Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
We've started shipping TASCAM products with SONAR X3 LE. More to come.

 

WDI
So if someone buy Sonar X3 LE they get Tascam hardware?
;)

Confirmed..
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
Hover car is confirmed for sure.

I have owned/used a lot of Tascam stuff over the years. Always swore by it (As opposed to "at it" ha ha!) Then, I bought a brand new US2400 control surface, only to soon thereafter, have it completely orphaned by Tascam. That was the last piece of Tascam gear I ever bought. Really upset me that they would just leave all their customers hanging like that. No more support, no more development for the product. Really shook my confidence in them.
 
Now, to be fair.... I do still have the US 2400 and, I use it all the time. It still does what it has always done and does that well. The problem here is, they never finished developing the thing. It does all the basic stuff fine (volume, pan, mute, solo, transport) but, they left a lot of potential for further updates/support untapped.
 
Having said all that, if they came out with a reasonably priced, 16 input interface, that worked great with Sonar (Sort of like a 16 input version of my Echo Audiofire 12), I'd be all over it!!!!! Ha ha!  

SvenArne
By "The Man" I mean Gibson, who dictates the nature and extent of the "synergy" between your subsidiary brands!

You might be surprised how much autonomy the various brands have. Of course, Gibson forced me to work with Cakewalk, but they don't seem to mind too much

Anderton

SvenArne
By "The Man" I mean Gibson, who dictates the nature and extent of the "synergy" between your subsidiary brands!

You might be surprised how much autonomy the various brands have. Of course, Gibson forced me to work with Cakewalk, but they don't seem to mind too much

Not at all :)

bitflipper
Go back and review all the panicked threads after Roland acquired a majority share of Cakewalk. Do a mental search-and-replace, substituting "TASCAM" for "Roland".
 
That relationship lived up to neither the optimistic nor pessimistic forecasts. All we got out of that deal was R-Mix, which nobody ever figured out and only lasted through one SONAR version.
 
Also, consider that before SONAR could be adapted to any TASCAM-specific features, TASCAM products would have to first have some unique proprietary features.

Just to be clear, Cakewalk was acquired by Gibson. We are now part of Gibson Brands and are working closely with all their brands. There is obvious synergy with TASCAM but it won't be limited to just TASCAM.

bapu
Craig,
 
Please get Tascam to revive driver development for the FW-1884 (and it's ilk).
 
Heck, get them to start building the thing again (especially the expander).

as of almost a year ago, i was using Tascam interfaces (us-122, us-122l, us-144) that of course ran great in 32 bit mode, but once i switched to 64 bit and used the latter 2 devices for several months, i had to swear off of them because of how horrible the 64 bit drivers were for the us-122l & us-144. when i contacted tech support, the guy told me that my problem didn't exist (i was getting reverberating "crickets" noises, among other things, every session, every 20-30 minutes that could only be solved by closing Sonar & unplugging the usb cable) and that they would not be updating the 64 bit drivers for the us-122l and us-144. that day, i ordered a Roland Quad Capture (love it) 

I certainly would not criticize the Tascam hardware I have used.  I have used the FW-1884 flawlessly for many years. It is a superb design.
 
My disappointment, shared by many on this forum, is with the drivers.  The driver for this (and a few other similar firewire devices) is actually written by Frontier Design, but is released by Tascam.  In the case of Windows 7 64-bit and SONAR, we had to wait a year for this driver, only to discover that Frontier Design basically had it all along.  Right after that, Tascam posted on the product website that there would be no more support for this unit.
 
We know, from the Tascam Users Forum (Tascam itself has no user forum; this one is run by the users) that the FW-1884 can be made to run under Windows 8.1.  We also know that Microsoft made some changes in Windows 8 that makes that installation quite difficult, involving unsigned drivers and legacy drivers. 
 
Please, Cakewalk, Gibson, anybody: for all the users of SONAR who use this gear that is still fine, the FW-1884 and 1082, ask Tascam what can be done to make the transition to Windows 8.1 more seamless.  It should not be that difficult, because it can work.  For all we know, Frontier Design may again already have the driver we need.  This is the only hardware that is preventing me from moving to Windows 8.1.  I am willing to help organize users and, speaking for myself, am willing to pay for the updated drivers.

bitflipper
Go back and review all the panicked threads after Roland acquired a majority share of Cakewalk. Do a mental search-and-replace, substituting "TASCAM" for "Roland".
 
That relationship lived up to neither the optimistic nor pessimistic forecasts. All we got out of that deal was R-Mix, which nobody ever figured out and only lasted through one SONAR version.
 
Also, consider that before SONAR could be adapted to any TASCAM-specific features, TASCAM products would have to first have some unique proprietary features.

Well, we did get Roland's V-Vocal as well, but now that's on the way out.
I'm a believer that it's never a bad thing for a company as small as Cakewalk to have an affiliation with a wide world big box digital / hardware / instrument manufacturer, as long as it's a good fit, and Cakewalk remains free to develop it's best DAW software.
 
I have owned Tascam hardware for over twenty years, and had few problems. It will be interesting to see if the hardware and software aspects at play with this merger will be fruitful for us all ? I will be curious to see if they develop hardware devices for the bigtime console studios, or for smaller studios such as mine. It seems from the traditions of past Tascam developments they have always catered to both.

So to highlight what we now know is Tascam interfaces will ship with Sonar Software someday, and possibly soon.
But thinking about the Tascam driver issue, I don't think the boys who bake the Cake write the drivers for the Roland Interfaces do they? And those drivers ( Roland)  are not much better than Tascam's when you look at the mixed results people get. Pour RTL etc. 
 

So to highlight what we now know is Tascam interfaces will ship with Sonar Software someday, and possibly soon.
But thinking about the Tascam driver issue, I don't think the boys who bake the Cake write the drivers for the Roland Interfaces do they? And those drivers ( Roland)  are not much better than Tascam's when you look at the mixed results people get. Pour RTL etc.