Anyone use Tascam DM24 with sonar 2.2? As a Control Surface?

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I am using both and would like to find out more about getting them to work together rather than just as independant widgets.

I found a DLL from a tascam user to make the thing a control surface. It does allow me to select it from within sonar. This stuff is new to me and I am rediculously busy at the moment so I only get about 2-3 hours every couple of days to put my brain on it.

I am interested in getting the transport and channel arming to work from the DM24 to Sonar 2.2. I am a pretty good reverse engineer so I could probably make some progress on my own after that.

Getting the faders to work together would be great but I still have much to learn about the mixer before I even get to that. I use the automation in Sonar and would like to integrate them but I'm not sure that's even possible.

Thanks for any suggestions

RD
 
Are you using the 3.0 software for the DM24? I believe that's a free download from the Tascam site, and gives HUI emulation.

Then you have to dig into Sonar speaking HUI, which I'm interested in as well, but haven't figured out yet. It seems like various boards (dm24, o2r96, o1v96, etc.) are all speaking HUI, so it should be a natural candidate for Cakewalk to support directly. They do a darn good job with the Mackie control...

-lee-
 
New software is not available yet...

I have version 2.03 running on my dm24. It does have HUI emulation as far as I know but I've got so much to learn that I'm not sure what HUI is. I thought that was a Pro Tools thing. Maybe it's sonar that has it and I'm just confusing the two.

I've been reading manuals like crazy and the truth has yet to materialize.

Thinking about it during lunch today I was wondering if I would be losing some quality by using sonar to control volume and pan and not the mixer. That is if the mixer was a control surface. Could I make sonar control the automation in the mixer. Would fades and pan's be better if the actual volume was controlled by the fader on the mixer or would it matter?

Oh Lord! this is confusing...

RD
 
My mistake - I meant version 2, which is what you're running.

Now to help your confusion about whether to use the mixer or Sonar for the mixdown..... the answer is.....drumroll.....

it depends. (sorry!)

How many channels do you have from your computer to the mixer? That will limit the number of channels you can mix down at one time.

The "mixer" built into Sonar is high quality -- I'd be very suprised if the one in the DM24 was better, and I would expect it to be worse.

I believe the DM24 has its own automation, which could possibly be driven by the timeclock in Sonar, but Sonar gives you so many options and such a large number of channels, and so many possible effects (including free ones you can download from the web), that it seems like using Sonar would be much more flexible.

-lee-
 
Using the DLL I mentioned above I managed to get the faders on the dm24 to react and move with the faders in Sonar and then it stopped working. Not sure why it stopped buy my brain is so hard boild that I couldn't poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. It will have to wait for another night.

Good night.

RD
 
rcktdg said:
Using the DLL I mentioned above I managed to get the faders on the dm24 to react and move with the faders in Sonar and then it stopped working. Not sure why it stopped buy my brain is so hard boild that I couldn't poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. It will have to wait for another night.

Good night.

RD
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Just curious if you ever got this to work. I just purchased a DM24 and want to do the same thing. I running Sonar XL 2.0 right now.


Thanks

Malcolm
 
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