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Preparing the D3200
Decide on which track you are going to record the Tape sync signal. Then route the sync signal to aux1 (or aux2).
Just klick "Mixer" Button, choose "SEND (EFF/AUX/REC)" and select the "Aux Send" panel. Switch the channel with the recorded sync signal to "pre" and turn it up as desired. Don't forget to turn up the aux level in the bottom right corner too. Then you can use the aux jack to feed the sync signal to your synthesizer and don't have to pollute the cue mix / monitor signal with the sync signal.
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Multitracking MIDI and DIN gear with Tape Sync from a TR-707
(MC-202 users, please scroll down)
When you have a multitrack recorder, the easiest way to sync DIN and MIDI gear to each other, is to let the Roland TR-707 or TR-727 do the job, because as a Master, it sends MIDI, DIN and TAPE sync. However, when you want to record another track afterwards, with a unit that only slaves to DIN sync, what to do? The multitracker can not send out a DIN signal to the unit. But the 707 can.
Here comes the problem: the 707 only sends DIN and MIDI sync, when it receives a TAPE SYNC signal. Owwww. So we first have to slave the 707 to a TAPE sync signal from the multitracker, and then slave the other units to the 707. That means we have to start by creating a TAPE SYNC signal on the multitracker first. At the expense of one track. The 707 provides the TAPE sync signal from the SYNC OUT jack.
1. Record the TAPE sync signal to the multirecorder
Do not record anything else, just only record the TAPE sync signal. The reason is, when you encounter latency, you would like to have the SAME latency for all of the units. When you only use the recorded TAPE sync signal to synchronise all the other units with, you will have the same latency every time. And thus you won't have any.
- the 707 sends a tape sync signal in PATTERN mode and in TRACK mode, but only listens to tape sync in TRACK mode. So make sure you have programmed a long track in the 707 ;)
- don't forget to record approx. five seconds of the "lead in" beep (called "the pilot"), before starting the 707. This will later give the 707 some time to adjust when it listens to this signal, making the sync more reliable.
- do not use any effects or noise suppression on the TAPE sync track.
2. Rewind and play the TAPE sync to the 707. Slave the other unit(s) to the 707.
- the TR-707 has to be in TRACK mode
- slave the 707 to tape ("S-t") and press START. The 707 will wait for the TAPE sync "pilot" signal.
- start with the "pilot" beep, so the 707 can quietly adjust before it starts.
- the TR-707 stops, when the TRACK finishes or when the TAPE sync signal ends, whichever comes first.
- make sure you only send a clean TAPE sync signal to the 727, no music.
This way you can record six TB-303's, having only one. A quick test resulted in this track:
This is the setup, it's a bit of a loop that starts and ends with the multitracker:
- the multitracker sends a clean a TAPE sync from a dedicated OUT port to the 707
- the 707 converts TAPE to DIN sync and relays that to the 303
- the 303 slaves to this signal
- the multitracker records the 303, while still sending the TAPE sync signal
Multitracking DIN gear with Tape Sync from a MC-202
For synchronizing DIN gear only, you can also achieve the same results with a Roland MC-202 as with the TR-707 (see above). Tape-syncing to a 202 even has one great advantage: when CYCLE is set to ON, the 202 will keep playing until the sync signal ends. Unfortunately the 707 stops when the programmed Track has finished.
The procedure for the recording of the TAPE sync signal using the 202 is the same as with the 707.
Synchronizing the 202 to the TAPE sync signal is a bit different, because the 202 sync has to be started during the "pilot" tone:
- first program a few notes into the 202 sequencer
- then set the 202 to PLAY mode, set CYCLE to ON
- keep holding the SHIFT button while performing the next steps:
- 1. press TAPE SYNC (the STEP number goes out)
- 2. start the multitracker and feed the Pilot tone to the 202
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3. during the Pilot tone, press START
- 4. you can now release the SHIFT button
The 202 will drop out of TAPE sync immediately when:
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(1) you release the SHIFT button before pressing PLAY, or
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(2) when the 202 does not hear a Pilot tone when you press PLAY.
- when the 202 drops out of TAPE sync, the step number goes ON again.
- during TAPE sync the 202 buttons are locked. The buttons become available again when the sync signal stops.
