MIDI TIME CODE

We use MIDI time code on all of our shows with sound originating from a PC (using Sonar).  It sounds similar to the way @briankacz does it. 

There are a couple of ways that I enter time code after getting into the show control screen: 

1)  The most easy is to play your audio source with the MTC transmitting.  Press LEARN, and start executing cues exactly when you want them to happen in time with the audio.  They will always fire at that time from now on. 

2) For more precise cues, sometimes I will stop the audio track, look at the exact time (down to the frame) and enter that into the show control. 

What you need to be very careful about is to turn the LEARN button off when you are done learning.  (It doesn't flash or anything - unlike when you record a macro)  I have made the mistake many times of learning a cue and then going on to make other adjustments to the cue (which get learned by mistake)  Thank goodness for the UNDO button!

We use MIDI time code on all of our shows with sound originating from a PC (using Sonar).  It sounds similar to the way @briankacz does it. 

There are a couple of ways that I enter time code after getting into the show control screen: 

1)  The most easy is to play your audio source with the MTC transmitting.  Press LEARN, and start executing cues exactly when you want them to happen in time with the audio.  They will always fire at that time from now on. 

2) For more precise cues, sometimes I will stop the audio track, look at the exact time (down to the frame) and enter that into the show control. 

What you need to be very careful about is to turn the LEARN button off when you are done learning.  (It doesn't flash or anything - unlike when you record a macro)  I have made the mistake many times of learning a cue and then going on to make other adjustments to the cue (which get learned by mistake)  Thank goodness for the UNDO button!