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]

Hey, cool down!

I was asking questions you were not answering in your post at all and giving hints of thing to try if you have not already done so. We see questions here everyday of the year here, and it's usual for posters to left things that should have been told first hand, will you PLEASE answer to these?

I don't have the answer, but I know ways to troubleshoot some stuff (not everything, as everyone here) but we won't progress if you yell when we try to help.

If your problem was obvious, the tascam/motu guys would have give you the answer. So let's track the not so obvious, thanks.