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IF-FW/DM
FireWire Interface Card
OWNER'S MANUAL
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Table of contents INTRODUCTION .......................2 SETUP ........................................7 FEATURES ........................................3 IF-FW/DMInterface Setup ...............7 CUBASE / NUENDO .....................7 SYSTEMREQUIREMENTS ..............3 SONAR ..........................................7 Macintosh .....................................3 LOGIC ...........................................7 Windows ............................
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Introduction O Features The IF-FW/DM provides the following inter- • 24 channels of Output from the mixer to facing between your TASCAM mixer and a the computer at 44.1k and 48k sample host computer via FireWire: rates • 1 MIDI port In and Out from the com- • 24 channels of Input to the mixer from the puter computer at 44.1k and 48k sample rates System Requirements Macintosh • Recommended: Pentium® IV/2 GHz or higher • OS: MacOS X 10.3.5 or higher • Memory (RAM): 256MB or more • Computer:
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O Installation Configure For Your Mixer There is a series of jumpers on the IF-FW/ Picture 1 is IF-FW/DM Configured for a DM that set its operating mode. These jump- DM-3200. Note that jumpers J11 through ers must be in the correct position to operate J43 are across pin rows 2 and 3. For DM-3200 with a DM-3200 or DM-24, which com- J11 - J43 municate with the IF-FW/DM via different SDT : 1-2 (default) operating modes. LVDS : 2-3 Early IF-FW/DM cards shipped configured 1 2 3 for the DM-24. Fr
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Installation O Making Connections 1. Connect one end of the provided FireWire the DAW in the mixer’s readout from cable to the IF-FW/DM and the other the IF-FW/DM’s MIDI Out port. end to an available FireWire port on your • If you will not be using MIDI com- computer. An inferior FireWire cable can munication between the mixer and the negatively affect the performance of the DAW for surface control or time code, system. the IF-FW/DM’s MIDI port may be • For Windows installations, do not
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O Installation Windows It is necessary to install driver software in 4. The New Hardware dialog will appear in order for Windows to recognize the IF-FW/ the lower right of the Windows desktop. DM. An installer is provided for this pur- 5. When presented with any Windows Logo pose, the drivers cannot be installed manu- warnings, click Continue Anyway. ally from Windows Device Manager. On the CD-ROM that came with your IF-FW/DM 6. Installation activity will continue in the is a PC Driver insta
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Setup O IF-FW/DM Interface Setup Below are brief instructions for setting up you need more detailed instructions to con- common DAW software applications to use figure your application, please refer to the the IF-FW/DM interface. If your application documentation for your application to set up is not covered here, but does support ASIO an audio/MIDI interface. (PC), WDM (PC) or Core Audio (Mac), or if Cubase / Nuendo 1. Select Device Setup under the Devices 3. Select ASIO IFFWDM under the ASI
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O Setup System Clocking Master Clock When configured with the IF-FW/DM, the clocked to an external source other than the mixer must be the master clock relative to DAW. the computer DAW. The mixer itself may be Clock Settings If it becomes necessary to switch between 96 k& 88.2 k Operation 44.1k and 48k sample rates on the mixer, The IF-FW/DM does not support these sam- the following steps are required for correct ple rates. operation: 1. Disconnect the FireWire cable between the DM-
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Setup DM-24 By default, the DM-24 duplicates busses 1 - 8 on IF-FW/DM mixer outputs 1 - 8, 9 - 16, and 17 - 24. Also available are the Direct Outputs from channels 1 - 16 on the DM-24. By default, those appear on IF-FW/DM mixer outputs 1 - 16. These routing settings can be changed in the OUTPUT tab of the DM-24’s I/O screen. Mixer Inputs DM-3200 DM-24 The IF-FW/DM’s mixer inputs must be The IF-FW/DM’s mixer inputs must be con- configured in banks of 8 in the CH1-16 IN figured in banks of
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O Setup IF-FW/DM Control Panel (Windows) The IF-FW/DM Control Panel is found here: IFFWDM > IFFWDM Control Panel. Start Menu > All Programs > TASCAM There are three sliders available in the con- The three sliders are: trol panel. Generally, lower audio buffer Streambuf ferdepth settings offer lower latency but require a Use this slider to control the size of the more powerful computer. It may be neces- incoming 1394 audio stream. The larger sary to experiment with these settings to fin
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Setup Enable WDM When first installed, the IF-FW/DM will 4 active stereo pairs of audio through its WDM driver. If you are using a DAW that can- not use ASIO and you want to access all 24 channels of audio, click this option. It may take 1 to 2 minutes for Windows to finish reconfiguring with a total of 12 stereo pairs of WDM audio. This affects the start-up time of the computer as well. TASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 11
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