Anyone ever use a Tascam US-428 with Reaper?

[diggy_dude]

The US-428 isn't in Reaper's (very short) list of compatible surfaces. There's a Frontier logo on the Tascam, which led me to try installing it as an AlphaTrack or Tranzport. No joy.

The closest I've come so far to getting it to do anything was installing it as a HUI. The level faders move the Reaper pan pots that way, but that ain't gonna cut it.

Installing the Tascam as a regular MIDI device vs. a control surface and trying to assign CC actions by moving the faders accomplishes nothing.

Any ideas?

 

[d.bop]

Well, I personally don't own one but I did some digging for you. A REAPER forum member seems to have written a csurf plugin for REAPER and the US-428.

Here's the post: Cockos Confederated Forums - View Single Post - Tascam US428 control surface

After you extract and copy the .dll file, it should appear in REAPER's control surface dropdown in the preferences.

No idea how well it works.. Hopefully it does!

 

[diggy_dude]

I found kfoltman's DLL and installed it. Works pretty well, but it looks like my channel 1 and master faders are dead. (No sign of life from them in MIDI-OX either.)

 

[imiller21]

Well since we're talking the same series, what about the Tascam US-1641? I need 6-8 channels to multitrack my drum kit, and this seems like a good unit as far as bang for the buck goes.

 

[diggy_dude]

Well since we're talking the same series, what about the Tascam US-1641? I need 6-8 channels to multitrack my drum kit, and this seems like a good unit as far as bang for the buck goes.

It would have to do one of the following:

(A) support Mackie Universal protocol
(B) support the generic "four banks of encoders" protocol in Reaper
(C) be installed as a regular MIDI device with a Reaper key map file rather than as a control surface

I had found the thread d.bop posted above shortly before he posted it. The thread was quite revealing. The Reaper developers asked for someone to loan them a US-428, then apparently never took anyone up on one of the several offers they received. While everyone was waiting for Cockos to release US-428 support, the forum user kfoltman wrote a native US-428 plugin for Reaper that works quite well. (It eventually turned out that one fader on my US-428 was damaged or defective, so I returned it.) Apparently kfoltman sold his own US-428 and quit working on or supporting the plugin at some point.

The point of the foregoing is, you can't really count on Cockos/Reaper to support a given device natively, no matter how much you pester them about it. One reason commercial DAWs are so much more expensive than Reaper is because they support so much more hardware than Reaper.

 

[jjones1700]

Well since we're talking the same series, what about the Tascam US-1641? I need 6-8 channels to multitrack my drum kit, and this seems like a good unit as far as bang for the buck goes.

The US-1641 works just fine with Reaper. I've been using that interface and Reaper for about 6 months on Windows 7. The only real issue I had was that I have had it blue screen on me twice in the middle of a session. I downloaded and installed the latest Win7 drivers and all has been good since. If you are using XP, I don't foresee any problems.