The new sync box.... when?

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Well, any news?

funkcity

LETS SPEC THE IDEAL SYNC BOX...CALL IT..."SUPERSYNCO"..... Some Fun!

Knowing that we live in a hi-def world and a Standard def world and that Steinberg has some pretty sophisticated protocols
with which to work lets identify:

* ASIO Position protocol.... Does this apply to a SMPTE synchronizer? Internally this might be quite necessary for high accuracy sync.
* Midi TC... I have never used it. But it's probably necessary in the music world.
* System Link. This is a terrific idea however it uses an audio channel to link different machines. Ideally there would be a SL connector on all the sound cards or a seperate sync card to essentially do the same. Currently limited to 3 or 4 machines this link bus should be open-ended10 to 100 machines if needed.
* LTC SMPTE or PAL Timecode generate and receive for locking.
* 9 pin transmit and/or receive for video applications.
* HD Sync Ref seperate HD tri-level sync input switchable on panel front (The new PT HD Sync I/O did NOT get this right)
* SD Sync Ref seperate SD standard Black Burst @ 24, 25,29.9, 30 fps switchable on panel front
* All the sample rates plus -/+.1% pull, and -/+4% pull, and -/+.41% pull
* Al Timecode rates and 29.9 Drop Frame
* Software and hardware menu for all selections
* Motion control buttons on front panel
* A Remote control connector to which you can build your custom console remote transport panel
* Rock stable internal clock with jitter compensation.
* WC in and out all the way up to 384k
* System link master bus with 6 bidirectional cat6 connections

One second lock time
Mute until lock
Lock relay outputs
Timecode readout
Timecode regenerator

And more.... gotta get SOME sleep.

What happened to the Lakers????!!!??? Grrrr!!
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carlkrieger · New Member Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Belgium

another 6 months later - no news yet?
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Fredo · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:27 am Post subject:

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Do you perhaps have a tentative price for the unit?
Thanks,
Tom

davidd · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject:

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Welcome to the club. See you in September, and I'll bet you, with no news whatsoever.

Fredo · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:34 am Post subject:

The box is in full beta, but since there are so many variables involved, it takes a while to test everything and iron out the inperfections and bugs.

Fredo

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

It's September, like I said.

Dave Cooper · Junior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 25

I never thought our facility would go tapeless but it looks like it might happen before this box gets released.

Dave
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Fredo · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:27 am Post subject:

AFAIK, the units are in production at this moment.

Fredo

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

OK, can we know at least appoximately what will say the pricetag?

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Fredo · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject:

Dunno what is causing the delay, but AFAIK there are a complete batch of units ready to ship.

Fredo

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Fredo · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:43 pm Post subject:

No, sorry. I have no idea. That is stuff for the marketing department.

Fredo

Dietz · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:00 pm Post subject:

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

OK, so we're officially in 2010. I have finally come to the conclusion that this thing, whatever it is or will be called, will never see the light of the day.

tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

Ha-ha, now I regret I haven't written my previous post before. It has just been announced that the new sync box is indeed shipping.

Big K · Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject:

I will watch the news and posts about this unit for a while and then decide to go for t or not...
Alpermann+Velte, Rosendahl and more have nice solutions, as well, but a Nuendo gadget would be cool to have, too.
I think I have to waste my Adam Smith zeta 3 synchronizer, after all...
In this thread there was talking of an internal TC i/o... I just want to mention that the old Spectral card had a TC I/O in 1997
which worked quite well with anything I threw at it. It is a pain that the industry wants to sell boxes rather then reliable software/usb conns
to sync... It has been done successfully some time ago, but never got marketed....

Big K
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tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

I have Nuendo 4/Lynx AES16 setup. I get a considerable number of jobs where I somply need to work with various Sony decks. Nuendo doesn't recognize Alpermann+Velte PCI cards. I tried with Rosendahl without success. And now I'm getting the new sync box. It0s already on its way. LTC still rules here.

funkcity · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:50 am Post subject: Well Alright !!!

Well Alright !!!

I saw it at the NAMM show.
I played with a beta unit a few months ago.
It took Digidesign about 4 different products before they got it right.
Colin is no dummy so this should be exactly what is needed.
The manual downloadable here is very descriptive. Cool!
Better late than never! :)
Pricing?
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tmihalic · Junior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 27

About $3KUS. Maybe a few cents less, and I mean literally a few cents.

mahoobley · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject:

So the SyncStation started shipping over a month ago.

You having shipped via a team of trained carrying snails or something, as it doesn't appear to have reached the retailers yet!

Whats going on?
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Fredo · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:55 am Post subject: