Teac 2488 - Manual (Page 83)

8 – MIDI
TASCAM 2488 User’s Guide
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• GENERATOR can be OFF , MTC or CLOCK . OFF and MTC
explain themselves. See below for an explanation
of the
CLOCK setting.
NOTE
Timecode (including MTC) does not include any infor-
mation about bars and beats or tempo. MIDI Clock does
not contain any information about the absolute time at
which events take place.
MIDI clock
MIDI Clock and associated MIDI commands (Start/
Stop, Song Position Pointer etc.) can be transmitted
from the 2488 when it is in
INTERNAL mode and the
GENERATOR parameter is set to CLOCK . In this setting,
the 2488 can be used to control an external sequenc-
ers, drum machines, etc. whose audio outputs are fed
to the 2488.
NOTE
Remember that there is no absolute time information
contained in this MIDI Clock data. Any external devices
synchronized to the 2488 which need timing informa-
tion should either be synchronized using MTC, or have
their own tempo maps.
Remote
From the SYNC/MIDI menu, this REMOTE option allows
the setting of a number of parameters connected with
remote control of the 2488.
• MIDI IN MODE allows you to specify what will happen
when MIDI messages are received. The choices
are:
OFF (incoming MIDI messages are ignored), TG
(incoming MIDI messages control the tone genera-
tor) and
REMOTE (incoming MIDI messages control
scene changes (“Scene memories” on page 29) and
mixer parameters.
• MMC (MIDI Machine Control) The 2488 can act
in MASTER or a SLAVE MODE, either control-
ling or being controlled by other devices in the sys-
tem. Each device in such a setup must have an ID
assigned to it. The settings here are from 1 to 127,
or ALL (the last setting means that the 2488 will
respond to all MMC commands received, not just
those specifically addressed to it).
NOTE
It is possible for a device to act as an MMC master, and a
timecode slave, or the other way around. MMC and
timecode are independent of each other.
• REMOTE CONTROL settings. You can enable or disable
Program Change messages for the following: SCENE
and EFF (effect change). In addition you can turn
CONTROL CHANGE messages on or off (for individual
mixer parameters).