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I am the not so proud owner of the Tascam TM-D1000 Digital Mixer. I gave up using it as the front end of my PC based DAW in favor of a dedicated channel strip (ART DI/o) w/ a S/PDIF out to my AP 24/96. I dusted the TM-D1000 off and am now successfully using it as a remote control for Sonar 2.1 via MIDI. I have just recently thought of another use for it but cannot get it to work properly the way I've envisioned it to.
Here's the deal. First a touch of background info. As I said, I'm recording via a dedicated 2 channel tube pre (w/ a 6-band compressor and parametric EQ in the inserts). It's has A/D converters in it so I'm sending S/PDIF signal out of it into my AP 24/96 soundcard. I'm currently monitoring out of the RCA out of my AP 24/96 into a Mackie 1202. I have many other things plugged into the Mackie as well... anyhow, you get the idea. It's a monitoring board.
What I'd like to do is use the S/PDIF out of the AP 24/96 and use that to monitor certain tracks that I choose separately from the RCA outs. So I figured I'd send the out of the S/PDIF from my PC to the Tascam TM-D1000 to do the D/A conversion, then out of the TM-D1000 into the mackie. That way I could be recording vocals or something and send all the other tracks to the RCA out and the vocals to the S/PDIF out. I could then apply effects to just the vocals from the mackie (aux sends/returns to some outboard gear). This way I can avoid any input monitoring of effects on whatever I'm recording. My rigs latency is pretty terrible making input monitoring useless anyway. You all know the equation.... Old PC+ 98SE + Sonar w/ MME drivers = terrible latency.
Anyway, I can't figure out how to set up the tascam to recieve an incoming S/PDIF signal and output it correctly to the mackie as an analog signal. I have it working somewhat but the RCA sounds way better if I A/B them. I'm afraid that it is because of the truncation of the 24-bit word lengths I'm sending the TM-D1000. I've come to understand that this was a problem w/ this mixer. The truncation of 24bit words to 20bit that is. What settings should the Tascam be set at? How the hell do I set this up correctly??
Sorry this is so lengthy. If you need more info, just let me know.
cheers
jay
I am the not so proud owner of the Tascam TM-D1000 Digital Mixer. I gave up using it as the front end of my PC based DAW in favor of a dedicated channel strip (ART DI/o) w/ a S/PDIF out to my AP 24/96. I dusted the TM-D1000 off and am now successfully using it as a remote control for Sonar 2.1 via MIDI. I have just recently thought of another use for it but cannot get it to work properly the way I've envisioned it to.
Here's the deal. First a touch of background info. As I said, I'm recording via a dedicated 2 channel tube pre (w/ a 6-band compressor and parametric EQ in the inserts). It's has A/D converters in it so I'm sending S/PDIF signal out of it into my AP 24/96 soundcard. I'm currently monitoring out of the RCA out of my AP 24/96 into a Mackie 1202. I have many other things plugged into the Mackie as well... anyhow, you get the idea. It's a monitoring board.
What I'd like to do is use the S/PDIF out of the AP 24/96 and use that to monitor certain tracks that I choose separately from the RCA outs. So I figured I'd send the out of the S/PDIF from my PC to the Tascam TM-D1000 to do the D/A conversion, then out of the TM-D1000 into the mackie. That way I could be recording vocals or something and send all the other tracks to the RCA out and the vocals to the S/PDIF out. I could then apply effects to just the vocals from the mackie (aux sends/returns to some outboard gear). This way I can avoid any input monitoring of effects on whatever I'm recording. My rigs latency is pretty terrible making input monitoring useless anyway. You all know the equation.... Old PC+ 98SE + Sonar w/ MME drivers = terrible latency.
Anyway, I can't figure out how to set up the tascam to recieve an incoming S/PDIF signal and output it correctly to the mackie as an analog signal. I have it working somewhat but the RCA sounds way better if I A/B them. I'm afraid that it is because of the truncation of the 24-bit word lengths I'm sending the TM-D1000. I've come to understand that this was a problem w/ this mixer. The truncation of 24bit words to 20bit that is. What settings should the Tascam be set at? How the hell do I set this up correctly??
Sorry this is so lengthy. If you need more info, just let me know.
cheers
jay