Hi,

Does anyone know of a program that can read MTC coming from the
computer's sound board and "jam" sync the computer's time and day
clock?

It would be a small program running in background under Windows 98SE
(tm) or a TSR type program, that would read the MIDI Time Code (MTC)
from the computer's sound board and set the computer's time and day
clock to the same time as on some SMPTE time code that gets converted
into MIDI by a XRI systems XR300 SMPTE synchroniser, or other SMPTE to
MIDI to MTC synchroniser.

I need to have the computer's time clock follow the SMPTE time code. I
think this is called "jamming" the computer's clock. I know this can
be done with PCI cards that work as a SMPTE reader, but the ones I have
seen are very expensive. It seems that a simple program could do the
same thing for "free".

If such a program does not exist, could someone help me write one? I
know some programing, I can set the time and day clock easy enough, but
have not yet figured out how to read the MTC under DOS. Any help of
any kind would be most appreciated.

Please send a personal e-mail about this to: tempnulbox (at) yahoo
(dot) com

So that I do not miss your reply. Please put "JAMSYNC MTC to CLOCK" in
the subject line of your e-mail. Thank you in advance for your kind
assistance.

JAMSYNC wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone know of a program that can read MTC coming from the
computer's sound board and "jam" sync the computer's time and day
clock?

It would be a small program running in background under Windows 98SE
(tm) or a TSR type program, that would read the MIDI Time Code (MTC)
from the computer's sound board and set the computer's time and day
clock to the same time as on some SMPTE time code that gets converted
into MIDI by a XRI systems XR300 SMPTE synchroniser, or other SMPTE to
MIDI to MTC synchroniser.

I need to have the computer's time clock follow the SMPTE time code. I
think this is called "jamming" the computer's clock. I know this can
be done with PCI cards that work as a SMPTE reader, but the ones I have
seen are very expensive. It seems that a simple program could do the
same thing for "free".

If such a program does not exist, could someone help me write one? I
know some programing, I can set the time and day clock easy enough, but
have not yet figured out how to read the MTC under DOS. Any help of
any kind would be most appreciated.


Might be abit of learning curve, but there's a MIDI extension to
the Tcl language that seems to work relatively well.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9985

If you really mean DOS, it may not apply. If you mean a DOS box
on a Windows machine, it'll work.

Please send a personal e-mail about this to: tempnulbox (at) yahoo
(dot) com

So that I do not miss your reply. Please put "JAMSYNC MTC to CLOCK" in
the subject line of your e-mail. Thank you in advance for your kind
assistance.


--
Les Cargill

"JAMSYNC" wrote ...

Does anyone know of a program that can read MTC coming from the
computer's sound board and "jam" sync the computer's time and day
clock?

Sounds like a bad idea since diddling the computer's
notion of time/date may screw up the operating system
(file datestamps, etc. etc.)

Sounds like a bad solution for some unstated problem.
Perhaps it would be better to start at the begining and
describe what you are trying to do?

[JAMSYNC]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I am still looking for a program that can read
MTC coming from the MIDI port and use its time (from SMPTE to MTC) to
set the computer's time and day clock. In this way the computer's
clock would read the same time +/- ms that the SMPTE time code (LTC)
was at.

Does anyone know of such a program that can run in background or
foreground under Win98SE or DOS?

Could someone write such a program for me? If so at what cost.

The program would be small and have no user interface, or not much of
one.

Dan, tempnulbox (at) yahoo (dot) com

Keywords: MIDI MTC SMPTE convert timecode time code clock 18.2 software
development contract development programmer wanted help programming

Les Cargill wrote:


Might be abit of learning curve, but there's a MIDI extension to
the Tcl language that seems to work relatively well.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9985

If you really mean DOS, it may not apply. If you mean a DOS box
on a Windows machine, it'll work.

Please send a personal e-mail about this to: tempnulbox (at) yahoo
(dot) com

So that I do not miss your reply. Please put "JAMSYNC MTC to CLOCK" in
the subject line of your e-mail. Thank you in advance for your kind
assistance.


--
Les Cargill