TASCAM US1800 DRIVER

[guanacol]

Hello everyone, please, I need help to find a driver for my Tascam US 1800 audio interface. I work in Windows 11 OS, but no driver available in Tascam web page, works in Windows 11. Does anybody please help me to solve my problem?
Thanks.
billyross@gmail.com
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[spantini]

See if this works - drivers from the European site :

Tascam Europe | Audio Recording Devices for Professionals and Hobbyists

The Tascam Europe Website in english language. Full information about current audio recorders, audio players, mixing consoles, computer audio interfaces (usb interfaces) and optional accessories for professional and semi-professional use.

www.tascam.eu

 

[guanacol]

Thanks a lot Spantini, I'll check it, and if it works, I'll publish results in this page, since there's several people stuck in the same issue.
Thanks again.

 

[Bio-Rhythm]

Did you have it working well with windows 10?

 

[guanacol]

Hello Bio-Rhythm: yes, It worked on Win 10.
Thanks for your help.

 

[keck]

I also can't get my new Windows 11 laptop to install any of the drivers so I'd love to hear if there's a fix. I tried compatability mode and every driver available. Weird thing is the most recent driver, "207," gives an error where windows claims it's only for 32-bit systems. But that same driver worked fine on my previous Windows 10 computer. Boo windows 11!

 

[CrawfordDrummerBoi]

I fixed it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God for Chat GPT!!!!
I've literally spent about 6 hours today trying to research this and figure it out.
It turns out there's a way that you can disable the BitLocker, which is blocking the install. I installed version 2.07 with no issues.
They offered two different options to fix it. One is running it off of an external USB drive.
The one that I did was disabling the BitLocker temporarily by restarting your computer and pressing f7. Mine came up where it told me I needed a restore key code, but after a few minutes it finally just restarted anyway. I never touched anything because I wasn't sure what I was doing. My screen went black and I got scared. After about 30 seconds I hit the power button and it came up. I downloaded the install again for 2.07 and it downloaded with no problem at all. It asked me about halfway through to go back and hook up the US 1800, because I was in the kitchen with my laptop and not in the studio.
As soon as I did that it finished installing I went to reaper, and selected the mic input and boom! There was!

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[guanacol]

Hello CrawfordDrummerBoi, than you very much for your commitment in research about this Tascam US1800 driver, I am sure it will help a lot of users who own this audio interface, that are stranded for not having the proper audio driver. In my case, here where I live, is not very easy to get the latest devices, due their costs, so I am compelled to remain with this interface. Thanks to your experiment, we all have a chance to recover this interface, I´ll try to follow your instructions, and I´ll publish here the results. Thanks again.
* One thing I did not understand, is that according your description, you had to disable BitLocker, but in the image of your search in chat GPT, there is not anything about it.

 

[Bio-Rhythm]

Hi Crawford
Did you get the 1800 working with Windows 10 or 11?

 

[Bio-Rhythm]

I was having issues with the onboard audio chip (realtek) or it's software on my Lenovo Ideapad 3 and my tascam US-1800. For the first while everything was working ok. I disabled the onboard chip and only used my tascam. However I enabled it once while I was away from home because I needed sound and and then when I tried disabling it again windows 11 kept trying to enable it after a reboot. The audio icon on the taskbar (the one you click on to access volume control) kept flashing and when I opened the volume control I could see where you set the default audio source, that it was also switching back and forth between the internal chip and the US-1800. I updated the drivers on the internal chip and reloaded the tascam drivers and all seemed to be fine until I noticed my fan was on all the time. The task manager said the realtek software was using a ton of CPU processing power even though it was not set as the default or even being used. My CPU was at pinned at 100%. Again I couldn't disable it without the conflict. I then tried to disable the internal audio chip in the bios. This is something I've done before with great success in the past but this bios does not have the option to disable any onboard chipsets.
Then my big mistake...
I'm not sure how but I mistakenly changed the secure boot setting and bitlocked my hard drive. It didn't even give me a warning. I knew I made the mistake and tried to exit the bios without saving any changes but it bitlocked anyway. To make things worse, in an effort to disable bitlocker by accessing my key online through Microsoft, it gave me the wrong key even though I just updated to Windows 11 a couple months ago. I'm currently reloading windows 11 onto my notebook again and will have to set up my tascam and all my VST synths from the bottom up as well. I lost a couple of weeks of song programming for the band I'm currently playing in. Luckily I did do a backup a couple weeks ago so only one song was lost but lots of updates in those two weeks that I'll have to rediscover.
The saddest part of this story is my failing to do regular backups...and I know better. I've only had this kind of disaster happen a couple times in my 30 years of music programming on computers but I got too comfortable and had too much faith in my computer. From now on it's regular backups after each session in my studio and after any changes to songs. I don't know if I'll be faced with the same problem with the tascam and windows 11 and the onboard audio chip again... I expect so. I'll leave an update if I can figure that issue out.