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D-160 Owner's Manual (MIDI sync function)

4. External MIDI equipment sync system by the slave mode

Up to this point, synchronization with external MIDI equipment has been explained with the D-160 as the master and MIDI equipment as the slave but depending on the slave mode setting, the MIDI equipment can be set as the master and D-160 as the slave.

<Note>

External MIDI equipment which can be used as the master is limited to those which can output MTC.

*Initialize D-160.

*Confirm the program and sampling frequency.

*In the following, the explanation will be on the assumption that a computer (with sequence software) is used.

Computer

with MMC/MTC

soft ware (Master)

MIDI OUT

D-160 (Slave)

MIDI IN

D-160

AUTO RTN

DIGITAL MULTITRACK RECORDER

CLIPBOARD

AUTO PUNCH

EXECUTE

EXIT

AUTO PLAY

IN

OUT

START

IN

OUT

END

DISP SEL

/YES

/NO

AUTO RTN

TIME BASE SEL

COPY

MOVE

PASTE

ERASE

UNDO

REDO

HOLD/

STORE

RECALL

POWER

PGM CHANGE

AUTO

REHEARSAL

PUNCH

LOCATE

VARI PITCH

TAKE

RECORD TRACK

RECORD

STOP

PLAY

REWIND

F FWD

1/9

2/10

3/11

4/12

5/13

6/14

7/15

8/16

SHIFT

PUNCH

IN / OUT

LOCKED

HD ACCESS

MTC IN

CLIPBOARD PLAY

LOCATE ABS 0

LOCATE ABS END

Connection to external equipment

Connect MIDI OUT of the computer (with MIDI interface) with MIDI IN of D-160. The computer sequence software complying to MMC/MTC must be activated.

Setup of external equipment

Sequence software is setup as follows.

*Set for output of MTC.

*Set frame rate of the MTC to be output.

*Confirm start time of the tune.

# Refer to Owners Manual of the respective equipment for details.

Setup of D-160

1. Set to same frame rate as the sequence software by the SETUP mode "MTC Frame rate setting."

#Refer to page "151", SETUP mode "2-9. MTC Frame rate setting" for operating procedure and details.

2. Set to the desired mode by the SETUP mode "MTC offset mode setting."

#Refer to page "153", SETUP mode "2-11. MTC offset mode setting" for operating procedure and details.

3. A random offset time can be set by the SETUP mode "MTC offset time setting."

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