Teac FW-1082 Setup Guide - Manual (Page 4)

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TASCAM FW-1082 Setup Guide
1 – Introduction
About the FW-1082
The FW-1082 provides your computer with high-
quality audio facilities: eight channels of analog
input and two of output, with two channels of digital
audio I/O through coaxial connections—all at up to
96 kHz 24-bit, two physical MIDI input and two
physical output ports, together with virtual control
MIDI I/O and two virtual OUTs, and a control sur-
face with motorized touch-sensitive faders, rotary
encoders, transport keys and dedicated digital audio
workstation function control keys.
It is connected to the host computer using a single 6-
pin to 6-pin IEEE 1394 cable (supplied) that carries
audio, MIDI and control information back and forth
between the FW-1082 and the computer. See “The
IEEE 1394 standard and the FW-1082” on page 6 for
details.
The control surface can pass information to the host
DAW application through the IEEE 1394 interface,
using MIDI protocol.
NOTE
Before using the FW-1082 with a computer, you must
install the necessary drivers and utility software on your
computer. See “Installation (Windows 2000 and Win-
dows XP)” on page 8, and “Installation (Mac OS X
10.2.8 and above)” on page 11 for details of how to do
this.
The FW-1082 can also act as a standalone dedicated
10–2 monitor mixer in one of its main modes (see
“MON MIX (monitor mix) surface mode” on page 5
for full details).
There are three main surface modes; accessed
through the mode keys as shown here (
COMPUTER ,
MIDI CTRL and MON MIX ).
Pressing one of these keys will light it, and put the
FW-1082 into the appropriate mode.
Although there are only eight physical channel mod-
ules fitted to the FW-1082, the
BANK keys can be
used to access different fader and module banks.
Note that the banks accessed by the BANK keys have
different meanings depending on the surface mode
selected (
MON MIX mode, or MIDI CTRL mode, or
COMPUTER mode); see the sections on these modes
for details.
COMPUTER surface mode
In this surface mode, operating the surface controls
sends messages to the DAW software on the host
computer through the control MIDI port using the
IEEE 1394 connection.
For operations carried out in this mode to have any
effect, the FW-1082 should be connected to a host
computer with the DAW software running, and con-
figured to accept messages from the FW-1082 con-
trol MIDI port.
The FW-1082 operates by default in its Native Mode,
typically used with dedicated control surface plug-
ins. For those applications that do not have such a
plug-in, it can emulate the Mackie Control or HUI
protocols. The operating mode is selectable through
the software Control Panel.
See the Application Guide for full details of how to
operate the FW-1082 with your DAW software.
Figure 1.1: Mode selection keys
Figure 1.2: Bank selection keys