FW-1884 does not find the connected FE-8 modules

[mahan]

Hey!¨
I have been using my FW-1884 many years and I just love it. Now after many years research I found 2 piece of FE-8 and I cannot get them talking to my FW-1884.
I have properly both uninstalled and installed the latest FW-1884 software witch I think is the 1.80 version. So my FW-1884 is working alright but when I connect my FE-8 my FW-1884 does´nt find the FE-8, and sometimes makes my PC to make the "bluescreen"

My system is like :

Wndows 7 home premium service pack 1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700 CPU @ 3,50GHz 3.5GHz
RAM 16,0 Gb
64-bit
CUBASE 6.5 Artist

Is there a version that I should use to get my FE-8 installed or does the 1.80 have all the drivers that the FE-8 needs to setup automaticly.

Ont thing I haven´t tryied out yet is buying a couple of new firewire cables, But I´ll try that that as soon some shop opens its doors.

Some notes I have made that when I try to start up both the FW-1884 and the FE-8 the "firewire! leds are blinking in a specific rate as 0000000-00 , that means seven blinks, a pause and two blinks. What does that indicate?

So this is my sad story, I´ll soon give my left arm to get my system going. Anybody please give me some advise.

best reg. JOHAN

 

[yamahadrums]

Hi there,
I hope you connected FE-8 directly to FW-1884, right? Do you see the FE-8 in the control panel of FW-1884?

 

[mahan]

Thank you Yamahadrums!
I have tryied even that one but no connection and no FE-8 in the controlpanel.

 

[yamahadrums]

You didn't answer if you see the FE in Tascam's control panel. Is it there?
Keep in mind, that only one of the 2 ports on the FW-1884 is for FE-8.

 

[mahan]

Jeps!
No FE-8 appears in the controlpanel but the firewire leds just keep on blinking so something is happening. I have to send the FW-1884 and the FE-8:ths to the Tascam importer for inspection because its either the FW-1884 motherboard or the firewire cirquit that causes the problems.
Many thanks for youre support and lets hope for a happy new year!

 

[yamahadrums]

Change the driver for Tascam FW-1884 to Windows Legacy Driver in the Device manager. Very often this fixes the problems.

 

[mahan]

I have the proper drivers because the FW-1884 is working fine, it just can´t find the FE-8 modules.

 

[yamahadrums]

The last thing I can suggest is factory reset FW-1884. I know it's working fine, but this helped me many times. For a hard reset on the FW-1884, its press PAN, FLIP, AUX3, AUX4 and simultaneously power on.

 

[mahan]

Tryied that one too but nothing seems to help so they promised to fix the whole thing by the importer, so I´ll let you know the results of their fixing session. I am prepared to pay a few hundred euros because I like the FW-1884 and it has been my "best friend" for many years.

Here is a link to my music done with the FW-1884 if you wanna listen, It´s a one man band system cause I do all the stuff by my self in my tiny homestudio
The site is in finnish language but the player is familier, just press the |> play button

http://www.mikseri.net/mahan/

enjoy!

 

[yamahadrums]

Sorry to hear that. At least your music is good. What drums are you using?

 

[rshriver]

I recently had the same issues. It was a bad FW board. Not cheap. But I really have loved the fw1884.

Since my most recent problems, I have also changed computers (Win7 home) and I cannot get the faders to respond. Plays back audio fine. but shuttle controls, faders etc. are not responding.

Any ideas?

 

[yamahadrums]

What DAW?

 

[rshriver]

Adobe Audition CS3

 

[yamahadrums]

Did you try to switch between different modes: Native, Mackie, HUI...?

 

[rshriver]

Yes, I have tried that several times. I don't really see any changes. None of the faders nor shuttle controls work in any mode, and yet the master fader works in all. I suspect that's because it is just seeing the FW1884 as an "interface" and not a controller.

 

[DLearyUS]

i have 2 x FE-8's on 1884...works fine but be advised NEVER hotplug ANY firewire cables...ONLY when all power is OFF. I purchased this FW1884 with a blown firewire interface chip resulting in someone hotpluging it. the chip is basically connected directly to the interface pins (no protection) so im assuming the FE-8's use a similar design. TEAC/Tascam can repair for a reasonable fee. hopefully is just bad cable in your case.

 

[rshriver]

Once I upgraded my DAW to Audition CS6 - all is well. I learned the hot swap Firewire lesson the hard way a while back. Another caveat: I use TRS patch bays. NEVER plug in patch cable with phantom power on. Burned up a few mic preamps in the FW1884 doing that. Still like the damned thing, though.

 

[Dennis Gilley]

Hello, new member here. I have been using the FE-8 times 2 for years. The only way I could get my FW-1884 to see the FE-8's is to use a fire wire card that has a TI (Texas Instruments) chip set. they are not expensive and easy to find on the web. Be careful with the bandwidth. I had to buy another TI fire wire card when I added the second FE-8. It worked with the one but was not stable. I was to close to the bandwidth limitation. Hope this helped.