Tascam Us-428, Just bought and am totally lost, HELP! Options

[Mangrilla]

So I just got this tascam interface for my computer. But the directions are mostly for PC and when they are for mac, they are for OS 9. I checked the website without much luck. I have all the drivers, but I can't get the input to work I guess. I changed the settings in control panel for input to be the tascam, as well as did it in Garageband (I figured that would be a nice simple program to try it out in, but I also have Logic). I can't get the input to work in Tascam's own application (which has a tuner in it) or in Garageband. Any help?? I hope I didn't pay all this money for an expensive rock... ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHH

This post has been edited by Mangrilla: Thu 5 Feb 2004, 22:08

[Reedybloke]

Mangrilla
Good to hear someone else is getting bugged by US-428 and OSX.
I have had similar worries about Tascam 428 and buying a pig in a poke.
But it should work.
Finally after a struggling newbie mine works fine with Panther 10.3.2 as an audio and midi input.
If you have worked it out now my apologies. But...
What i did was put the Panther driver on the HDrive. Plug tascam usb directly into Mac (not via external port). Chose Tascam as input under 'sound prefs' and get the USB input for midi and audio. If you just want audio and no latency put tascam line output into mac line input and choose 'built in audio' in sound prefs.
My tascam works with GB and logic.
if you put SoundFlower on HDrive (from http://www.cycling74.com/index.html) you can even route the midi output of Garageband into Soundtrack as recordable audio signal.
It doesn't do anything in the knobs department but contol one track at a time volume via the Master slider.
Reedybloke
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