync in REAPER 2.020

[pipelineaudio]

There are two coders, though Scott Stillwell and Schwa from Stillwell Audio are always speaking with them

Here is the main coder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel

 

[jpmorris]

Today, since we have unlimited tracks and things, its [timecode sync] not as important, except as a transfer feature, usually. It is often prohibitively expensive to add chase sync to a hardware device, so adding chase in reaper frees up cash to spend on other things

IMHO it's a rather more common requirement than you think, at least when working with MIDI.
In that case, I'd even venture that the only situation where it's not necessary is if Reaper is acting both as the recorder and the sequencer.

If you're using Reaper as a sequencer and anything else as a recorder, whether it is tape, a standalone DAW or even another PC, Reaper is going to have to chase an incoming MTC signal, unless you want to manually realign the tracks afterwards and hope they match

 

[pipelineaudio]

ideally the tape would be chasing the computer, which is the more stable source

 

[jpmorris]

ideally the tape would be chasing the computer, which is the more stable source

IMHO, that's actually very rare. Firstly, most analogue decks simply can't0 do chase lock, at least not without expensive and rare hardware. MTC boxes, (where the computer chases the tape) are cheap and plentiful, however.

Secondly, it's much, much easier to compensate for the drift in software, since all it's doing is triggering MIDI notes periodically. So you just have to vary the gap between each beat.
Obviously things get a lot uglier if you've got samples since you'd have to timestretch them. In that case you would want to get the deck to chase if you can, but for soundtrack scoring work etc you're probably not going to need that.

 

[pipelineaudio]

IMHO, that's actually very rare. Firstly, most analogue decks simply can't0 do chase lock, at least not without expensive and rare hardware. MTC boxes, (where the computer chases the tape) are cheap and plentiful, however.

Thats what post #7 was about