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  • Page 1 TEAC Professional Division OWNER’S MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ... 4 ... 4 EATURES YSTEM EQUIREMENTS Macintosh ... 6 Windows ... 6 DM-24 (not supported)... 6 DM-3200 Requirements ... 6 DM-4800 Requirements ... 7 ... 7 RADEMARKS INSTALLATION... 8 IF-FW/DM NSTALLING THE AKING ONNECTIONS ONFIGURING THE OMPUTER Macintosh ...
  • Page 3 INDOWS Check Device Manager ... 35 Check Plug-and-Play Detection ... 36 Control Panel Check ... 36 Remove unrelated software and drivers ... 37 Optimize for speed to reduce audio problems ... 37 TASCAM C ONTACTING APPENDIX... 38 AFETY EATURE ULTIPLE...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Thank you for purchasing the TASCAM IF-FW/DM FireWire audio card for TASCAM mixers. It is designed to provide audio and MIDI interfacing between your TASCAM mixer and your computer based DAW, turning your TASCAM mixer into a high performance FireWire audio/MIDI interface.
  • Page 5 • 1 MIDI port In and Out from the computer It also has comprehensive status monitoring in the mixer’s LCD, and a safety boot feature of its own software that is always available even if problems occur during software updating. Please see the Safety Boot Feature appendix for details.

  • Page 6: System Requirements

    IF-FW/DM TMCompanion installed; this can be found on the CD ROM that came with your DM-3200. You should always check the TASCAM website at www.tascam.com available versions. Previous versions of the DM-3200 software will not recognize the IF-FW/DM II CD ROM.

  • Page 7: Dm-4800 Requirements

    II CD ROM. You will need to have TMCompanion installed; this can be found on the CD ROM that came with your DM-4800. You should always check the TASCAM website at www.tascam.com to obtain the latest available versions. Previous versions of the DM-4800 will not...

  • Page 8: Installation

    Installation Installing the IF-FW/DM • DM-3200: The IF-FW/DM mixer Slot 1. It will not function in Slot 2. • DM-4800: The IF-FW/DM either mixer Slot 1 or Slot 3. It will not function in Slot 2 or Slot 4. • The following installation must be done with the mixer’s power OFF and disconnected.

  • Page 9: Configuring The Computer

    Configuring the Computer Macintosh TASCAM driver software is required in order for Mac OSX to recognize the IF-FW/DM your card there is an installer disk image. Double click this to mount and open the contents.

  • Page 10: Windows

    Follow the instructions given. You will need to supply your computer’s Administrator password in order to install the drivers. A License file and a ReadMe file are displayed; this may contain important last minute information. Finishing the installation, you will need to reboot the computer. To hear system audio through the card, you can select the IF- FW/DM II in the Audio MIDI Setup within the Utilities folder...
  • Page 11 1. Launch the installer and carefully follow the on-screen instructions in the Installation Wizard. 2. When presented with any Windows Logo warnings, click Continue Anyway. 3. The driver installer ends with “please restart this computer”. You will need to restart to finish the installation process.
  • Page 12 New Hardware Wizard, select “No, not this time”. 6. Confirm that the Wizard has identified the IF-FW/DM card correctly (as shown below), then click “Next” 7. When presented with any Windows Logo warnings, click Continue Anyway. On the first screen of the...
  • Page 13 10. “Your new hardware is installed and ready to use” will appear in the lower right of the Windows desktop. 11. Your IF-FW/DM 12. Whenever the IF-FW/DM computer, the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon will appear in the Windows Taskbar. to disconnect the FireWire cable between the IF-FW/DM II and your computer, please be sure to use this first to stop the drivers from talking to the IF-FW/DM Note you will need to stop and quit any audio programs...
  • Page 14 After using the “Safely Remove Hardware” function of Windows to stop the IF-FW/DM II, you will see “1394: Driver Offline” reported in the mixer’s DIGITAL status screen for the IF- FW/DM...

  • Page 15: Mixer Control Screen

    Mixer Control Screen On both the DM-3200 and DM-4800, the IF-FW/DM presents a detailed setup and status display screen as shown below. Navigate to the Digital page (LCD access button 2 with blue ALT LED lit), and then select the SLOT tab (labeled SLOT 1-2 or SLOT 3-4 on the DM-4800) This display has the following: •...

  • Page 16: Detailed Description

    Detailed Description CARD Status This can display one of the following: “OK”, “OK (Backup)”, “Not Ready” or “Booting …” OK (Backup) safety boot feature. This can occur when a firmware update to the IF-FW/DM feature as described in the Appendix. In this case, the update should be attempted again.

  • Page 17: Input

    Illegal FS sampling frequency. Since the IF-FW/DM all of the sampling frequencies that the DM-3200 and DM- 4800 supports, this might indicate a hardware problem. No Cable being detected between the IF-FW/DM computer, the cable is likely to be unplugged at one end. Driver Offline physically to the computer, but no compatible driver is available.

  • Page 18: Output

    Version Information This tells you what version of the IF-FW/DM currently being used. Updates may be made available through the TASCAM web site at IF-FW/DM II DAW Setup Below are instructions for setting up common DAW software...

  • Page 19: Audio

    II in this way will be summed to any audio being supplied via ASIO, so always check that Windows Sounds will not interfere with your regular DAW recording or mixing sessions. For a computer dedicated to audio, TASCAM recommends turning off all Windows sounds. Navigate to Start Control...

  • Page 20: If-Fw/Dm Mk Ii

    Panel Sounds and Audio Devices Sounds Tab Alternatively, divide WDM and ASIO use, e.g. using channel 31 and 32 for WDM still leaves you with 30 channels of ASIO audio, and a pair of faders on the mixer can be dedicated to WDM audio for those times you want to use Windows Media Player or Apple iTunes to audition compressed audio files.

  • Page 21: Sonar

    2. Select VST Multitrack 3. Select IFFWDMmkII under the ASIO Driver pull down menu 4. If it was not already selected, a dialog will popup asking whether it is OK to switch to the new ASIO driver. Click Switch 5. Click OK at the bottom. Sonar The following instructions are for Sonar 4 or later.

  • Page 22: Logic Pro

    (Note) Sonar 6 allows you to rename each channel’s identification string that is otherwise provided by the IF- FW/DM II driver. (Note) If the sample rate of the mixer does not match Sonar’s setting for “Default Settings for New Projects” when Sonar is launched, Sonar will put up a warning dialog, and change its own default setting.

  • Page 23: Digital Performer

    Digital Performer The following instructions are for Digital Performer 5.1 1. Under the Setup menu, select Configure Audio System Configure Hardware Driver 2. Highlight “ IF-FW/DM mkII selected Core Audio device for DP. 3. If the IF-FW/DM detected by your Mac, go to the troubleshooting section. 4.

  • Page 24: System Clocking

    This will put extra strain on your computer’s CPU and OS, so a higher latency audio buffer setting or an Input/Output setting of 16 channels may be required. For these sampling rates, TASCAM recommends the following computer specifications: Windows •...

  • Page 25: Varispeed Pitch

    Please note that when running at these track count and sampling rates, some DAW software will hit a limit in terms of hard disk throughput before the driver or FireWire limits are reached. Please experiment with hard disk caching and read-ahead settings if you are experiencing drop-outs or unexpected stops in playback.

  • Page 26: If-Fw/Dm Mkii & Dm-Mixer Routing

    IF-FW/DM II & DM-Mixer Routing The IF-FW/DM II appears to the Mixer just like any other optional I/O card except that it has 32 channels of I/O instead of 8. (Note): Even if the card is currently set to 16 inputs or 16 outputs, the routing matrix will still present the full 32 channels for configuration.

  • Page 27: Dm-4800

    DM-4800 By default, the DM-4800 puts busses 1-24 on IF-FW/DM outputs 1-24 and duplicates busses 1 – 8 on outputs 25-32. These routing settings can be changed in the OUTPUT SLOT tab of the DM-4800’s ROUTING screen. DM-3200 The IF-FW/DM II’s mixer inputs are configured from the INPUT tab of the mixer’s ROUTING screen.
  • Page 28 DM-4800 The IF-FW/DM II’s mixer inputs are configured from the INPUT tab of the mixer’s ROUTING screen. (Note) By default, there are no option card signals routed into the mixer. Routing Control is the same as that described for the DM-3200 above.

  • Page 29: The If-Fw/Dm Mkii Control Panel

    Windows The IF-FW/DM II Control Panel is found here: Start Menu All Programs TASCAM Control Panel, and it may also be displayed by calling up the ASIO control panel from within a DAW application. (Note) The IF-FW/DM Control panel in the Windows System Control Panel.

  • Page 30: Configuration Panel

    • Channel count – How many channels are currently being streamed to and from the mixer. This can be changed only from the mixer’s LCD screen. (Note): The numbers here are relative to the computer. If the driver is Unlocked, additional information is displayed here about the state of the individual streams of FireWire data.

  • Page 31: Other

    • Enable WDM Audio – check box. Allows the WDM part of the driver to be disabled and only leave ASIO running. This may improve responsiveness of your computer. • WDM Input Configuration – This pull down menu specifies how many channels of audio are available to the WDM driver.

  • Page 32: Assign Wdm Channels Dialog

    These last 5 settings differ also in the names that the application sees for each channel, no additional processing is implied. These match the Windows recommended configurations for surround audio playback. Assign WDM Channels Dialog This is the dialog box used to set the WDM input or output mappings.

  • Page 33: Mac

    The IF-FW/DM II Control Panel is found under the Applications folder. Double click to launch it. It can also be reached through the Audio MIDI Setup utility by pressing the “Configure Device” button when the IF-FW/DM is selected in the “Properties For:” pull-down. On the Left hand side is the Status panel, and on the Right hand side is the Configuration panel.

  • Page 34: Configuration Panel

    the individual streams of FireWire data. All streams must be locked for audio to be sent. • Audio Dropouts – displays how many buffers have been lost so far since locking. This should be a small number, as it is normal for the driver to lose a few buffers when it initially connects and negotiates the correct speed.

  • Page 35: Cycle The Power

    5. If the Device shows “No device Found” and the previous check is OK, the firmware in the card may be incompatible with the version of the driver you are using. Update to the latest driver and firmware from www.tascam.com Windows Check Device Manager 1.

  • Page 36: Check Plug-And-Play Detection

    1. When the IF-FW/DM Windows XP, the plug-and-play icon will be shown in the far right of the task bar. 2. Left Clicking on this will show “Safely Remove TASCAM IF-FW/DM MKII”. 3. If there is no IF-FW/DM drivers as described elsewhere in this manual.

  • Page 37: Remove Unrelated Software And Drivers

    OS cleanly reinstalled to work reliably. Optimize for speed to reduce audio problems TASCAM recommends optimizing your OS installation for best possible audio application performance. Websites such as www.musicXP.net have useful information.

  • Page 38: Appendix

    Safety Boot Feature Software updates may be made available for the IF-FW/DM through TASCAM’s web site (www.tascam.com). When you use these updates, removing the FireWire cable, or experiencing a power glitch during the update procedure can leave the card in an unusable state.

  • Page 39: Multiple Card Support

    If the CARD STATUS still reads Booting … constantly after changing to the backup software, your card may have a hardware problem; so please contact TASCAM customer support. Multiple Card support The Windows and Mac driver will not recognize more than one IF- FW/DM II connected to your computer.

  • Page 40: Firewire Chipset Compatibility

    The IF-FW/DM II has been noted to perform badly with some NEC and TI branded chipsets. Check the TASCAM web site for any updates. 1394b (FireWire 800) ports 1394b, a.k.a. FireWire 800, S800 is a high-speed version of FireWire 400 that is fully backwards compatible. The IF-FW/DM...

  • Page 41: Centrance "Universal" And "Ideal" Drivers For Windows Xp

    Although CEntrance (www.centrance.com) supplies 3 party drivers that may support the DICE-2 chip used on the IF-FW/DM II, TASCAM does not support this configuration. For support of those drivers, please contact CEntrance directly. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition TASCAM does not support the IF-FW/DM...

  • Page 42: Technical Specifications

    Technical Specifications [Size] 164(W) x 40(H) x 221(D) mm (Card) [Weight] 0.3Kg (Card) [Supported Sample Rates] 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz [Bit Depth] 24 bits [Power Consumption] Provided by host mixer. [Operating Temperature] +5°C to +35°C [Package Contents] •...

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