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TEAC Professional Division

FW1884 / FE8

Professional Control Surface / FireWire AudioMIDI Interface

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Summary of Contents for FW-1884

Page 1: ...Page 1 of 35 TEAC Professional Division FW 1884 FE 8 Professional Control Surface FireWire Audio MIDI Interface READ ME 032105...

Page 2: ...ATION WINDOWS 10 A NOTE ABOUT COMMON CONTROL PROTOCOLS 10 MACKIE CONTROL 10 HUI 10 Pro Tools 11 USING THE FW 1884 WITH LOGIC AUDIO 11 USING THE FW 1884 WITH PRO TOOLS 12 Pro Tools Free 12 Pro Tools LE...

Page 3: ...IN V 1 20 24 DIGITAL PERFORMER PLUG IN 25 MAC OS X DRIVER 25 WINDOWS DRIVER 25 KNOWN ISSUES 26 SHORTCUT KEYS IN LOGIC 26 CONTROL PANEL KEY IN OSX 26 MAC G5 KERNEL ISSUES 26 V 1 30 DRIVER RELEASE NOTE...

Page 4: ...nother If you cable a FireWire system in a loop by mistake it will not work Note Use only a 6 pin FireWire connection on the computer Making Connections The FW 1884 and FE 8 do not pass power provided...

Page 5: ...r system go to Control Panel System and look in the General tab under System You can download Service Packs to your machine using the Windows Update feature Also note that future versions of Windows 2...

Page 6: ...3 You should see a yellow icon representing the FW 1884 Right click on it and choose Update Driver 4 Follow the instructions in the Hardware Update Wizard Mac o Note OMS 2 3 8 for Mac OS9 is included...

Page 7: ...Mac OS9 and Mac OSX Mac OSX adds the Core Audio tab shown below Here it is possible to configure how many I O channels the FW 1884 presents to the computer On slower systems it may be necessary to se...

Page 8: ...ONAR especially when there are a lot of channels enabled If there is a hesitation after pressing PLAY or RECORD before the operation begins try enabling this feature To use it check the channels that...

Page 9: ...t the FW 1884 If you will also be using the FW 1884 s MIDI Inputs to connect a keyboard or other controller you should select the FW 1884 s MIDI Input ports in the drop down boxes labeled Midi In Port...

Page 10: ...r both of these two protocols will provide control over faders mutes solo record enable pan and the main transport functions Other functions may be available on certain keys as noted in the documents...

Page 11: ...mode as of this writing ALT CMD CTRL SHIFT RECORD QuickPunch LOCATE SET Online IN SHIFT IN OUT NUDGE Also available in Nuendo NUDGE Also available in Nuendo BANK BANK SHIFT BANK SHIFT BANK Using the...

Page 12: ...could use the FW 1884 s mic preamps line inputs and ADAT inputs submixed to a stereo signal and record this digitally into Pro Tools using the FW 1884 s S PDIF output HUI emulation works with this sof...

Page 13: ...s found their way into the manual J Changes From Previous ReadMe Docs Please note that the ReadMe docs are stamped with their current date on the cover page For example 081903 is August 19 2003 Since...

Page 14: ...ombination of the two When the FW 1884 is configured for 2 channel operation you will be able to choose any pair of inputs and outputs for use with Digital Performer FW 1884 Mode Available I O 18 chan...

Page 15: ...imately 500k updater NOTE When connected FE 8 expander units each unit will require Windows to go through the plug play driver installation process This is due to the fact that each FE 8 has its own u...

Page 16: ...surface and MIDI ports with an audio card that has ADAT inputs but limited microphone inputs An example would be the Digidesign 001 NOTE Most applications permit several MIDI interfaces to be used si...

Page 17: ...to a minimum of 3 in Sonar s audio configuration window as shown below When the switch is not enabled you can set the number of buffers to a minimum of 2 and you ll get less absolute latency but the...

Page 18: ...clicking the Identify button the highlighted FE 8 will flash its FireWire 1394 LED It makes later FE 8 assignment easier if more than one FE 8 is connected if they are renamed at this point Many users...

Page 19: ...window shown below under the Options menu Sonar provides multiple slots to insert individual control surfaces If you have one or more FE 8s connected each one will appear individually in the Add New C...

Page 20: ...st Unit and choose a control port from the MIDI pull down Any control port may be used 3 Click on the sign next to the FW 1884 control port to enable another unit Do not click on the master sign outsi...

Page 21: ...With Logic First install the FW 1884 Logic plug in included on the FW 1884 CD and set up an FW 1884 according to those installation instructions To add an FE 8 repeat those same steps for each FE 8 co...

Page 22: ...el 16 of a given Control Port Any number of FE 8s emulating Mackie Control expanders may be added below a master FW 1884 emulating a Mackie Control o HUI DP expects to see a HUI on MIDI channel 1 of a...

Page 23: ...ari plays back an MP3 file Finder plays back an AIFF file Quicktime Player plays back a Quicktime MOV File Logic Plug in The issues below are currently being worked on by Emagic o Fader touch is not c...

Page 24: ...xt Added support for full message data dumps to SoftLCD to accommodate the Logic Audio plug in SONAR Plug in V 1 20 Minimum requirement is the latest Sonar 3 patches This is compatible with Sonar 4 Ad...

Page 25: ...ble to busses Note There currently appears to be an issue in Sonar 3 which prevents the EQ graphic display window at the top of each buss in the Mixer view from updating its On or Off state until afte...

Page 26: ...in app Control Panel Key in OSX Occasionally may require two presses to open the FW 1884 control panel especially immediately after switching sample rates Mac G5 Kernel Issues Some testers have report...

Page 27: ...o manually set the output messages to anything needed within the Action section of the MIDI Programming tab 5 Press MIDI CTRL to exit MIDI Programming mode It is possible to set all parameters in the...

Page 28: ...Panel now opens automatically any time SHIFT MIDI CTRL is pressed entering MIDI Programming mode The FW 1884 Control Panel now opens closes more reliably with the shortcut key MIDI SysEx output overfl...

Page 29: ...s SONAR It is possible to control any of the three EQs in SONAR using the FW 1884 Use the key commands below to assign the FW 1884 s physical controls to the desired EQ SET HI Sonitus track EQ SET HI...

Page 30: ...base SX Nuendo under Control Protocol 2 In the Steinberg app select Devices Device Setup a If using Cubase SX 2 2 or Nuendo 2 2 click on the Add Remove tab b Add one Mackie Control device c Click on t...

Page 31: ...t channel strip the channel s SEL button will light and adjusts the level of the aux send corresponding to the lit AUX button Single Channel Mode In this mode all eight AUX buttons are lit The channel...

Page 32: ...e punch in on off BANK Shift left 8 channels BANK Shift right 8 channels CTRL BANK Shift left 1 channel CTRL BANK Shift right 1 channel IN go to left locator OUT go to right locator SET IN user progra...

Page 33: ...or the currently selected track CLR SOLO F4 clear all solo s SHIFT CLR SOLO clear all mutes MARKER F5 add a marker LOOP F6 toggle cycle on off CUT user programmable as F5 see below DEL user programmab...

Page 34: ...SoftLCD screen between parameter names and values NUDGE as Channel Views In the lower left of the mixer screen are five icons that represent different kinds of tracks audio groups VST instruments ReW...

Page 35: ...F7 Shift F1 F8 F2 Shift F8 Shift F2 F9 F3 Shift F9 Shift F3 F10 F4 Shift F10 Shift F4 CUT F5 Shift CUT Shift F5 DEL F6 Shift DEL Shift F6 COPY F7 SET IN Shift F7 PASTE F8 SET OUT Shift F8 There are tw...

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