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» D00830000B OWNER'S MANUAL IF-FW/DM Fir eWir e Interface Car d[...]
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2 T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual SETUP ........................................ 7 IF-FW/DM Interface Setup ............... 7 CUBASE / NUENDO ..................... 7 SONAR .......................................... 7 LOGIC ........................................... 7 DIGIT AL PERFORMER ................. 7 SYSTEM CLOCKING .....................[...]
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O T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 3 Intr oduction The IF-FW/DM provides the following inter- facing between your T ASCAM mixer and a host co mputer via FireW ire: • 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 M I[...]
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4 T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual O Installation Installing the IF-FW/DM 1. Remove the five screws holding the blank plate or card currently installed in Slot 1 then remove the plate or card. 2 . Insert the IF-FW/DM into Slot 1, mak- ing sure that the card edges slide into the white plastic guide inside Slot 1. Push it all the way in until it [...]
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O T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 5 Installation 1. Connect one end of the provided FireW ire cable to the IF-FW/DM and the other end to an available FireW ire 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[...]
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6 T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual O It is necessary to install driver software in order for Windows to recognize the IF-FW/ DM. An installer is provided for this pur- pos e, t he d riv ers cann ot b e i nsta lle d man u- ally from W indows Device Manager . On the CD-ROM that came with your IF-FW/DM is a PC Driver installer . Launch the install[...]
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O T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 7 Setup 1. Select Audio under the Options menu 2 . Click the Drivers tab and enable the desired Inputs and Outputs 3. Click the General tab and select IF-FW/ DM devices for the Playback and Record T iming Masters 4. Click on W ave Profiler (run this any time you change anything in this window) 5. Click on Y es[...]
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8 T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual O Setup The IF-FW/DM appears to a mixer just like any other optional I/O card except that it has 24 channels of I/O instead of 8. IF-FW/DM & Mixer Routing Mixer Outputs DM-3200 By default, the DM-3200 duplicates busses 1 - 8 on IF-FW/DM mixer outputs 17 - 24. Also available are the Direct Outputs from chan[...]
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T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 9 Setup DM-3200 The IF-FW/DM’ s mixer inputs must be configured in banks of 8 in the CH1-16 IN and CH17-24 IN laye r sel ect of th e mix er ’ s Routing screen. For 24 channel operation: • Set INPUT CH1-8 to A:SLOT1 , 1-8 • Set INPUT CH9-16 to B:SLOT1 , 9-16 • Set INPUT CH17-24 to A:SLOT1 , 17-24 DM-24 [...]
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10 T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual O Setup The IF-FW/DM Control Panel is found here: S t a r t M e n u > A l l P r o g r a m s > TA S C A M IFFWDM > IFFWDM Control Panel. IF-FW/DM Control Panel (Windows) There are three sliders available in the con- t r o l p a n e l . G e n e r a l l y, l o w e r a u d i o b u f f e r settings offer [...]
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T ASCAM IF-FW/DM Owner's Manual 11 Setup Enable WDM When first installed, the IF-FW/DM will 4 active stereo pairs of audio through its WDM d r i v e r. I f y o u a r e u s i n g a D AW t h a t c a n - not use ASIO and you want to access all 24 channels of audio, click this option. It may take 1 to 2 minutes for W indows to finish reconfiguring[...]
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Printed in China TEAC CORPORA TION Phone: +81-422-52-5082 www .tascam.com 3-7-3, Nakacho, Musashino-shi, T okyo 180-8550, Japan TEAC AMERICA, INC. Phone: +1-323-726-0303 www .tascam.com 7733 T elegraph Road, Montebello, Califor nia 90640 TEAC CANADA L TD. Phone: +1905-890-8008 Facsimile: +1905-890-9888 www .tascam.com 5939 W allace Street, Mississa[...]