Tascam FW-1884 Notes - Table of Contents

Manual is about: Professional Control Surface / FireWire Audio-MIDI Interface

Summary of FW-1884

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    » fw-1884 professional control surface / firewire audio-midi interface digital performer (macintosh) notes.

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    Table of contents 2 tascam fw-1884 standard functionality.................................... 3 programmable keys ........................................ 3 virtual mac keyboard keys ............................ 3 to set up the fw-1884 for use with digital performer ....................................

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    Tascam fw-1884 3 digital performer (macintosh) the tascam fw-1884 control surface plug-in enables control of the most common functions within digital performer. By default the surface is setup to eas- ily play, record, and control automation functions. Extended key modifiers and re-mappable function...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): accessing channels 4 tascam fw-1884 6 select control surface setup from the basics pull-down menu. Set hardware to fw- 1884 and midi communications to fw-1884, control-16 . 7 select audio system from the basics pull- down menu. Set audio sytem type to motu audio system...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): accessing channels tascam fw-1884 5 jumping directly to a bank of eight channels 1 hold ctrl and press one of the following keys: f7/int - jumps to bank 1 (channels 1-8) f8/adat - jumps to bank 2 (channels 9-16) f9/spdif - jumps to bank 3 (channels 17-24) f10/wclk - ju...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): playback 6 tascam fw-1884 playback the fw-1884 can control dp's playback, rewind, fast forward, markers, jog-shuttle, mute, solo, archive, and looping. To play and stop • press the play key to play. • •press the stop key to stop. To toggle the audible mode on/off • hol...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): playback tascam fw-1884 7 to shuttle forward or back • with the shtl key on, turn the data wheel clockwise to shuttle forward, or counter-clock- wise to shuttle backward. Continue turning in a given direction to increase the shuttle speed. To set a new marker 1 move th...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): recording 8 tascam fw-1884 recording the dp record functions that the fw-1884 can con- trol are recording, punch recording, and automation recording. To record 1 arm a track by holding the rec key (above the eq encoders) and pressing the sel key on the desired track. 2...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): navigating within dp tascam fw-1884 9 to disable track automation • hold the wrt key and press the track sel key to toggle read automation. • hold the read key and press the track sel key to turn off automation. Or • hold the read key and press the track sel key twice....

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    Digital performer (macintosh): aux busses 10 tascam fw-1884 to change the master fader assignment • you can switch the master fader assignment to the next or previous virtual master output by holding down the shift and ctrl key while you press either the bank t or g bank key. While shift and ctrl ar...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): effects tascam fw-1884 11 effects the fw-1884 eq keys and encoders control a four band eq when configured in a track effects slot. To configure the four band eq 1 place a four band eq into insert a for the desired track. 2 press the track sel and then one of the four e...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): fw-1884 control listings 12 tascam fw-1884 fw-1884 control listings modifier keys there are five primary modifier keys on the fw-1884. They are used to provide additional functionality with the fw-1884 control surface keys and knobs. They are also used to send virtual ...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): fw-1884 control listings tascam fw-1884 13 encoder knob - adjust track pan and sends select - select track wrt arm track for automation record rec arm track for record shift force fader level to unity solo - solo track mute - mute track aux 1-4 toggle track send mute f...

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    Digital performer (macintosh): fw-1884 control listings 14 tascam fw-1884 wrt - record automation modifier on selected channels tch - toggle automation touch mode on selected channels latch - toggle automation latch mode on selected channels footswitch - record/stop toggle key/knob modifier action.

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