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Tascam Control Surfaces & Io?
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Someone mentioned the 1884 earlier and I thought that was the target.
No matter, the 1082 has two pair of MIDI I/O, so you should be fine.
Tascam FW-1082 rear panel:
https://www.tascam.com/Press/Images/FW1082/FW-1082_Rear.jpg…Tom
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In looking at the 1082 panel more closely, I see it lacks ADAT which the 1884 does have. Both have coax S/PDIF ports, and it’s easy to S/PDIF coax to optical and visa versa, but I don’t think the AJA Io will see the S/PDIF coming through the ADAT. When the Io was first released, this was intended to be a future feature. Don’t know if recent updates have added that. S/PDIF is only two channels also. My system is down right now for some needed reorganization of gear, but it’s easy enough to test on your Io.
…Tom
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…I forgot to mention that I use the FW 1884 through a separate FW-PCI-Card. In the near future, I have to upgrade to HD(V) and intend to change from the IO-Box to a HD/SD-SDI-PCI-Card, replacing the FW-PCI-Card (the G5 lacks one slot at least…). thank you.
Edwin, Lucerne, Switzerland -
I just heard from Tascam. According to them you must use firewire for control surface operation, so the MIDI is only for the MIDI mode use. Well, looks like Io users need to go with the mackie at this point.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
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Well, that’s too bad. My MIDI/USB suggestion was a shot in the dark…not something I’d done.
I wonder if a Firewire-USB2 adapator would work to either get access to the control surface data, or possibly the whole stream including the audio?
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