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Using ClockWorks™ for Windows with the MIDI Timepiece AV OVERVIEW RUNNING CLOCKWORKS About clockWorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Familiarity with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Installing ClockWorks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THE FILE MENU SAVING AND LOADING CONFIGURATIONS Here is a brief explanation of each item in the ClockWorks File menu. ClockWorks lets you save the entire contents of the MIDI Timepiece AV’s memory as a file on disk. The file can later be opened and modified at any time. This allows you to store an unlimited number of MIDI Timepiece AV setups. Device List The Device List menu item opens the Device List window.
Making a connection To route MIDI directly from a MIDI device to any other, click the source cable icon on the left and drag to the destination cable icon on the right. Connecting one input to multiple outputs To connect an input to more than one output, make each connection separately as described in the previous section. As a shortcut, shift-drag from the input cable on the left over to the first output, and then drag directly to each additional output on the right.
If you would like to bypass the interface and control a MMC device directly from your computer software (choice #1 above), remove the highlighted connection shown in Figure 4. If you plan to use choice #2 above, maintain the connection shown in Figure 4, and also make connection from the MIDI Timepiece AV’s MMC Out port on the left to the MMC device’s destination MIDI port on the right.
On a MIDI IN cable, data is muted before it enters the interface. On a MIDI OUT cable, data gets muted just before it gets transmitted out of the interface. ☛ When data is muted on a MIDI IN port, the light on the front panel still blinks when the data is received on the port. Don’t be concerned. The light blinks to let you know that the interface is indeed receiving the data on that port. However, the data does get muted.
THE MAPPINGS TAB SYNCHRONIZATION AND MIDI MACHINE CONTROL The Mappings tab controls the channelizing of MIDI data on all MIDI IN and MIDI OUT cables. With complete flexibility, this window can switch data from its current MIDI channel to any other channel immediately when the data either enters or exits the MIDI Timepiece AV. The Sync tab and the sync-related controls at the top of the window give you control over the MIDI Timepiece AV’s sync and MMC transport control features.
cue the MIDI Timepiece AV to a specific frame location. Use the tab key to move from field to field and press return to confirm the SMPTE location you type in. Locate Buttons You can set the eight locate buttons (below the SMPTE counter) to any SMPTE frame location you wish and then cue the MIDI Timepiece AV (and all connected devices) as desired by clicking the appropriate Locate button.
When the Wait for device on play option is unchecked, the MIDI Timepiece AV may, depending on the situation, begin generating or converting time code while the ADAT is still cueing to catch up to the current playback location. The device will begin playing as soon as it catches up. Turning this option on for all ADATs will ensure that they all begin playing at the same time. But the trade-off is that you will have to wait for all of them to cue before playback begins.
Figure 16: Frame Lock and other check box options. If the Frame lock option is turned on (checked), and the MIDI Timepiece AV detects more than five frames in a row that are not continuous with respect to previous frames received, then it will stop converting altogether. If the Frame lock option is turned off (unchecked), and the MIDI Timepiece AV detects more than five frames in a row that are not continuous with respect to previous frames received, then it begins to perform a kind of “pseudo jam sync”.
If you change the MIDI Timepiece AV device ID for some reason, make sure that it does not match the ID of another device connected to it. Infinite freewheel (zero) When you choose this option, the MIDI Timepiece AV begins generating time code on its own indefinitely as soon as it stops receiving incoming time code. And it will continue to do so until you stop it with the ENTER button on the front panel.
THE PEDALS TAB This section explains how you can use the four knobs on the front panel of the MIDI Timepiece AV and the two pedal inputs (A & B) to: 2 Set the default value. The value must be between zero and 127. When you first call up the setup or modifier with this knob setting, the knobs will be set to this initial value. ■ Generate MIDI data, such as notes, controllers, patch changes, pitch bend, and system exclusive 3 Enter a minimum and maximum value.
1 refer to “Making a pedal output assignment” on page 14 for information about the Merge with data from and Channel options (after you complete the rest of the settings described below). 3 If you chose controller, type in the controller number you wish to generate. 4 If you chose system exclusive, see “Sending sysex data with a knob” on page 15. 5 Proceed to “Making a pedal output assignment” on page 14.
Sending pedal data Once you have made the pedal data assignment and output assignment as described in the previous sections in this chapter, no other preparation is necessary. Just move the pedal. Saving knob settings as part of a base setup For information about how to save knob and pedal settings as part of one of the eight MIDI Timepiece AV base setups, see “Adding commands to a setup or modifier” on page 130 in the MOTU USB MIDI User’s Guide.
exactly the same except for the value of the variable byte. It changes in correspondence with the current position of the knob on a scale between zero and 127. This feature is ideal for creating smooth, real-time changes to parameters on synthesizers and other MIDI devices. The reason for the 27-byte limit is that a message larger than 27 bytes cannot be transmitted efficiently enough to be generated in real time.
