Attention all Sonar 8/8.5 users with a Tascam FW-1884
If you have any designs on moving to a 64-bit OS (Vista or Windows 7) and you are a Tascam FW-1884 user - please help lobby Teac/Tascam to provide a new 64-bit Sonar Control Surface driver based on the 1.22 (beta) CS driver code. I won't go into detail on the lineage of the 1.22 CS driver, it is discussed elsewhere in this forum – it's required for full functionality in Sonar 6 and above.
I recently made an incremental step toward 64-bit by going to Vista 64, while I'm waiting for drivers for Win7 64. My experience is that Sonar 64 won't work with the 1.22 (32-bit) driver that most of us are using in the 32-bit world (XP and Vista 32). I couldn't get Sonar 64 to recognize the FW-1884 by placing the 1.22 CS driver in either the Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces or Program Files x(86)\... paths. I have not yet tried Sonar 32-bit with the 1.22 driver under Vista 64, but it did work fine for me on Vista 32. I do however have partial functionality by using the 64-bit Sonar CS driver Tascam has on their site, but this driver is based on the 1.21 code - thus providing limited functionality in Sonar 8.5PE 64.
Even if you are unsure about taking your FW-1884 to 64-bit, your help would be greatly appreciated. The email address for Tascam is
CUSTSER@TEAC.COM. Tell them you are specifically interested in a 64-bit Sonar Control Surface driver based on the functionality in the unreleased/beta 1.22 (32-bit) driver. This driver was never posted to the Tascam site, but was given to many of us by Teac support.
For the record - I would love to have a VS700C, but I just don’t have $2,500 just laying around. So unless Cakewalk/Roland does a cash for clunkers – I’m stuck with the FW-1884.
Dan
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