{"id":1,"date":"2018-03-22T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-03-24T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:46:54","slug":"mtr-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/2018\/03\/22\/mtr-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Otari MTR-12 MIDI-controlled Autolocator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my quest for digital control of our analogue mastering facility, I have been looking at the reel to reel machines. I would like to be able to fully control the 1\/4&#8243; machine (Otari MTR-12) from the computer.\u00a0 I could make a simple remote for it, but how boring would that be? An auto-locator would be much better, but they are rare nowadays, and wouldn&#8217;t do exactly what I have in my head anyway. <strong>So, the big question is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Could one make an Arduino microcontroller act as a midi-controlled auto-locator for an Otari MTR-12?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After some careful analysis of the schematic for the old auto-locator offered by Otari, I can&#8217;t see any reason why one couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The brains for this functionality are actually in the tape machine, and the auto-locator is really just some switches and digital display elements. The timing for the digital circuit may be the only challenging aspect of the project, as I would like the tape and locate times to be reported properly and instantly, of course.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will dive into it and report my progress. Should be fun and interesting. Feel free to make fun of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my quest for digital control of our analogue mastering facility, I have been looking at the reel to reel machines. I would like to be able to fully control the 1\/4&#8243; machine (Otari MTR-12) from the computer.\u00a0 I could make a simple remote for it, but how boring would that be? An auto-locator would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitewave.ca\/IWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}