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Does anyone know if DP 4.x will play nicely with the Tascam FW1082 ? and is the Tascam FW1082 any good ?

Opinions ??

Thanks all

Tera

I would love to hear comments too!

Just started using the Tascam 1082 with DP 4.6 on a G5 dual 2, as one of the workstations in my (I'm the teacher!) Music Tec facility at college; attached to a couple of Tannoy Reveal 6's, the set-up is abiolutely great. Control surface functions with no problems, audio is sweet as honey - even the MIDI interface (to a Triton) is 100% happy. Very highly reccommended.
Colin Orr
http://www.janus-music.com

Gibble wrote:Does anyone know if DP 4.x will play nicely with the Tascam FW1082 ? and is the Tascam FW1082 any good ?

Opinions ??

Thanks all

Tera

I hate 4.6 but love 4.52 because of the stupid CPU spikes I seem to get on any of my machines with any of my interfaces
Just to preemt my comeents

I love my tascam it works well with DP 4.xx and the control surface has a special file to run with DP so thats even better
It is easy to use and has not missed a beat and is alot more flexable and uses way less cpu than my mlan card i use to use.
what else can i rell you ?

Highly Recommended...I ditched my MOTU 828...and now very happy with the Tascam FW-1082....

Kris..

I've never used the FW-1082, but I've been using the FW-1884 for a while now. First with a powerbook, and now with a tower. I can recomend it without hesitation.

I was using a 002 pro tools rig for a few years (since they first came out). I sold it a few months ago and bought the tascam and DP and couldn't be happier with that choice....it's so flexible.

only complaint....no scribble strips!!!!! what were they thinking?

FrontlineStudios (on UNICORNATION) uses that setup. to my knowledge, he hasnt had any issues.

Thankyou to all who responded to my question. It looks like the FW1082 is well liked by those who use it, and it appears to have the feature set that I want, so, I'm off to order mine !!

Once again

Thanks

Tera

Tera[/quote]
I love my tascam it works well with DP 4.xx and the control surface has a special file to run with DP so thats even better
It is easy to use and has not missed a beat and is alot more flexable and uses way less cpu than my mlan card i use to use.
what else can i rell you ?[/quote]

what special file is this? I got a fw 1884 -

just getting back into Dp after years of PT

Do you use mackie control or HUI emulation?

In PT very easy to flip to auxes for stuff like reverb sends...

pouring over manual now...

have managed by pressing something to get flip to aux 4 ( can't flip to to 1-3) which appears to control aux 1. As for the rest....

OK OK so I haven't been to the tascam site in a while,,,,

working better now!!!

my problem with the FW-1884 is that you have to be listening to the same mix as the player/singer. You can only have direct input monitoring on ONE mix. I can't find any way around this, and it is quite a limitation. So much so that I'm dumping my FW-1884.

If anyone knows a way around this, let me know.

Thanks,

j

try set player's mix from aux's?

ie every channel has an aux send set to a stereo bus. ( recommend prefader in this instance)

then route that us to an aux input

route aux out to a physical output ( ie different ones to your monitor - presume you have an amp for their heaphones/mons )

that should do it.

Yeah, but if you do it that way, there's latency equal to the buffer, right? When I do it that way, there's an annoying delay (latency) that really makes it impossible for a singer/player. Have you tried this set up?

Are you saying that you set up this aux mix in DP? I'm sure that's what you're saying, but maybe there's some other way you're saying to do it.


Thanks,

j

Coould you send the singer the "zero latency" mix and then use aux's to get a 2nd mix for you? (presuming you are monitoring and not playing yourself)