Tracking: SMPTE vs MTC

Sooner or later I'm probably going to want to track stuff out to the computer, at least until I ahve the money to get an 8 out card. I know that even a painstakingly optimized computer is going to have pretty shaky MIDI sync compared to dedicated hardware, so I'm thinking about using it as a SMPTE master and slaving the MPC to that. Not with the SMPE generator in my interface, but just by generating timecode as a WAV file, putting it on a track, and sending the monitor out for that track to the SMPTE in on my MPC. That way I'd never have to involve MIDI at all, I'd just be doing everything via the ASIO drivers, which shouldn't have anywhere near the timing trouble of PC MIDI

Anyone tried this? Worth the effort? Tips?

Thanks

Figures, the time I don't bother to search....

EDIT: no answers there, jsut more questions, but I'll do some digging on my own when I ahve more time tomorrow.

You could try finding one of these: http://www.bonsaidrive.com/mif3.html

I use one when I need to slave the MPC to my computer's crappy MTC.

ALustyGhost wrote:Sooner or later I'm probably going to want to track stuff out to the computer, at least until I ahve the money to get an 8 out card. I know that even a painstakingly optimized computer is going to have pretty shaky MIDI sync compared to dedicated hardware, so I'm thinking about using it as a SMPTE master and slaving the MPC to that. Not with the SMPE generator in my interface, but just by generating timecode as a WAV file, putting it on a track, and sending the monitor out for that track to the SMPTE in on my MPC. That way I'd never have to involve MIDI at all, I'd just be doing everything via the ASIO drivers, which shouldn't have anywhere near the timing trouble of PC MIDI

Anyone tried this? Worth the effort? Tips?

TWO THUMBS UP!!!

Thats how I do it with my MPC60! Go for it!

Just remember to leave a blank bar or 4 blank bars at the begining of your song.

AND

when youve linked all the seuqences and make the song DONT FORGET to CONVERT SONG TO SEQUENCE!