Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

second clip, and leave just pure visual.
Let's now say that I take my fab VTR and stripe one channel of my
little videotape. I now have a videotape with a lot of funny sounding
noise -- BUT, I can use that noise with my rig to put my own sound in.
Ok, now I have something like this:
VTR --audio--> PPS-100 -- MIDI (MTC) --> Computer
Since the video tape is playing SMPTE time code, and that time code is
being interpreted by the computer via Midi Time Code, my computer
knows what frame of VIDEO I'm on, every time I record something with a
MTC-aware sequencer.
Cakewalk is one such sequencer. It allows you to compose and edit
music in a number of graphical formats, and allows you precise editing
and control of your MIDI sounds and equipment. Assuming my
connections are right up 'till this point, when I press the Record
button on my sequencer, it knows what frame of video the VTR is
playing. This by itself is not really neat or anything, but the
advantage becomes clear when you PLAY the sound.
Locking the sequencer to the video tape means that if Cakewalk has a
cue for a cymbal crash at frame 01:00:01:15.13
(reel:hour:minute:second:frame), it plays a cymbal crash when the VTR
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