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TEAC Professional Division
OWNER’S MANUAL
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 4 FEATURES........................................................................................................ 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.................................................................................. 6 Macintosh................................................................................................... 6 Windows ..............................
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MIXER OUTPUTS............................................................................................ 26 DM-3200 .................................................................................................. 26 DM-4800 .................................................................................................. 27 MIXER INPUTS ............................................................................................... 27 DM-3200 ...............................................
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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. Patented JE
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• 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. 5
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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. Windows • OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition or XP Professional with Service Pack 2 • Computer: Windows® XP Compatible PC equipped with an IEEE 1394/FireWire Port • Pentium®, Ce
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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. Previous versions of the DM-4800 will not recognize the IF-FW/DM MKII Trademarks Windows and Window
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Installation Installing the IF-FW/DM MKII • 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. 1. 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 pla
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• 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/
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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. To hear system audio through the card, you can select the IF- FW/DM MKII in the Audio MIDI Setup within the Utilities folder of Mac Applications folder A control panel for the IF-FW/DM MKII i
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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
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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. 12
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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-
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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 IF- FW/DM MKII. 14
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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 al
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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 shortl
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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 DM- 4800 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. Driver Not Locke
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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/D
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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. To enable this in Windows, first navigate to Start Control Panel Sounds and Audio Devices Audio Tab and select “IF-
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Panel Sounds and Audio Devices Sounds 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. The IF-FW/DM MKII publishes a single MIDI input and output pair to Windows for the physical MIDI ports on
