| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * | 
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 | 
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Hi, I'm looking into getting an 8-track and am considering a TASCAM 38. My question is - can make it work with SMPTE - syncing to video, etc? Do you need something like an SBX-80 to do it? I talked to a TASCAM rep once and he said you couldn't make the 38 do SMPTE. From reading the notes on the subject - it looks to me like you can. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks - Bill
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| 1131.1 | Maybe There's A Mod Kit...? | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | Mon Jan 11 1988 11:28 | 15 | |
|     A 38 out of the box will not chase a SMPTE sync signal.  You can
    use it as the master, i.e., record a sync track on it that other
    devices will chase, but the 38 itself will not chase anything.
    
    So, for example, you couldn't take two stock 38s and make a 14 track
    machine out of them.
    
    An SBX-80 will not help - the SBX-80 will provide the sync signal
    you could record on the 38, but the 38's drive logic is not set
    up to chase such a signal.  You could put FSK on the 38, use that
    track to drive the SBX-80, get SMPTE out of the SBX-80 and send
    that to some other device, but the 38 must be the master.
    
    len.
    
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| 1131.2 | SMPTE on FOSTEX M-80 | LEDS::ORIN | Raucous Roland Renegades | Mon Jan 11 1988 11:50 | 3 | 
| The FOSTEX M-80 has a SMPTE option. dave | |||||
| 1131.3 | MPGS::DEHAHN | Tue Jan 12 1988 10:16 | 8 | ||
|     
    So does the Otari. Mark III has it standard, implemented thorough
    it's own track, not one of the 8 audio tracks.
    
    Does the Tascam autolocator respond to SMPTE? 
    
    CdH
    
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