Digital Audio Clocking

You may not be familiar with Digital Audio Clocking or you have avoided it completely because it seems too daunting. Either way, this short video by audio engineer and HowAudio.com master teacher, Jeff Dykhouse, will explain it and leave you with a solid foundational understanding of the subject.

Why is it important? If you are running multiple audio interfaces the chances of a sync problem exist. Understanding Digital Audio Clocking will resolve many of the issues that you may face.

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[JuanPabloCuervo]

missed the SRC for re-clocking machines that Not have a WordClock In, like digital oberheim synth, waldorf q, Roland Varios, Kenton Plugstation, Yamaha Aieb2, sollutions like tc konnect x32, drawmer m-clock, z-sys z3src, lynxstudio, lavry, mytek, etc...

also forgot about wordclock jitter even with small cable runs, coax vs. optical, also clock distortion with bad 75ohm RG-59 cable, also diferent master clocks brands, also digital audio L&R travels in serial, but your drawing looks parallel

[HowAudioTV]

Stay tuned - - - more to come.

[eddysel10]

Excellent video. The first time i really understand the importance of the clock!!

Thanks

[alinamusix]

Thank you very much! This is a first time I've ever actually understood what clocking is all about!

[Yaoyay]

Good explanation.

[zardashty]

Excellent video .

[blackjesus1026]

Great explaination! My question is can I clock at any sample rate even if 1 or more devices can only clock at 44.1 or 48? For example my mixer can only clock at 44.1 or 48 and my interface can clock up to 96. If i set my mixer as the slave, can i clock at 96k from the interface?

[allen764]

does anybody know what is wrong with the howaudio websight. i get an error 404 message when trying to go there?

[joshuarlyon]

Excellent Video! I searched Apogee's website for an hour for something like this... Keep'em coming!

[uptoenail]

Great vid.  Thx

[jephthastudios]

Yes, but they can't share the same soundcard/interface. You'd take a digital output from logic and run it in to a digital input on your Pro Tools interface. Then take a MIDI cable, connect the two and enable MMC (midi machine control) on both PT and Logic. Make PT the master and Logic the slave. When you roll PT, Logic will receive the MMC "play" message and roll. You might have to enable MTC on both machines as well... I've seen it work, but haven't set it up myself so good luck!!

[epsonhell]

hey great video thanks for the info.

is it possible to have 2 computers, one running protools and one running logic and have logic sync to pro tools?