Specifications

System 5 and Pro Tools Guide12

Using the Transport

The Avid MachineControl™ Option is required to use the CM401 Machine control section to control

the Pro Tools transport. When your Pro Tools workstation is attached and the MachineControl op-

tion is configured, the transport switches on System 5 control the Pro Tools Transport. You can use

the System 5 Smart Switches for EUCON machine control. For Pro Tools these are on bank 10, or from

the bank 1 TRANS key. EUCON track arming is done from the individual strip’s Link/Rec switch.

The System 5 uses the TT002 (single operator) or TT003 (dual operator) machine control interface.

This provides one 9-pin, MIDI and LTC I/O (note, however, that this interface is not a synchronizer).

The CM401 machine control section does not use EUCON commands. Source, Frame rate, track arm-

ing message length and FF/RW speed are controlled from the eMix System Preferences page. Record

from the CM401 as well as track arming from the CM402 or CM403 post panel sends the appropriate

machine control command to the designated master or record enabled machine (such as Pro Tools).

Loop points (Return) are set using the Mark in/out keys. Loop points, as well as Roll Back time and Ti-

tle start/end, can be entered manually into the System 5 Locate Registers.

System 5 Machine Control panel

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