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- Tascam DM-3200
To All:
The saga of getting TDIF (useable) audio into the DM continued toward defeat yesterday. Numerous internet searches, purchases of new BNC word clock cables and near poetic readings of the DM manual was the activity of the day, particularly for my partner who ultimately said late last night, "F-^-#-@-K it, we're getting that Tascam firewire card."
We were able to get the board to slave to the DAW via the MOTU using WC but no audio except for some digital noise. We did everything and stumbled across another DM user on a different forum, named Matt, who was experiencing the identical issue. Finally, his story ended with him figuring out that he had the wrong TDIF cables. Once Matt received the correct cables from Sweetwater, he was happy as a claim.
We also tried the ADAT I/O, through ADAT synch and WC. We could slave the DM to the MOTU but similar clocking noise and other weirdness. This was particularly puzzling because everything was set up correctly and that other user Matt apparently had the same results when he tried the ADAT I/O.
We entered the possibility that our TDIF cables were wacky but ultimately just became too tired to deal with it. So, we decided to bite the bullet and go for the Tascam FW card and use that in combination with our Lynx. Down the road will be see if there are any driver/firmware updates for the MOTU and perhaps try the ADAT I/O again because from time to time we get clients who want to transfer old ADAT tracks to hard disk. But for now our plans are to work just with the Lynx and learn other aspects of the DM and do other wiring such as cabling the analog inserts, etc.
The saga of getting TDIF (useable) audio into the DM continued toward defeat yesterday. Numerous internet searches, purchases of new BNC word clock cables and near poetic readings of the DM manual was the activity of the day, particularly for my partner who ultimately said late last night, "F-^-#-@-K it, we're getting that Tascam firewire card."
We were able to get the board to slave to the DAW via the MOTU using WC but no audio except for some digital noise. We did everything and stumbled across another DM user on a different forum, named Matt, who was experiencing the identical issue. Finally, his story ended with him figuring out that he had the wrong TDIF cables. Once Matt received the correct cables from Sweetwater, he was happy as a claim.
We also tried the ADAT I/O, through ADAT synch and WC. We could slave the DM to the MOTU but similar clocking noise and other weirdness. This was particularly puzzling because everything was set up correctly and that other user Matt apparently had the same results when he tried the ADAT I/O.
We entered the possibility that our TDIF cables were wacky but ultimately just became too tired to deal with it. So, we decided to bite the bullet and go for the Tascam FW card and use that in combination with our Lynx. Down the road will be see if there are any driver/firmware updates for the MOTU and perhaps try the ADAT I/O again because from time to time we get clients who want to transfer old ADAT tracks to hard disk. But for now our plans are to work just with the Lynx and learn other aspects of the DM and do other wiring such as cabling the analog inserts, etc.