Tascam FW-1884 new 1.70 driver

The Tascam site now has the new 1.70 driver for the FW-1884.

For those running 64 bit Vista and who have more than 2 GB RAM, the new driver is said to fix the noise problems.

http://www.tascam.com/products/fw-1884;9,14,46,19.html

Thanks for the info!!!!

I had to part with my 1082 because it would not work in a 64 bit environment and the e-mail communication I received from Tascam (which took about a month to get) stated that they don't plan on doing anything about it. So I sold it. Although I enjoyed by Tascam, the support from the company was god awful.

wow, thanks riojazz!

F@KKER

To my fellow FW-1884 users,

I just rebuilt my DAW, after a horrible Vista 32/MS Update corruption that rendered my machine useless.  Instead of a Vista 32 rebuild, I decided to give Vista 64 a try – Win7 64 isn’t an option for me at this time.  I now have Sonar 8.5 64-bit running with a Presonus Firestudio as the audio interface, and the FW-1884 as a control surface/midi interface only (on seperate TI based firewire cards) via the 1.70 driver.  I thought for some silly reason that I might be able to get away with using the fabled 1.22 Sonar control surface driver (32-bit), but I couldn't get it to work by installing into either the Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces or the 64-bit Program Files\... path.  I couldn't get Sonar to "see" the control surface,  so I decided to install the 64-bit Sonar driver from the Tascam site.  It partially works, but this version appears to be based on the 1.21 code (no big surprise) and it exhibits all the bad behavior we discovered when Sonar 6 released.  Just to recap, here are the things that I’m aware of that don’t work correctly with the 64-bit Sonar CS driver:
 
1)    You can’t arm by selecting a track and hitting “REC”
 
2)    Controlling aux sends is partially Initially, volume and pan will work, until you hit the aux1 button on the FW-1884 again - then it will control the send's pan. To get back to the volume control state, you have to hit the "Flip" button twice.
 
3)    Write Automation controls enable, but won't disable.
 
4)    Selecting a track on the screen doesn't select it on the FW-1884.
  
 
There may be other features not working correctly – I haven’t tested everything, nor have I found a comprehensive list here in the forum.  I suspect that if I install Sonar 32-bit and the 1.22 CS driver in the x(86) path, the FW-1884 will work correctly in 32-bit mode - I’m not ready to go there just yet.  
 
*** Does anyone have the FW-1884 working correctly via Sonar 8.5PE 64 in Vista or Windows 7 64-bit, using the 1.22 CS driver?  If not, this is likely the end of the road.
 
Tascam support says they are doing compatibility testing under Windows 7,  but I couldn’t get them to comment on the 1.22 driver.  I sent them a new message today asking specifically for a 64-bit version (even if it’s just Windows 7) – let’s see if they reply...

Dan
 

It's really begining to look like I'll be going to either RME/Mackie or V-Studio 700 when I go 64-bit/i7.

Too bad, all in all I like the FW-1884, with 1.22 beta SONAR driver and 1.60 Tascam driver.

If the past is a guide, Frontier Design may already have the drivers we need.  Unfortunately, they have to be released through Tascam. 

Some news. 

As you know, in November 2009, Tascam announced they would not be supplying Windows 7 drivers for the FW series, and despite the listing as current on the USA website, said that the equipment was now 'legacy'.

On March 29, Tascam announced the release of OS 10.6 drivers for the FW series.  The notice states that this is the final update for that platform.

Frontier Design then told me they had developed Windows 7 drivers for the FW-1884 and said to contact Tascam for the release date.

Yesterday, the Tascam UK Facebook page posted a notice that the 1.80 drivers for the FW series would be released next week.

Of course, that was April Fool's Day, but it looks legit.  There is hope.

Howard, in case you didn't see it, I started a new thread announcing this yesterday.  Take a look here:  http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1984799