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Did you test the unit on a USB 3.0 port.  Tascam says it works on them. I know Focusrite and Presonus
were having trouble on USB 3.0 ports.

The US-2x2 and 4s4 both work fine with the USB 3.0 ports on my notebook, which was manufactured within the past two years. I have not tested with my desktop yet, whose motherboard was one of the very early ones with USB 3.0. It's pretty squirrely with USB 3.0 devices, so I don't have high expectations. If the TASCAM interfaces work with it, they'll probably work with anything that has USB 3.0.

Thanks for the information

Hey guys I dont want to sound too terribly dumb here but I have to ask about this.. I have a Tascam 1800 I am replacing an old Roland VM 3100 & RPC-1 card, the PCI card died & the drivers were so old that I'd get conflicts. That has been my only interface and it had no latency so when I bought the 1800 I didnt know I should worry about this. Thus far I am running into some rather big issues. The latency (please keep in mind I am referring to it as that but I could be wrong) is so bad that its quite unusable. I dont have playback problems but when I am tracking the guitars are out of synch with each other. Will any of this talk help me out? CNN someone help me?

what would be really nice is if Tascam took the SDK for the fw 1884 and wrote up to date parameters controls for sonar..  Jus Saying I still use it.. It works fine just been losing some controls as newer versions of sonar comes out.
 

djj,
Yeah I use mine as a control surface only now too. Pretty much limited to transport and automation. It seems I'm grabbing the mouse for so many other things that I just kind of stay there longer than I should.

Bapu. I do enjoy real faders when Im mixing, so I can say I will never go 100% with a touch screen only. 
 The nostalgic feel and look of a real mixing board be it a midi contoller , or whatever, just puts me in the zone..  To work . So many things can distract you when your working , So feeling like Im behind a console makes me alittle more inspirational
A touch screen will never replace an actual fader/Knob . But yeah my mouse has been getting more and more love nowadays .

Thanks Craig. In the new year (when I move into a new property) I'm gonna need to by a new interface. I was hellbent on the Focusrite 6i6 but after hearing you rave about the new Tascam US-2x2 and 4x4 units, I'm definitely leaning towards the 4x4 now because I only really need 4 inputs.

Are you still sticking by your guns and saying that these Tascam units hold their own when compared to similar competitive products?

Thanks
YC

yellowcake64
Are you still sticking by your guns and saying that these Tascam units hold their own when compared to similar competitive products?

Talk about putting someone on the spot
 
 

Hardly. No-one will die as a result of the question :-)

yellowcake64
Thanks Craig. In the new year (when I move into a new property) I'm gonna need to by a new interface. I was hellbent on the Focusrite 6i6 but after hearing you rave about the new Tascam US-2x2 and 4x4 units, I'm definitely leaning towards the 4x4 now because I only really need 4 inputs.

Are you still sticking by your guns and saying that these Tascam units hold their own when compared to similar competitive products?

Thanks
YC

Frankly, you can't go wrong with either one. However there are some differences. The 6i6 has S/PDIF I/O; the US series does not have digital I/O (a lot of the parts cost went into the discrete component-based preamps). Also, the TASCAM units put out +44V for phantom power. I measured a Focusrite interface (can't recall which) once when writing a review and it produced about +34V. Normally that's not a problem, but can be for some mics. One of Gibson's product specialists measured the phantom power on a 2i2 and it was also around +34V, so you might want to check the 6i6. I don't know how direct monitoring works on the 6i6, but on the US interfaces, it's stereo and can crossfade with the computer output. 
 
I'm not sure what the gain spec is for the 6i6, but the TASCAM does +57dB, which is more than a lot of other interfaces...important if you're capturing sounds with dynamic mics. That's also enough for ribbons unless the input levels are quite low.
 
I'm using the US-4x4 in my studio because it performs better than the V-Studio audio interface (I still use the V-Studio control surface, though) and besides, i don't need all the I/O the V-Studio provides. If you want to check out the specs, I ran the US-2x2 interface through a Rightmark analyzer (specs are the same for the 4x4) and incorporated them in an article about audio interface specifications. They're quite impressive.

@ djj and bapu,
I think Craig answered our questions in posts 65 thru 72.
The drivers are Frontier's property and Frontier has gone a different direction.
If we want a new SDK, we have to find someone to write it for u$.
 
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