Recognizing The Us-2400 In Your Daw; Firmware Update Procedure - Tascam US-2400 User Manual

3 – Selecting a Control Surface Mode

Recognizing the US-2400 in your DAW

MIDI
port 1
Each bank of 8 faders on the US-2400 appears to the
computer as one MIDI port, with the leftmost fader
bank containing channels 1 through 8 also including
the master section controls. The joystick appears on
the fourth MIDI port. The following generalized
steps should get you going on most DAWs, though
some steps may not apply to your particular DAW
software.
For more detailed information on using the US-2400
with a particular DAW application, see the section
entitled "Applications" on page 16.
If your DAW is not one of the ones covered in the
"Applications" section, please refer to your DAW's
documentation to ensure that it supports multiple
control surfaces, either HUI or Mackie Control and
follow the basic steps described here.
In the case of Mackie Control emulation, you may
need to experiment with the three emulation modes
provided by the US-2400 to find the one that prop-
erly controls your DAW's Aux sends and maps the
US-2400's IN and OUT keys to useful functions.

Firmware Update Procedure

From time to time new firmware may be posted for
download from TASCAM's Web sites.
This will be a self-guided updater utility with ver-
sions for both Macintosh and Windows computers.
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MIDI MIDI
port 2 port 3
• Enable the US-2400 MIDI ports in your DAW's
MIDI configuration window. Restarting the DAW
software may be required for this change to take
effect.
• Open the Control Surface configuration window in
your DAW software.
• For DAWs that support multiple control surfaces as
a single unified device, assign each US-2400 MIDI
port to a separate control surface entry. Generally,
you'll have to choose a control surface here that
allows the DAW to find the US-2400 in a particular
control surface mode. For example, if the US-2400
is emulating the HUI protocol, you would choose
three HUI devices, each one on a different US-
2400 MIDI port.
• Assign the ports left to right as follows: Port 1 rep-
resents faders 1–8; Port 2 represents faders 9–16;
Port 3 represents faders 17–24; Port 4 represents
the joystick. Note that Port 1 includes the master
section controls.
• You may need to quit and restart the DAW applica-
tion for the above control surface assignments to
take effect.
We recommend that you check the TASCAM Web
sites periodically to ensure that you have the latest
firmware installed in your US-2400.
MIDI
MIDI
port 4
port 1