Remote timecode trigger, from one computer to another

[Katharine Horowitz]

(I've looked around for directions for this but can't find any.)

My college students and I are looking to experiment with timecode for some of their final projects (particularly the projects that are more musical). 

I am wondering if there is a way I can run timecode from my instructor computer that connects to and triggers the separate computer upon which they are running QLab. I suspect this is a networking thing I'm overlooking (and god help me, it ain't my strongpoint). How can I go about doing this?

(I do know we could just throw a timecode trigger command into their actual workspace, and I did get that working, but I want to see if we can set up a remote thing. For my education and theirs.)

Specs: QLab V4 (latest version) and Monterey OS.

Thanks!

[micpool]

Timecode is distributed to multiple devices by two main means.

LTC which is an audio signal. For this you would connect an audio output of your instructor computer, to an audio input of every student computer.

MTC which is a MIDI protocol.. For this you need a midi output from the instructor computer to each student computer.

MTC can be sent over a network, but doing this can be fiddly, and doesn’t really present Timecode   as clearly as an easily understood, audio or MIDI signal routing,

Also timecode with QLab4 is limited to triggering on a matched timecode value. QLab5 chases Timecode.

I’m not sure that giving the impression to students that they are presenting skills in using Timecode in their final projects, because they have a few cues triggered by a Timecode value match rather than a midi trigger or OSC message in QLab4 isn’t misleading. 

With QLab5 it is possible to convey an understanding of how TC can be used, outside the narrow confines of the QLab4  implementation.

Mic

[Katharine Horowitz]

Caution noted. Thank you, Mic.

[Kyle Jensen]

Hey Katharine,

You can set up a network MIDI device on your computer in Audio MIDI setup, and then set a timecode cue to output to that network MIDI device using MIDI Timecode (MTC). Then you can have the other computer connect to that network MIDI session and, like you said, have the Cue List trigger from incoming timecode. 

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