User guide

USING CLOCKWORKS FOR MAC OS X WITH THE MIDI TIMEPIECE AV 6
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.
Connecting an MMC controller
If you would like to control the MIDI Timepiece AV from a MMC
controller connected to one of its MIDI inputs, connect the
device’s input cable to the MMC In port in the right-hand
column.
Computer port routing in a two-MTP setup
If you have a second MIDI Timepiece connected to the network
port, you’ll see ports 9-16 for the second MIDI Timepiece (box
9-16).
Figure 5: A two-MTP network.
The ADAT ports
The ADAT ports allow other devices in your studio—or computer
software, such as a “soft BRC” console—to communicate with
ADATs connected to the MIDI Timepiece AV’s MIDI Sync Out
port. If you have software that needs to communicate back and
forth with the ADATs for purposes other than standard MMC
transport control (which is handled by the MIDI Timepiece AV),
all you need are the factory default connections to the ADAT ports
shown below.
Figure 6: These factory default connections between the ADAT ports and the computer
allow software, such as a “soft BRC” console, to communicate with ADATs connected to
the AV’s ADAT Sync Out port. These connections are not required, however, for MMC
transport control of the ADATs, which is handled by the MIDI Timepiece AV.
Synchronization and transport control between the MIDI
Timepiece AV itself and ADATs connected to its ADAT Sync Out
port is “hard-wired” and is therefore not represented graphically
in the Routing tab. The ADAT ports have no impact on the AV’s
control over ADATs.
THE PRESETS TAB
The presets tab lets you name the eight base setups in the MIDI
Timepiece AV and choose which one is active (by clicking the
button next to its name). For complete details about presets, see
chapter 19, “Setups and Modifiers” on page 127 in your MIDI
Timepiece AV user guide.
Figure 7: The Presets tab.
THE MUTES TAB
The Mutings tab is a sophisticated MIDI data filter that controls
what types of data will be sent and received by each MIDI OUT
and MIDI IN cable. You can filter out any type of MIDI data on
any channel on any cable. In addition, each MIDI channel can
have its own unique muting setup. The Mutings tab shows the
muting status for each type of data on all MIDI channels and all
cables at once, giving you immediate feedback on the state of your
interface.
Figure 8: The Mutes tab. The menus at the top of the tab let you choose the type of data to
be muted and whether you are muting MIDI inputs or outputs. Click the desired check
box(es) in the grid; each check box represents a MIDI channel (by column) for a device (by
row). When the check box is checked, the data is muted.
Muting basics
A simple way to think of data muting is this: imagine that each
MIDI IN or MIDI OUT cable on the MIDI Timepiece AV has a
filter just inside the socket. A MIDI data stream enters the filter
and then continues on past the filter with certain types of data
removed. The filter has simply “swallowed” the data types that are
being muted.