Tascam FW-1884 Users Group?

update 7-3-2010
I've edited the Sonar Tascam FW-1884 User Resources page.
Please have a look.

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update 4-03-2010
Gentlemen,
I HOPE this is good news!
See Matt's thread here:
Tascam releases new drivers for FW-series for Windows 7

But check my post at the bottom of this thread, the x64 Sonar plug is the
same one that's been up on the Tascam site for quite a while...

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Are we ready to band together and try to get something done with the FW1884?
I've put together a little web page, Sonar Tascam FW-1884 User Resources, where I've outlined some questions, thoughts, concerns and useful links.
So I will just summarize here.

I assume that all of us are looking to make the FW rock solid in Win 7x64, running Sonar 8.5x64?

I've amended my signature to reflect my current setup and functionality, I think it would be useful if we all did the same.

In future I think it would be best to post here in the Hardware Forum as posts quickly become lost in the Sonar forum.

I truly would like to stay with the 1884, but I, perhaps we all, will be moving forward to Win 7 soon.

How about a show of hands, interested?

I'll post a link in the "Issues, Issues, Issues" thread and will be PM'ing a list of users I've made up.

Thanks,
Tom

Mididreamer,
Thanks for chiming in! Working up PM's right now.
Which FW driver version are you running in Win7, might add that to your signature.

Tom

Thanks for the invite, Tom.  I am all in.

F@KER

I assume that all of us are looking to make the FW rock solid in Win 7x64, running Sonar 8.5x64?

Absolutely.

I do want a rock-solid authorized release, but  the 1.70 driver with the sonar 1.22 driver and the latest firmware provide all the functionality/stability I need in old 32-bit XP environment.

Frankly, I am not sure when I am upgrading to Win7. So I don't know how much I am willing to front. Of course, any letter writing campaign I would participate in.

riojazz

bapu


I'm in for money and supportive service (letter writing, forum posting, emails etc.) to whomever.

Tascam FW-1884: driver v1.6, sonar plug v1.22  



I'll update my firmware revision later tonight.

Bapu, STOP.

First make sure you are not updating to the same firmware!  There is nothing to stop you from doing so, and I have read (from a post by the Tascam rep) that it can mess you up.  There has been no change to the firmware in many years.

I meant I would update (i.e. tell you all) what my firmware version is in this thread, not physically update the unit.

Jim,
The Tascam forum is one link I forgot to list.
Please let me know any corrections or additions I need to add.
I think it would be helpful to all if I could summarize the various configurations that everyone is using, or have tried to use. I'll try to get a little updating done tonight.

Tom

If I can help, please shoot me a mail.
The 1884 part of the forum was merged with other items due to lack of mods available. We did that in late 2008 or early 2009.
 
Tascamforums.com asks users for a 4dollar fee to pay for hostingcosts. All mods there are volunteers. So am I.
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Hey guys,

First of all, thanks to Tom for his PM. It's been a while since I've been around on the forum.

I was just wondering what you want to fix in the drivers of the FW1884. I've been through hell and back on Win Vista 64 cause of the lack of support from Tascam. I guess many of you have been experiencing the problem when you have 4GB Ram or more.

But finally, Frontier has developed the 1.70 drivers and since then, everything works like a charm. I've seen in the signature of many here (including Tom) that drivers 1.6 are still being used. I'd definitely recommend moving to 1.70. Haven't tried yet with Win7 though (but apparently some have and it worked smoothly.

Cheers.

As originally discovered by, riojazz, Tascam may be updating the FW1884 drivers for Win7. This was mentioned on the Tascam UK Facebook account.

Thanks for that, riojazz!

Gentlemen,
I HOPE this is good news!
See Matt's thread here:
Tascam releases new drivers for FW-series for Windows 7

bapu


Now all we need is the SONAR Control Surface driver updated form 32-bit to 64-bit?

But check this out
This x64 file has been up on the Tascam site for awhile.

Did anyone try it in Vista x64?

Please update your signatures to reflect your current setup.

Tom

Hi All,
I revisited my Win7x64 drive yesterday and today.
When I had closed it Saturday nite I had Sonar to the point where I could not start playback.
Well, I couldn't even boot the Win7x64 drive! So I re-installed Win7x64, this is a tedious process. I don't remember the Win7x32 going so slow, but...
Installed the chipset and video drivers.
Set the 1394 motherboard port driver to "legacy".
I setup the FW1884 with the v1.8 driver and got Media Player going, no problems.
I installed Sonar 8PE x32 and installed the 8.3 patch, still good.
I then installed Dimension Pro x32, the DXi and the VST, I THINK this is where things start to go sideways.
I then installed Sonar 8.5PE x32 and when it scanned the system it reported that my "hardware does not support the current format" something to that effect and Sonar set things to 44.1 16 bit. I changed the bit depth in "Audio Options" that didn't help. I then had problems loading the two Sonar demo files I had made available to Win7x64, these were "Dark European" (lots of plugs and effects) and "Guilty" (lots of tracks).
I then uninstalled Dim Pro and both Sonar 8 & 8.5. I DID NOT go into the registry and remove Sonar, so when I re-installed Sonar 8 naturally install found the previous installation; on & on.
BUT, with Sonar PE8.3x32 and the v1.22 Sonar Plugin all was working well, albeit at 44.1 16bit. With the WDM drivers set to "Fast" 5.8msec latency, 256 in the FW Control Panel: Playback, fader and encoder moves, all GOOD!
Then I switched over to ASIO drivers. At 128 in the FW Control Panel Sonar reports 2.7msec latency and things worked GOOD! At 64 and 1.5msec latency I got noise if I moved things about with the mouse; ie. pickup the console or track view and move it, move a plug-in gui to screen #2, etc. At 32 the audio engine hung, no playback!
So there you are. I'll just re-load Win7x64 AGAIN, and install and patch to Sonar 8.3 and check out the bit depth thing.
You can bet I'll create a backup image, BEFORE any more installs so I can get back to square 1 again.
I don't know if its Me, my system, whatever! I don't think that the v1.8 driver is the problem, but...
Hope you all have better luck than I have so far.
I DON'T see the current Sonar x64 Plug as an option, that puts us right back where we were with the Sonar 6 release. If I can get Sonar to see 4 gigs of RAM in PE8.5x32 running in the x64OS, that would be an incremental step forward.
MAYBE that is a problem with my install, x64 reports 4 gigs with 3.75 usable.
Do you need that extra ram to take full advantage of the 64 bit OS?
I thought that Dim Pro x32 was working with the 64 bit OS, I do know that many are experiencing problems going 64 bit OS, Sonar, Dim Pro across the board.
Again, good luck and please keep us posted

Tom