happy when it's working, but not ecstatic. kinda like when gas goes "back down" to $3.00 a gallon...

F@KKER

Wow! this is great news!

My brothers and I thank everyone who got the ball rolling: DK, Jay Stevens, Manthe, dcasey, hockeyJx, ChonoT52 (and everyone else in the Forum who has written Tascam), Brian at Frontier, Mr. Jackson at Tascam, Tascam, and Cakewalk for getting it done. We hope it works great! After studying a little Java in college, let us tell you , the programmers at Frontier and Tascam worked very hard! Great work Frontier Brainiacs

We have asked Mr. Jackson to be Beta testers, as well. I bet everyone in the forum would want to be Beta testers :-)

In our opinion, FW-1884 is still the BEST all in one Interface/DAW Controller/Midi interface on the market. This is true especially if you intend to use Gigastudio with Sonar as my brothers and I will ( GSIF 2.0 drivers).

I hope Tascam and Cakewalk appreciate how loyal we Sonar and FW-1884 users are to their products: after more than one year we all kept the faith that they wouldn't abandon us. Thank you Tascam, Cakewalk, Frontier, and all the Fw-1884 fanatics! It came just in time just in time for our new Fall semester at ASU.

Continued success for all,

Joseph, and Jaye C Rosenstock

DK:
I agree with your summary. My reference to "whinning" is directed to those who have the time to "whine" but can't seem to find the time to direct their energies into getting results by formal letter writing, etc. Of course we are frustrated; of course Tascam's tardiness is unacceptable but clogging up this forum with rants accomplishes zero. I think you'll also agree that letters are more weighty than phone calls and emails. IMH(BA)O.

In the future when we encounter problems, I think a steady stream of firm but respectfully written letters to Tascam senior management will produce the quickest results.

ORIGINAL: Jay Stephen

DK:
I agree with your summary. My reference to "whinning" is directed to those who have the time to "whine" but can't seem to find the time to direct their energies into getting results by formal letter writing, etc. Of course we are frustrated; of course Tascam's tardiness is unacceptable but clogging up this forum with rants accomplishes zero. I think you'll also agree that letters are more weighty than phone calls and emails. IMH(BA)O.

In the future when we encounter problems, I think a steady stream of firm but respectfully written letters to Tascam senior management will produce the quickest results.

Could not agree more Jay

I think you are to be highly commended here - That letter you sent may have been a catalyst to get this moving.

Many people here have been very actively engaging the respective parties and I personally appreciate all those efforts!

Cautiously optimistic......................

ok, some more rant...

don't you just hate apps that have no progress bars when rendering? this is what Tascam is doing, we have no idea where they are at other than the recent posts here, argghh...

F@KKER

I was sure that by now, someone would have posted their comments on the drivers, hmmm...

F@KKER

Sorry that I'm whining, but it honestly irks me to death that I've been politely emailing them with status requests- not demands- and in return I'm not contacted about a beta driver, or much less, graced even a simple response this time from my Tuesday email.

I simply don't get it. I can tell you something- if I get a driver from them, I don't care if they tell me that it's under "double secret probation-" it's getting hosted immediately at every outlet that I can find with my signature on the download and this .JPG with that goober on one side and my middle finger at the other. What's the worst they can do- threaten to delay the release of the final version longer?

Then again, I don't wanna make him cry. He looks unstable as it is.

I'm hearing that ol familiar silence again...........................

Easy fellas'...I'm working on a way to host it now...I hope to have it up today or tomorrow. I DON'T have the file in my hands, but I am setting up an account and a storage point for someone who does. Give me a day or so...

ORIGINAL: manthe

Easy fellas'...I'm working on a way to host it now...I hope to have it up today or tomorrow. I DON'T have the file in my hands, but I am setting up an account and a storage point for someone who does. Give me a day or so...

I wasn't directing my statement at you manthe- sorry about the confusion. I appreciate you setting up the fileshare- I just hope you get the file- those who are supposedly in possession of this elusive file are who my statement was directed to.

Thank you hockeyjx- we all GREATLY appreciate this. I'll post my review before the night is out. We'd love to hear what you think as well.

I haven't gone through all the squawks yet, but I can confirm that the new dll does fix at least two of my main problems:

- selecting tracks on screen now causes the tracks on the 1884 to be selected

- Arming tracks for record now works as it should (can 'sel' track and punch 'rec')

HW

I'll forgive these things since this is beta. Anyone else try the update?

It's a step in the right direction. I've been watching this thread for weeks. I've had my share of problems with this thing in the past. I bought this thing when it first came out and all i got was a manual and a power cord - No disc. I went back to GC and I had bought the first of two units and neither had driver disc or firewire cable. Every driver I had was from the net and every one of them was better and added features (Virtual midi channels,etc) I've used the crap out of it and it still works great. Hopefully Tascam will get the drivers up to date because I plan on using it for a long time.

Tom

I have sent these details to both - suggest all those who are putting this thru the paces do the same

hockeyjx is absoloutely right - Maybe if we stay on top of it we will get where we want to be!

It's better though! - I guess I should change my disposition a little..........nah....not just yet