User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide352
Macintosh
Pro Tools on the Macintosh uses OMS to fa-
cilitate MIDI Machine Control. In order to
use MMC with Pro Tools you must config-
ure your MMC device as an OMS device
and enable MMC as an attribute of the de-
vice in OMS. For an example of this, see
“Using MMC to Sync an ADAT to Pro Tools
on the Macintosh” on page 354.
✽ By using the OMS IAC bus, you can also
make a MIDI sequencer act as location mas-
ter. Refer to your OMS and MMC-compatible
device documentation for details.
Windows
Pro Tools in Windows uses your Multime-
dia Setup to determine which MIDI devices
are available, and what their properties are.
Refer to your device’s installation and us-
age documentation to properly configure
the device.
Enabling MIDI Machine Control
in Pro Tools
To enable MIDI Machine Control:
1 Choose Setups > Peripherals, then click
Synchronization.
2 Select your synchronization peripheral
from the Synchronization/Device pop-up.
If you are using a MIDI interface, select
“Generic MTC Reader.”
If using a USD or SSD, set the Port to Any.
3 Select the appropriate port for synchroni-
zation information. This is the port to
which your synchronization peripheral is
attached.
4 Click the Machine Control button at the
top of the window to open this page of the
Peripherals dialog.
5 In the MIDI Machine Control section,
enable MMC.
6 Select your external device from the Send
To pop-up. The list of available devices is
determined by the OMS devices configured
in your OMS Studio Setup (Macintosh), or
by your Windows Multimedia setup.
The port on which this information will be
transmitted is set in the “ID” field. MMC
commands contain an ID number to iden-
tify which machine should respond to the
MMC command. There are 128 MMC ID
numbers, from 0-127. The default of ID
#127 is a special setting that broadcasts to
all 128 MMC IDs. With this setting, any de-
vice on the specified port will respond to
MMC commands.
Machine Control page of the Peripherals dialog