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Stop freewheeling, Generator section, Level – MOTU 828x 28x30 Audio Interface with ThunderTechnology User Manual

Page 115: Tach light, Destination, Stripe, Regenerate, Setting up for smpte time code sync, Resolving cubase or nuendo to time code

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The 828x cannot freewheel address without clock.
Therefore, the

Freewheel Address

setting will always

be lower than or equal to the

Freewheel Clock

setting, and both menus will update as needed,
depending on what you choose.

The ‘Infinite’ freewheel setting

The

Infinite

freewheel setting in the

Freewheel

Clock

menu causes the 828x to freewheel

indefinitely, until it receives readable time code
again. To make it stop, click the

Stop Freewheeling

button.

Stop Freewheeling

The Stop Freewheeling button stops the system if it
is currently freewheeling.

GENERATOR SECTION

The Generator section (on the right-hand side of
the window in Figure 10-1) provides settings for
generating SMPTE time code.

Level

Turn the level knob to adjust the volume of the
SMPTE time code being generated by the 828x.
The level knob disappears when the Destination is
set to

None

.

Tach light

The Tach light blinks once per second when the
828x is generating SMPTE time code.

Destination

In the

Destination

menu, choose either

SMPTE

(to

generate time code) or

None

(to turn it off).

Stripe

Click this button to start or stop time code. To set
the start time, click directly on the SMPTE time
code display in the Generator section and type in
the desired start time. Or drag vertically on the
numbers.

Figure 10-2: Setting the time code start time.

Regenerate

This option, when enabled, causes the generator to
generate time code whenever the 828x is receiving
SMPTE time code.

SETTING UP FOR SMPTE TIME CODE SYNC

To set up direct SMPTE time code synchroni-
zation, see “Syncing to SMPTE timecode” on
page 31
.

RESOLVING CUBASE OR NUENDO TO TIME
CODE

To resolve your 828x and Cubase or Nuendo
directly to SMPTE time code with no additional
synchronization devices, use the setup shown in
“Syncing to SMPTE timecode” on page 31. Make
sure the

Clock Source

setting in the MOTU Audio

Console window is set to

SMPTE

. Also, make sure

that you’ve connected an LTC input signal to an
828x analog input, and that you’ve specified that
input in the

SMPTE Source

menu in SMPTE

Console.

Click here to edit
the start time, or
drag vertically on
the numbers.