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im trying to sync between 2 pc (midi cable and smpte)
everything works nice but slave pc start after 2.16sec. i put this question to gearslutz but they said to set the offset by -2.16sec which is not possible in sonar. somehow what i understand after hitting the 1st pc 2nd pc understand after 2.16sec...
can anyone help.

thanks

that's the nature of this setup...
pc2 gets TC and tries to sync...
SMPTE is TC format, so maybe you're only able to deal with frames (1sec = 25 frames).
Sonar should be able to set a offset in hh;mm;ss;fr format.
Personally I don't feel very cool syncing 2 systems like this... Even if Master is for sound
and 2nd pc 'only' for picture, you will get 3 slightly different results when playing back 3 times...
I would prefer transmitting SMPTE via network not via midi cable...It is faster... Most apps written for that have a offset feature built in...
I'm using mol by musiclab cause it's crossplatform but I'm sure there are freeware apps for only pc.
http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm
I personally think a 'all in one box' solution is much more reliable, that's why I went MAC (Logic with node feature) or I use ProTools satellite... (I don't own it )