Tascam MMR-8 owner manual Scsi, Smpte

Abbreviations
and Terms	Definitions
	for the audio and a frame reference to keep the audio timed correctly to the
	video or film frame.
Register	A memory that holds a time code position or other number. There are 11
	dedicated registers (to hold such numbers as the Head, Tail, In and Out points,
	etc.) plus 10 memory registers (0 -9) in the MMR-8.
Reshape	The process of regenerating incoming time code so that the time code output is
	clean and free of noise or other signal distortions.
Resolving	The process of regulating the playback speed of a machine through phase
	locking a recorded signal on the tape to a fixed reference signal.
Safe	No recording can take place since all record enables are locked out.
Sample	The reference for the digital audio sample clock in the MMR-8. It can come
Reference	from a digital input, from the word clock input, or from the frame reference.
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface. The bus that connects external removable
	drives to the MMR-8.
Setup Menus	The method through which operating parameters are changed and set in the
	MMR-8. To bring up the Setup Menus on the LCD display press the Setup key.
Shuttle	Manual control over the machine transport from stop to play to fast forward
	and from stop to reverse play to rewind through using the Wheel.
Slip	The process of adding slight timing offsets to individual tracks.
SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers. The organization that
	developed and approved the video time code that is often referred to as SMPTE
	or SMPTE/EBU code.
Sync Group	Each MMR-8 can be placed into one of four Sync Groups, or groups of
	machines that can be controlled together. The Sync Group also selects the
	biphase input that is being used.
Sync Word	Part of the SMPTE/EBU time code, the sync word indicates the end of the time
	code word. It can also be used to determine the direction the transport is
	moving as well as for phase locking.
TC	Time Code. The 80 bit biphase-encoded code (90 bit code is used in VITC
	code) that marks the time on a video or audio tape in
	hours:minutes:seconds:frames:subframes. It also identifies the type of code
	being used (DF or NDF). It can be recorded longitudinally along the edge of a
	tape or recorded within the vertical interval on a video tape. Time code can also
	be encoded onto film, although in most applications the time code will be
	generated from the film transport biphase signal.

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