Sync Menu. Contains various options for synchronising playback or recording between Audio Evolution and another program, on the same or another computer. See also Tempo and Synchronisation.

Ignore Ignores any MIDI start command or Midi Machine Control (MMC) code. When the Play-button is pressed in the Control window, the samples will be played without waiting for anything.

Send Sends a MIDI start command (and MMC-start when this option is selected in the ŤOptionsť menu) after loading the first sample- parts in memory when the Play-button has been pressed. A Song Position Pointer is also sent. The MIDI commands will be sent via the 'serial.device'.

Receive If this option is selected, the program first waits for an incoming MIDI start command before playing when the Play- button has been pressed. Of course, the first sample parts are loaded into memory first for optimal synchronisation. The MIDI commands would be received from the 'serial.device'.

B&P Receive Waits for a start command from Bars&Pipes. You have to add the 'AudioEvolution.ptool' in B&P to a track first. You will also have to start Audio Evolution first before starting Bars&Pipes. First press play or record in Audio Evolution, wait for the harddisk activity to finish and then press play in B&P.

CAMD Receive If this option is selected, AudioEvolution waits for a MIDI start or continue command via the camd.library. In this way, any program using the camd.library can be synchronised to Audio Evolution.

AREXX Receive This option waits for an ARexx start command. Programs such as Bars and Pipes or Mediapoint can send out ARexx commands at specific times. It is also possible to send a command across an Envoy network from one Amiga to another, using EnvoyARexx from Aminet. The port name for AE is "AE_AREXX". The commands available so far are "play", "stop" and "loadsample". The last is used with an argument, for example:

"loadsample filename Work:audio/samples/example.AIFF".

The file AETest.rexx shows an example of usage.

Master Control Bus If this option is selected, AudioEvolution waits for a command from the Master Control Bus program. This allows several programs which are connected to the MCB server to start and stop playing together. Thus you can synchronise Audio Evolution to a MIDI ot animation player, for example. For more details, see the MCB documentation.