Re: What are the RCA jacks on Passport MIDI card for?

[Robert James Liptak <robliptak@delphi.com>]

	The two RCA jacks on Passport MIDI Card that was made for the ][e no
version was ever made for the ][GS. This are used to hook up to a recorder
for syncing. This is the earlier version of MTC or SMPTE you can use to sync
your sequencer to a recorder. It has to be able to recieve and distinquish
the information it sends. I don't know which programs made for the ][e took
advantage of this featurw but the small instruction bookelt does explain
what you need to do to use it. I know more syncing to a multitrack recorder
using a sequencer with MTC or SMPTE. This is so you can record one or group
of sequencer tracks at one time and then record other at another time. This
signal that you would record on one track which you would loose for recording
lets you sync up another sequecer track even if the music information was
changed as long as the sync information was used it would lock up and sound
like you recorded it together at one time. This helped you through using a
sequencer to stretch how many tracks you had to record. This would turn a
nd multiply the track you had for sounds. THis is so you didn't have to use
tricks like ping ponging to put 3 tracks you already recorded onto one track
which would then open upthree tracks again. Depending on how much this was
done this wouldn  degrade the quality of the recording. One jack is used for
tape sync out this is use to connect to the track you will record the
sequnecer digital information that was turned into a audible tome tha=t could
be recorded. The other jack Tape snyc in is used to when playing back this
would by use of your sequencer program sync and make it start and stop so
you could sync another sequencer track recorded at another time and they
would sound like they were recrded together. I dont know how accurate this
earlier version of tape sync was but MTC locks up within a beat SMPTE is even
faster which is used to sync music to video tape for music videos.
 
					Rob 'Songman' Liptak