» IF-FW/DM FireWire Interface Card OWNER'S MANUAL D00830000B
Table of contents INTRODUCTION........................2 SETUP.........................................7 FEATURES.........................................3 IF-FW/DM Interface Setup................7 CUBASE / NUENDO......................7 SONAR...........................................7 LOGIC............................................7 DIGITAL PERFORMER..................7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS...............3 Macintosh......................................3 Windows........................................
Introduction O Features The IF-FW/DM provides the following interfacing between your TASCAM mixer and a host computer via FireWire: • 24 channels of Input to the mixer from the computer at 44.1k and 48k sample rates • 24 channels of Output from the mixer to the computer at 44.1k and 48k sample rates • 1 MIDI port In and Out from the computer System Requirements Macintosh • OS: MacOS X 10.3.
Installation O Configure For Your Mixer Picture 1 is IF-FW/DM Configured for a DM-3200. Note that jumpers J11 through J43 are across pin rows 2 and 3. For DM-3200 J11 - J43 SDT : 1-2 (default) LVDS : 2-3 U43 U42 U41 U40 U26 U25 U24 U23 U35 U34 U32 U31 U18 U17 U16 U15 Early IF-FW/DM cards shipped configured for the DM-24. From the time of DM-3200 software version 1.20 availability, IF-FW/ DM cards began shipping configured for the DM-3200.
Installation O Making Connections 1. Connect one end of the provided FireWire cable to the IF-FW/DM and the other end to an available FireWire port on your computer. An inferior FireWire cable can negatively affect the performance of the system. • For Windows installations, do not make this connection until instructed to do so by the driver installer. 2. Making the following MIDI connections is only necessary for IF-FW/DM use with the DM-24 mixer.
O Installation Windows It is necessary to install driver software in order for Windows to recognize the IF-FW/ DM. An installer is provided for this purpose, the drivers cannot be installed manually from Windows Device Manager. On the CD-ROM that came with your IF-FW/DM is a PC Driver installer. Launch the installer from the CD or copy it to your hard drive and launch it from there. The installer is launched by clicking “setup.exe”.
Setup O IF-FW/DM Interface Setup Below are brief instructions for setting up common DAW software applications to use the IF-FW/DM interface. If your application is not covered here, but does support ASIO (PC), WDM (PC) or Core Audio (Mac), or if you need more detailed instructions to configure your application, please refer to the documentation for your application to set up an audio/MIDI interface. Cubase / Nuendo 1. Select Device Setup under the Devices menu 3.
Setup O System Clocking Master Clock When configured with the IF-FW/DM, 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 If it becomes necessary to switch between 44.1k and 48k sample rates on the mixer, the following steps are required for correct operation: 96 k & 88.2 k Operation The IF-FW/DM does not support these sample rates. 1. Disconnect the FireWire cable between the DM-24 and the IF-FW/DM.
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 configured in banks of 8 in the CH1-16 IN and CH17-24 IN layer select of the mixer’s Routing screen.
Setup O IF-FW/DM Control Panel (Windows) The IF-FW/DM Control Panel is found here: Start Menu > All Programs > TASCAM IFFWDM > IFFWDM Control Panel. There are three sliders available in the control panel. Generally, lower audio buffer settings offer lower latency but require a more powerful computer. It may be necessary to experiment with these settings to find the lowest setting your computer is capable of running.
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 cannot 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.
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