Problems With Dp 4.61 And Tascam Fw-1884...please Help, Control Surface Issues Options

[jfavela]

I had been doing some research on what type of control
surface to add to my studio:

I use a PowerMac G4 dual 867 processors
1.75MB of Ram
Mac OSX.4.8 Tiger
I use MOTU's Digital Performer 4.61
I have 2 UAD-1 PCI cards
with a MOTU 828 mkII

The product I decided to buy is Tascam's FW-1884.
For the most part it drives DP's most commonly used
features great, but it gets sticky when I try to use
it with Plug-ins. I've gone over all the
documentation.

According to MOTU's tech, I should be running it in
HUI emulation, that it's preferred.

The FW-1884 manual says to run it in FW1884 Native
mode. (I think this one does work the best.)

And I tried the Mackie Emulation, still no luck
driving my DAWs plugs or my UAD plugs.

The problems I'm experiencing are the following:

In using the Shuttle Wheel, when using the SHTL key,
many parameters are skipped.

The parameters it does snap to respond, in a word,
"chopppy."

Surely a piece of hardware this expensive can be
configured to drive the stuff I want it to drive,
right?

And yes, I have the latest drivers and software.

Joshua Favela
Clear Image Studios

[lepetitmartien]

Is there no firmware update for the tascam?
What do the guys at Tascam say? And the UAD ones? They should be the first involved after all, it's "their" thing.

In case there's a procedure for it, have you tried to reset the Tascam?

Is there something else connected on the firewire port the tascam is using?

And have you tried with only one UAD-1… (oblique approach)