I am getting one to use mainly as a controller, and maybe as extra inputs into my RME via adat. Have heard about people getting it to work in Win 10, but curious if any of you use it with SONAR with any luck.
All the best.

ZiggyZarg1
use mainly as a controller, and maybe as extra inputs into my RME via adat.

^^ This is what I do in Win 7 which works fine ^^
 
IIRC someone else did and it supposedly works.
 
My plan is to got WIN 10 on the DAW over Thanksgiving weekend. We'll see.
 
 

Thanks for answering, Ed. Did you have any troubles setting it up? Anything I should be aware of? It will be my first controller of that kind.
All the best.

Mainly you need to install the "legacy" firewire drivers.
 
Win 10 may try to install the modern up to date drivers. Under Win 7 is was a no brainer to install the legacy driver.

Thanks for the heads up. Will double check that I use the legacy drivers, and not "the new fancy stuff" Will hopefully have it here during the first part this coming week. Will probably ask more when the time comes. Looking forwards to it
Thank you for your insight so far, Ed.
All the best.

Zargg71
Thanks for the heads up. Will double check that I use the legacy drivers, and not "the new fancy stuff" Will hopefully have it here during the first part this coming week. Will probably ask more when the time comes. Looking forwards to it
Thank you for your insight so far, Ed.
All the best.

YW

Search for helpful posts about the Tascam FW-1884 by forum user Deering Amps, who collected all the resources we could find.
 
It's not a question of using the "new fancy" Windows 10 driver.   The legacy Firewire driver is needed because Windows dropped support for Firewire in Windows 8.  You have to find a Firewire driver from Windows 7 (that's the 'legacy' part).  There is a lot more to it, and many of us gave up.  I did, and I'm a retired comp. sci. prof who is very comfortable with operating systems and drivers.  Drivers for this Tascam were written by Frontier Design, who hasn't been heard from since about 2010.  Tascam dropped support for these just after releasing a 64-bit driver for Windows 7 (but not 64-bit for Macs).  All this accounts for why you see these units for sale, and why many users said they would not buy from Tascam again.  I understand that Tascam is writing their own drivers now for new equipment, but that doesn't help us who have a great piece of equipment going unused.

Zarggy,
 
Did you upgrade to Win 10 from Win 7?
 
If so it might be easier to revert (if you did not delete the revert files). Get the Tascam drivers and legacy firewire driver working in 7 and then re-upgrade to Win 10.
 
Or you could wait to see if that works for me when I upgrade to Win 10 over Thanksgiving.
 
If for me (since I have my FW-1884 working in Win 7) Win 10 fails I will revert back to 7 until such time that I can afford a Berhinger X-Touch.

If it works with Win 8.1, it should work with Win 10.
MS released a signed legacy Firewire driver for win8/8.1 after 18 months or so of user complaints. I have used this after upgrading my PC and installing win 8.1. I suggest using this rather than the Win 7 Firewire driver if the provided Win 10 Firewire driver does not work.
You can D/L it here.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2970191
If you use the W7 firewire driver in W8.1 x64, you have to run Win 8.1 in the "Driver evaluation mode" since the W7 is not properly signed . This is not necessary with the newer Win 8.1 driver. 
However, I read somewhere (Cubase forum ?) that Win 10 contains the legacy driver  AND it works with FW-1884.
As far as the Tascam/Sonar driver(s), with win 8.1, I had to install in compatability mode for W7 and I assume this will be necessary for W10 as well.
I have a new SSD intended for dual boot win10/7 on my old studio PC just for evaluation. I just need to download and install. If all goes well, I can move that box back to the studio and give it a try with the FW-1884. But like Bapu, that may not happen until the holiday.
 
If I did not need a Win 10 PC for work purposes, I am not sure that I would upgrade any of my PCs (2 desktops, 3 laptops on W8.1) until I absolutely must. I am very happy with Win 8.1 and unless I see some performance improvement with Sonar/Cubase on Win 10, I would probably stick with 8.1 (on my studio PC at least).

riojazz
Search for helpful posts about the Tascam FW-1884 by forum user Deering Amps, who collected all the resources we could find.
 
It's not a question of using the "new fancy" Windows 10 driver.   The legacy Firewire driver is needed because Windows dropped support for Firewire in Windows 8.  You have to find a Firewire driver from Windows 7 (that's the 'legacy' part).  There is a lot more to it, and many of us gave up.  I did, and I'm a retired comp. sci. prof who is very comfortable with operating systems and drivers.  Drivers for this Tascam were written by Frontier Design, who hasn't been heard from since about 2010.  Tascam dropped support for these just after releasing a 64-bit driver for Windows 7 (but not 64-bit for Macs).  All this accounts for why you see these units for sale, and why many users said they would not buy from Tascam again.  I understand that Tascam is writing their own drivers now for new equipment, but that doesn't help us who have a great piece of equipment going unused.

Hi, and thanks for sharing. I read, and have saved the Deering Amps (Tascam SONAR x1) page for future references. The bit about the new fancy drivers was a poorly attempt of being humoristic (sorry).
I will be using it as a control surface, and hope that I will get it working. 
All the best.