REGENERATION

The process of taking incoming SMPTE, which may have shaping problems or dropouts, and generating new, perfect SMPTE, that is perfectly time-locked to old SMPTE. This process is called regeneration because instead of being generated for the first time, the SMPTE is being "regenerated" from another SMPTE source. Also, the feeding of the output of a delay device back into its input to create multiple echoes.