TEAC Professional Division OWNER’S MANUAL 1
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 4 FEATURES ........................................................................................................ 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................. 6 Macintosh ................................................................................................... 6 Windows ............................................
MIXER OUTPUTS ............................................................................................ 26 DM-3200 .................................................................................................. 26 DM-4800 .................................................................................................. 27 MIXER INPUTS ............................................................................................... 27 DM-3200 ..............................................................
Introduction Thank you for purchasing the TASCAM IF-FW/DM MKII 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. The TASCAM DM-3200 and DM-4800 digital mixers fully support the IF-FW/DM MKII and include a detailed status display to enable easy setup of previously difficult FireWire audio scenarios.
• 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.
System Requirements Macintosh • • • • • OS: Mac OS X 10.4.4 or higher Computer: Apple Macintosh series with on-board FireWire PowerPC G4 1GHz or greater, or any Intel Mac. Memory(RAM): 512MB or more Higher spec required for 32 channel operation at 96 kHz. – see System clocking section in this manual.
DM-4800 Requirements The DM-4800 must be running V1.10 software or later to use the IF-FW/DM MKII. A TFI update file for use with TMCompanion is provided on the IF-FW/DM MKII 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.
Installation Installing the IF-FW/DM MKII • • • 1. 2. 3. 4. DM-3200: The IF-FW/DM MKII must be installed in to mixer Slot 1. It will not function in Slot 2. DM-4800: The IF-FW/DM MKII must be installed in to 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. Remove the five screws holding the blank plate or card currently installed in Slot 1 (or Slot 3 on the DM-4800) then remove the plate or card.
• Please note that the IF-FW/DM MKII must be connected by itself on a FireWire bus. More than one FireWire connector on a computer does not mean each connector has its own bus. More often, all connectors go to the same bus on the computer. If you require additional FireWire devices, it is necessary to add a FireWire card, thus adding a separate bus, for those devices. Configuring the Computer Macintosh TASCAM driver software is required in order for Mac OSX to recognize the IF-FW/DM MKII.
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.
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. 4. You can connect the FireWire cable after the computer has restarted. 5. If you connected the FireWire cable with the power off, then the “New Hardware Wizard” will appear immediately after the restart.
On the first screen of the New Hardware Wizard, select “No, not this time”. 6. Confirm that the Wizard has identified the IF-FW/DM MKII card correctly (as shown below), then click “Next” 7. When presented with any Windows Logo warnings, click Continue Anyway.
8. 9. Click “Next” 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 MKII is installed and ready to use. 12. Whenever the IF-FW/DM MKII is connected to your computer, the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon will appear in the Windows Taskbar. If you need to disconnect the FireWire cable between the IF-FW/DM MKII and your computer, please be sure to use this first to stop the drivers from talking to the IF-FW/DM MKII card.
After using the “Safely Remove Hardware” function of Windows to stop the IF-FW/DM MKII, you will see “1394: Driver Offline” reported in the mixer’s DIGITAL status screen for the IFFW/DM MKII.
Mixer Control Screen On both the DM-3200 and DM-4800, the IF-FW/DM MKII 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) Cursor Navigation: Use the 4 arrow keys to the right of the LCD screen to move the cursor over to the FW MKII Card area. It will always be on the left because it only works in Slot 1 (and also Slot 3 for the DM-4800).
Detailed Description CARD Status This can display one of the following: “OK”, “OK (Backup)”, “Not Ready” or “Booting …” OK The IF-FW/DM MKII is running. OK (Backup) The IF-FW/DM MKII is running from its safety boot feature. This can occur when a firmware update to the IF-FW/DM MKII has failed and you select the safety boot feature as described in the Appendix. In this case, the update should be attempted again. Not Ready The IF-FW/DM MKII is partly running and will be ready shortly.
Illegal FS The Mixer specified an unsupported sampling frequency. Since the IF-FW/DM MKII supports all of the sampling frequencies that the DM-3200 and DM4800 supports, this might indicate a hardware problem. No Cable There is no physical connection being detected between the IF-FW/DM MKII and the computer, the cable is likely to be unplugged at one end. Driver Offline The IF-FW/DM MKII is connected physically to the computer, but no compatible driver is available.
Output This allows restricting the number of channels being sent to the computer to 16 for reduced host load, or setting the full channel count of 32. Especially at high sampling rates, if you don’t need the full 32 channel count from the mixer to the computer for your project, you will get better performance from your computer by setting this to 16. (Note) Before changing this setting, be sure that no audio applications are running, and no sound is being played back through the IF-FW/DM MKII.
Audio The IF-FW/DM MKII only presents some of its channels to the Windows XP built in audio manager. This allows you to route audio from a non-DAW application such as Windows Media Player to your mixer. The IF-FW/DM MKII Control Panel (described later) has controls to enable this function and also lets you choose which of the 32 channels the WDM audio is sent through.
PanelÆSounds and Audio DevicesÆSounds 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. MIDI All DAWs can use the WDM MIDI ports.
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. 1. Select Audio under the Options menu 2. Click the Advanced tab and select “ASIO” for the Playback and recording Driver Mode. 3.
(Note) Sonar 6 allows you to rename each channel’s identification string that is otherwise provided by the IFFW/DM MKII 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. (Note) You will be able to load a project with a sample rate that does not match the current mixer’s sample rate, but you will not be able to play it back.
Digital Performer The following instructions are for Digital Performer 5.1 1. Under the Setup menu, select Configure Audio System Æ Configure Hardware Driver 2. Highlight “IF-FW/DM mkII” in the list to make it the selected Core Audio device for DP. 3. If the IF-FW/DM MKII is not in the list, it is not being detected by your Mac, go to the troubleshooting section. 4. The Master Device and Clock Modes menu items will be fixed to “IF-FW/DM mkII” 5.
System Clocking Master Clock When configured with an IF-FW/DM MKII, the mixer must be the master clock relative to the computer DAW. The mixer itself may be clocked to an external source other than the DAW. Clock Settings When switching the clock rate of the mixer, or of any external device that is the clock master in your system, the following steps are required for correct operation: 1. Stop any audio playing from the DAW or computer. 2. Close the DAW application. 3.
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. This is especially noticeable with slower hard drives, such as the ones found in the Apple Mac Mini and notebook computers in general.
IF-FW/DM MKII & DM-Mixer Routing The IF-FW/DM MKII 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. Mixer Outputs DM-3200 By default, the DM-3200 routes busses 1 – 16 to IF-FW/DM MKII outputs 1-16 and duplicates these to outputs 17-32.
DM-4800 By default, the DM-4800 puts busses 1-24 on IF-FW/DM MKII 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. Routing control is identical to the DM-3200 described above. Mixer Inputs DM-3200 The IF-FW/DM MKII’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.
DM-4800 The IF-FW/DM MKII’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.
The IF-FW/DM MKII Control Panel Windows The IF-FW/DM MKII Control Panel is found here: Start Menu Æ All Programs Æ TASCAM Æ IFFWDMmkII Æ IFFWDMmkII 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 MKII installer does not put an icon for the Control panel in the Windows System Control Panel. On the left side are the Status and Configuration panels; on the right is the Settings 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. All streams must be locked for audio to be sent. Audio Dropouts – displays how many buffers have been lost so far since locking.
• • • • 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. Assign WDM Channels – These two buttons bring up a dialog box that allows the WDM driver input or output channels to be freely assigned across the available IFFW/DM MKII channels.
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. To make a change, follow the steps below. 1. Select a “Speaker” in the Speaker pull-down menu; this corresponds to the names that WDM is concerned with. 2.
Mac The IF-FW/DM MKII 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 MKII 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. Status Panel The following information is shown: • Status – This is the Firewire status, Not Ready, Locked or Unlocked.
• 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. Check this before and after a recording or mixdown to see if your computer was able to keep up throughout.
Cycle the Power Sometimes, turning off the computer and mixer at their power source and turning them back on again can solve some issues by allowing system memory to completely discharge and the OS to start afresh. If the Mixer’s DigitalÆSLOT screen 1394 status shows “Driver not Locked” continually, please restart your computer. Mac Check that OS X identifies the device 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Click on the Apple Menu in the top left of the screen. Select About This Mac Click on the More Info… button.
2. Right click on My Computer, select “Properties” and left click this. 3. Select the Hardware Tab 4. Click the Device Manager 5. In the list under “Sound, video and game controllers”, there should be an entry for “TASCAM IF-FW/DM mkII”. 6. If this entry is not there, or if there is a yellow “!” mark against it, uninstall and re-install the drivers. Do not attempt to use the “Update drivers” option from here. 7. If there is a Red “X” mark against the entry, the device has been disabled.
Remove unrelated software and drivers The presence of drivers for other FireWire devices and other audio devices, even though they are not actively connected, may be a cause of system trouble. Consider stripping down your computer to be solely music-oriented. A Computer that has seen many generations of audio interface may need to have its OS cleanly reinstalled to work reliably.
Appendix Safety Boot Feature Software updates may be made available for the IF-FW/DM MKII 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. Don’t worry. The IF-FW/DM MKII contains a second copy of its operating software that cannot be overwritten by any software updater application.
To use it, pull it up and off of the pins and replace it onto the pair of pins nearby that are marked “J15 BACKUP”. Push it all the way down onto the pins. Do not put the header on any other pins on the card. Next, re-insert the card into the mixer, reconnect your cables and turn the power back on. The CARD STATUS display will now show OK (Backup) to show that the backup software is being used.
any power or indicator LEDs on the Hub are on if you experience problems. FireWire Active Extension cables are also hubs, just with the cable already attached. A FireWire Repeater is also another name for a hub. Each connection between hubs can be a maximum of 4.5 meters (14.5 feet), but only the best quality cables will work reliably at this distance.
CEntrance “Universal” and “Ideal” Drivers for Windows XP. Although CEntrance (www.centrance.com) supplies 3rd party drivers that may support the DICE-2 chip used on the IF-FW/DM MKII, 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 MKII running with Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition.
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] • IF-FW/DM MKII card. • 1 CD-ROM (Windows/Mac Drivers & Owner’s Manual) • Printed Owner’s Manual • Warranty Card • 1394 FireWire cable - 6pin to 6pin, 1.
