Tascam FW-1884 - Manual (Page 22)

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FE­8 With Mackie Control and HUI Emulation modes
FE­8 support using these emulation modes will vary from app to app with the particular
app’s level of implementation. The outline below shows app support for these control
protocols known at the time of this writing.
· Cubase – Does not currently support multiple control surfaces.
· Nuendo – Does not currently support multiple control surfaces.
· Logic – It is recommended that the Logic plug­in provided by Emagic and
included with the FW­1884 be used for surface control of Logic.
· Pro Tools – Supports multiple HUI surfaces. Each HUI surface must be assigned
to an FW­1884 / FE­8 Control Port. It may be necessary to trash the Pro Tools
preferences file and/or rebuild your OMS setup in order for Pro Tools to properly
communicate with multiple emulated HUIs. Pro Tools expects to see a HUI on
MIDI channel #1 of a given Control Port.
· Digital Performer – It is recommended that the DP plug­in included with the FW­
1884 be used for surface control of DP.
o Mackie Control – DP expects to see a Mackie Control on MIDI channel
#16 of a given Control Port. Any number of FE­8s emulating Mackie
Control expanders may be added below a master FW­1884 emulating a
Mackie Control.
o HUI – DP expects to see a HUI on MIDI channel #1 of a given Control
Port. At the time of this writing DP does not support multiple HUI
controllers.
· Sonar – It is recommended that the Sonar plug­in included with the FW­1884 be
used for surface control of Sonar.
o Mackie Control – Sonar does not support the Mackie Control expander
and therefore will not support an FE­8 emulating a Mackie Control
expander.
SoftLCD
This applet included with V 1.10 drivers is designed to emulate the function of a
hardware LCD scribble strip when the FW­1884 is used in Mackie Control or HUI
emulation mode. The extent of the scribble strip emulation varies greatly from app to app
and depends on a particular app’s implementation of the Mackie Control or HUI protocol.
Revisions of the Sonar and Digital Performer plug­ins designed to work with SoftLCD
are currently under development. This has been included with driver version 1.20 &
higher.
SoftLCD is not supported under Mac OS 9.
Maintenance Items
· Latency and record timing has been improved on all platforms.
· A rare audio dropout problem on high speed dual processor Macs has been fixed.