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- MTC Sync
- --------
-
- This program receives MIDI Time code either via the standard serial
- MIDI interface or the One-Stop Music Shop MIDI Interface, displays the
- current MTC frame, and optionally sends syncing messages to other
- programs.
-
- If a One-Stop Music Shop card is present in the system, the program
- will default to receive on the MIDI interface on the One-Stop card.
- If not, the program will receive MIDI Time Code on the standard serial
- MIDI interface. This program will NOT run at the same time as
- Bars&Pipes or SuperJAM!.
-
- The MTC Sync program can send messages directly to the Media Madness
- Player (distributed with Bars&Pipes Professional 2.0) or the One-Stop
- Music Shop MIDI File Player (distributed with the One-Stop Music
- Shop). The MTC Sync program can also send messages via ARexx to any
- program.
-
- See ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION below for customizing this program.
-
-
- ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION
- ----------------------
-
- This program is cusomized via the use of ToolTypes. ToolTypes are
- strings stored in the program's icon that can be read by the program
- at runtime. If you do not know how to view or edit an icon's
- ToolTypes, consult your Amiga Workbench documentation.
-
- All the ToolTypes have defaults designed to make this program run in
- conjunction with the Media Madness Player supplied with Bars&Pipes
- Professional 2.0. You will typically need to change only a few
- ToolTypes.
-
- TOOLTYPES FOR MTC Sync
- ----------------------
-
- DIRECTPORT=portname default: "MMPlayer_Direct"
-
- This option specified the name of the port to send direct sync
- messages to. These messages are in a special format and only Blue
- Ribbon products are able to understand them.
-
- DIRECT=on/off default: ON
-
- This option defines whether direct messages are sent or not. If
- this option is set OFF, ARexx messages will be sent instead.
-
- AREXXPORT=portname default: "MMPlayer_ARexx"
-
- This option specified the name of the port to send ARexx messages
- to. The actual ARexx messages sent are defined below.
-
- SENDFRAME=on/off default: ON
- FRAMEMSG=msg default: "FRAME 24/25/29/30"
-
- If this message is on, the actual frame rate is sent after the
- first full MTC packet. The actual message is based on the frame rate
- of the incoming MTC packet. You can change the values delimited by
- slahses to change the parameter. For example, to change the parameter
- passed with drop frame time code, you might define:
- FRAMEMSG="FRAME 24/25/30df/30"
-
- SENDSTART=on/off default: OFF
- STARTMSG=msg default: "START SMPTE %s"
-
- If this message is on a start message is sent when the first full
- MTC packet is received (this message is not necessary for the Media
- Madness Player and by default is off). You can change this message to
- whatever you like, placing the characters "%s" (no quotes necessary)
- whereever you wish the current SMPTE time in HH:MM:SS.FF format to be
- inserted.
-
- SENDLOCATE=on/off default: OFF
- LOCATEMSG=msg default: "LOCATE SMPTE %s"
-
- If this message is on a locate message is sent when the first full
- MTC packet is received (this message is not necessary for the Media
- Madness Player and by default is off). You can change this message to
- whatever you like, placing the characters "%s" (no quotes necessary)
- whereever you wish the current SMPTE time in HH:MM:SS.FF format to be
- inserted.
-
- SENDSYNC=on/off default: ON
- SYNCMSG=msg default: "SYNC SMPTE %s"
-
- If this message is on a sync message is sent every frame while
- MIDI time code is being received. You can change this message to
- whatever you like, placing the characters "%s" (no quotes necessary)
- whereever you wish the current SMPTE time in HH:MM:SS.FF format to be
- inserted.
-
- SENDSTOP=on/off default: ON
- STOPMSG=msg default: "STOP"
-
- If this message is on a stop message is sent when the program
- detects that MIDI Time code has stopped being received. It may take
- up to 2 frames to detect that MIDI time code has stopped.
-
- DEVICE=best/serial/osms1/osms2 default: BEST
-
- This option defines which port MIDI Time Code will be received on.
- By default (the "BEST" option) if a One-Stop Music Shop board is
- detected then that MIDI port will be used, otherwise the standard
- serial MIDI interface will be used.
-
- BIGNUM=on/off default: OFF
-
- This option defines how the program displays the SMPTE time. With
- BIGNUM set to OFF, a smaller LED display is used. With BIGNUM set to
- ON a larger, more visible font is used.
-
- BURNIN=on/off default: OFF
-
- If this option is on, the program opens its own screen to be used
- for genlocking, with the current MTC frame being the only thing
- displayed. Otherwise, a window opens up on the Workbench screen to
- display this information.
-
- The following options are valid only if BURNIN=ON:
-
- LEFTEDGE=num default: 84 (BIGNUM=OFF: 92)
- TOPEDGE=num default: 170 (BIGNUM=OFF: 180)
-
- These options define the pixel position of the top left corner of
- the SMPTE frame display on the BURNIN screen.
-
- FGCOLOR=red,green,blue default: workbench colors
- BKCOLOR=red,green,blue default: workbench colors
-
- These options define the colors for the BURNIN screen. Each of
- the red, green, and blue values are numbers from 0 to 15. While
- genlocking, the background color will always be transparent - this
- color option is provided only for completeness. For example, to make
- the forground white:
- FGCOLOR=15,15,15
-