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I just purchased a Tascam DM4800 with Firewire Card and I can't for the life of me get DP to sync with the card. I have even replaced the card and the same thing happens. The Firewire card works great with Soundtrack Pro, Itunes, Waves GTR and anything else I throw at it, so I'm convinced that it's something I need to do with DP. Anyone with a similar setup that this works for, help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance.

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IMHO, you're better off getting the MOTU 2408mk3 and connect everything via (3) TDIF cables. Better connection, you don't have the driver issues and it gives you hardware i/o to monitor the audio stream.

Have you tried playing with Work Priority? MOTU hardware generally takes "High', but other manufacturer's stuff often works better at "Medium" or "Low."

I agree with Brad. I have a DM4800 and 2 2408's It works great with DP. I also bought an extra tdif card (don't buy the adat card I had 2 and couldn't get either of them to sync with DP). I have the 3 tdif I/O's that come with the board hooked into my first 2408 and the Adat and the new tdif card into my 2nd 2408. Everything works fine.

Bill

I have a DM4800 and have sync'ed it with DP. First thing is there is a separate PDF document that you can download from tascam that tells you how to do it.
I could not do it without calling tascam and they sent me
the file. After I set it up I could sync DP and DM4800 but it was not great. It would lose sync very easy and change hit points so I stopped using it. So if you need spot on sync I would investigate something else.
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