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MMP-16 Tascam MMP-16 Owner’s Manual • Chapter 1 • General Information

The MMP-16 will directly play back material created on Digidesign Pro Tools or WaveFrame digital

audio workstations, as well as OMF Compositions which reference Sound Designer II audio media files.

The disk drive or drives containing edited Session, Project, or OMF files are simply “unplugged” from

the workstation and then “hot-plugged” into the MMP-16, using the standard internal Kingston hard drive

carrier, or otherwise connected to the MMP-16’s external SCSI port. Once the drive(s) are mounted by

the MMP-16, tracks from one or more projects may be loaded as required for the mix session. Sound files

of the same or different audio formats may thus be played back simultaneously from one or more drives.

When the MMP-16 is turned on for the first time, the system default operating parameters are installed,

and the machine is placed into the Normal state (see the Functional Overview below). Users can also save

up to ten settings files that have MMP-16 parameters “customized” or set for a particular application.

These settings files are stored on the internal hard drive so that they can be used to instantly reconfigure

the MMP-16 between mix sessions. The MMP-16’s operating parameters can be manually changed

before or even during a mix session, through menu selections. Optional password protection may be used

to prevent some parameters from being changed inadvertently.

Hardware Overview

The MMP-16 comes standard with one removable Kingston drive carrier. The Kingston carrier can hold a

standard SCSI drive for recording and playback of audio tracks. An internal IDE hard drive holds the

operating system, the MMP-16 software, and the parameter settings files. Additional external SCSI drives

can be connected and (after power-up) accessed by the MMP-16. This eliminates having to pre-combine

tracks from multiple drives onto a single drive. A list of approved media drives is given in Appendix B.

The MMP-16 is based on a standard Intel Pentium™ processor-based PC motherboard, with

integral PCI and ISA bus slots running under an industry-standard operating system. The MMP-16

DSP, synchronization, and audio interface boards plug directly into this PC motherboard. There is a

Lithium battery # CR2032 for the CMOS circuit on the motherboard. Caution: Battery May Explode if

Mistreated. Do Not Recharge, Disassemble, or Dispose of in Fire. The MOC (MMP-16 digital-to-

analog Output Converter) boards are in their own shielded cage, connected to the AO-16 (Analog Output)

card via ribbon cables. The PRX (DSP) card performs the audio processing for the MMP-16. A standard

Symbios SCSI-2 controller card also plugs into the PCI bus. The Sync card, the UI/B (User

Interface/Biphase) card, the AO-16 (Analog Output) card, and the DO-16 (AES/EBU Digital Output) card

are all plugged into the ISA bus. The Biphase Operations Board (BOB) occupies a slot on the back panel

to provide connections for the system’s four Biphase inputs and one Biphase output. It is attached to the

UI/B card via a ribbon cable and is not plugged into a slot.

Very high quality 20-bit converters on all analog outputs assure excellent audio fidelity. The MMP-16

uses 24-bit internal digital resolution for all digital audio processing. The MMP-16 plays back audio

stored in standard linear 16-bit or 24-bit sound files. The MMP-16 can read StudioFrame or WaveFrame

sound files as well as Sound Designer II files, AIFC files, and .WAV files, in 16 or 24-bit resolution.

The MMP-16 front panel contains 44 soft-touch keys with most of the common dubber and audio

playback functions available through one or two keystrokes. There are also five large illuminated motion

control buttons (Play, Stop, FF, Rew, Reverse Play) for track playback and “play head” locating, and an

Online button for setting the MMP-16 offline (as a local machine) or online (as a synchronized slave or a

master machine). When the MMP-16 is set as a slave, it can chase SMPTE time code (LTC), biphase

(film tach), a TimeLine Lynx™ module, or another MMP-16 or MMR-8.

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