User guide

MIDI MACHINE CONTROL

This can be accomplished with an MMC-compatible

sequencer, MMC applet, or any other software that

transmits MMC transport control commands.

Your MOTU MIDI interface has the ability to serve as a

MMC transport slave, while at the same time generating

time code for other devices in your studio. In doing so, the

MOTU interface becomes a central, stable time code “hub”

for all of the devices in your studio, allowing you play, stop,

and cue them all directly from your sequencer.

Figure 8-1: Your MOTU interface (a MIDI Express XT in this example) can serve

as a time code “hub” while you control it from your sequencer via MMC trans-

port commands.

MOTU MIDI interface

MIDI Time Code (MTC)

MIDI Machine Control

(MMC)

SMPTE (LTC)

MIDI Time Code (MTC)

Any host software that support

SMPTE sync and MMC

Decks or other

devices that can

slave to time code

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