Question about smpte on a 4000

Well I was looking at the specs on all 3 different machines and on both the 1000 and 2500 it said midi sync master/slave but on the 4000 model it said smpte. so does this mean the 4000 locks on alot better or what? im just kinda curious because I was thinking of going for a 4000 or keeping my 1000 toss my cheap emu 0404 and go for a really nice rackmount digidesign soundcard. what would u do?

MTC/SMPTE Same thing isnt it. A time code signal (in SMPTE or some other format) recorded on some external medium or generated and sent by the master program. I know of Internal(clock on cpu's motherboard) Audio (soundcard clock) and MIDI Sync (clock on ext device). I would think SMPTE would be great for making beats. Whats with the Nicole? is that what u say to all of the rookies?

MTC and SMPTE are not the same thing but are similar. For audio, SMPTE has pretty much been replaced by MTC - many of today's DAWS and software simply don't, or require an upgrade to read SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) It is still used regularly to sync to video and film and can be configured to run at various different frame rates. It was commonly used before digital to sync MIDI devices to tape. Typically a track was sacrificed to "stripe" with SMPTE which was then played back and fed to the SMPTE in of your MPC.....

I used smpte when tracking my beat and it did a great job. There was no timing drift or delay on any track and I was very happy with the results.

You can think of smpte/midi time code as:
-smpte - audio signal (goes through audio cables when syncing)
-midi time code - smpte interpretation as non audio signal (goes through midi cables when syncing)

many of today's DAWS and software simply don't, or require an upgrade to read SMPTE

There is a walk around for this, very simple and effective. No need for upgrade. In other words - any audio editing software can be synced with mpc via smpte. You just need the smpte generator (I have one in my mpc).