MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV Interface USB (Mac)MIDI Timepiece AV is an 8x8 MIDI interface patchbay, and merger with an integrated synchronizer.
Combine MIDI with ADATs™, ProTools™, or video. The MIDI Timepiece AV takes MOTU's world-renowned MIDI Time Piece II and adds synchronization that you really need, like video genlock, ADAT sync, and word clock sync. Even Digidesign superclock!
Slave ADATs, Digidesign hardware or word-clock compatible devices to SMTPE and video. Drive your ADATs from your sequencer without an Alesis BRC™. Or control everything from an MMC controller like JL Cooper's CuePoint™. The MTP AV pulls it all together for stable, centralized, hassle-free synchronization and MIDI networking. For Macintosh®, Windows®, and stand-alone setups.
The MTP AV is also an 8x8 merger and router. You can merge any combinations of the eight inputs simultaneously to any combination of the eight outputs. Because the MTP AV's internal memory can be programmed from the front panel, the MTP AV is the perfect choice for live performance applications where fast and flexible MIDI patching is essential. You can take the MTP AV on the road because it can operate with or without a computer. The MTP AV can be set to change scenes in response to patch changes, allowing remote control from any MIDI controller.
Features
- MIDI Time Stamping (MTS) ready
- Stand-alone MIDI patchbay/merger/processor
- Synchronization for ADAT, digital audio, and video
- ADAT Sync Out, Word Sync Out, and Video Sync In
- 8x8 MIDI merge matrix
- Fully programmable from the front panel
- 8 independent MIDI IN
- 8 independent MIDI OUT
- 128 MIDI channels
- 128 scene, battery-backed memory
- Recall setups via MIDI patch change
- Includes software for Macintosh and Windows®
- Works with Alesis LRC™ remote control unit
Networking
- USB connectivity allows you to add as many independent MTP AV, MIDI Express XT and micro Express interfaces as your computer system can handle
- Network 2 units for 16 MIDI IN and OUT and 256 MIDI channels via 8-pin network port *
- Fully network-compatible with MTP I and MTP II *
- Network units up to 1,000 feet apart *
* 8-pin networking not currently available under Windows.
MIDI Processing
- Merge any inputs to any outputs
- Route any inputs to any outputs
- Mute any MIDI data on any cable
- Re-channelize on input and output
Synchronization
- SMPTE time code (LTC) generater and reader
- Converts LTC to MIDI Time Code (MTC), ADAT Sync and word clock (1x or Digidesign 256x "Superclock")
- Converts MTC to LTC, ADAT Sync and word clock (or Digidesign "superclock")
- Genlocks to video or blackburst and converts to LTC, MTC, ADAT Sync, and word clock (or Digidesign "superclock")
- SMPTE "Jam Sync" for dropout-free sync
- Adjustable Freewheeling
- Supports all SMPTE frame rates (24, 25, 29.97 drop/non-drop, 30 drop/non-drop)
- 0.1% pull-up/pull-down for digital audio with video Sync applications w/computer
- Stripe frame-locked LTC onto video tape
- Control ADATs with MIDI Machine Control (MMC) from sequencer or DAW software
- Varispeed ADATs and Digidesign ProTools systems while slaving them to LTC, MTC, or video
- Substitutes for Alesis BRC™ for synchronization and MMC transport control of ADATs
- Converts LTC to word clock or "superclock" just like the Digidesign SMPTE Slave Driver™
- Converts video to word clock or "superclock" just like the Digidesign Video Slave Driver™
Sync applications w/out a computer
- Slave your ADATs to LTC
- Slave your ADATs to video via LTC
- Generate LTC and MTC while resolved to video
- Control ADATs with MMC (e. g. Alesis LRC™ or JL Cooper CuePoint™)
