Sticky Control Surface........Please Help

[jfavela]

I had been doing some research on what type of control surface to add to my studio:

I use a PowerMac G4 dual 867 processors
1.75MB of Ram
Mac OSX.4.8 Tiger
I use MOTU's Digital Performer 4.61
I have 2 UAD-1 PCI cards
with a MOTU 828 mkII

The product I decided to buy is TASCAM's FW-1884.
For the most part it drives DP's most commonly used features great, but it gets sticky when I try to use it with Plug-ins. I've gone over all the documentation and of course, much is yet to be desired. (In my opinion, anyway.)

According to MOTU's tech, I should be running it in HUI emulation, that it's preferred.

The FW-1884 manual says to run it in FW1884 Native mode. (I think this one does work the best.)

And I tried the Mackie Emulation, still no luck driving my DAWs plugs or my UAD plugs.

The problems I'm experiencing are the following:

In using the Shuttle Wheel, when using the SHTL key, many parameters are skipped.

The parameters it does snap to respond, in a word, "chopppy."

Surely a piece of hardware this expensive can be configured to drive the stuff I want it to drive, right?

Turns out Tascam's phone support is difficult at best to talk to and Universal Audio left me hanging.

Can anyone help me?
Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.

Joshua
CIS

[cyborg haines]

Hi Josh,
i‘m using the tascam with Dp for a long time and it works quiet good.
It has some obious bugs though, regarding using it as a surface controller for Dp.
I almost never use this Shuttle wheel for transport for example,
cause it wouldn‘t stop fforward/bkwrd for a long time.
And i think it‘s not possible to control 3d party plugins with that machine.
I‘m using it in native mode, which seems to be the most compatible mode to me.

Now having an Intel Mac they (Tascam) still didn‘t release a UB control surface plugin for Dp, which makes the FW1884 quiet useless as a controller.
But they told me there will be an update one day, so hopefully .......


greetings
Haines

[jfavela]

Do you have any success using it with DPs native plugs?
I am so pissed off right now, words cannot describe.

Joshua

[martian]

the basic functions like EQ controls don't really work on it - they certainly don't match gain freq and q - which skips from band to band or simply don't work....

I've had more success using it with reason

I am very curious how the project mix will work - it has LED display which in my opionion mite be quite useful....

using straightforwrd faders is fine tho... good for mixing..

some people mite use some of the function keys but I doubt it really...

jog wheel works much better in ableton live btw....