Hardware Compatibility

TASCAM GigaStudio 3.04 Known Issues

•	64-bit processors are not supported at this •	Due to the wide variety of PC hardware, there
	time.	may be some systems that exhibit instability
•	Testing has revealed an incompatibility be-	when Hyper Threading is enabled. If you
•	Testing has revealed an incompatibility be-	find your system unstable with HT, disable
	3	find your system unstable with HT, disable
	tween GS and the SanDisk USB SmartMedia	it and send us detailed system specs and a
	Drive. This drive should not be connected	it and send us detailed system specs and a
	to your GS3 computer.	Diag report to TASCAM Operational Support.
•	GSIF-2 MIDI is only supported on a device	Further improvements are planned to be
•	GSIF-2 MIDI is only supported on a device	made in this area.
	when it is also acting as your audio interface.	made in this area.
	when it is also acting as your audio interface.
	Only a combination audio/MIDI interface
	can act as a GSIF-2 audio/MIDI interface
	with GigaStudio.

Third-Party Software Compatibility

•Known incompatible VST plug ins:

°Steinberg Tools One

°Yamaha Vocal Rack

°NI Absynth – If this is on your GS3 ma- chine, ensure that it is not in the GigaStu- dio 3 VST search path. (NOTE: GS3 does not support VST instruments)

•Properly implemented GSIF2 drivers are required for GigaStudio to recognize named audio ports such as “Analog” or “ADAT”.

•GigaStudio MIDI ports do not appear in the Pro Tools sequencer. The workaround is to use ReWire MIDI ports.

•Do not stop the audio engine while in Re- Wire mode. If you do, the ReWire device will have to be re-initialised.

•Steinberg’s Clean 5 cannot be installed on the same computer as GigaStudio 3.

•Cakewalk Project 5 cannot be installed on the same computer as GigaStudio 3.

•Do not run Microsoft Outlook on the same computer as GigaStudio 3.

•Ahead Nero InCD cannot currently be in- stalled on the same computer as GigaStudio 3. Note that this only applies to the “InCD” component of Nero, the other components of the Nero package do not exhibit problems. Symptoms of conflict with InCD include less than optimal amounts of kernel RAM available to GigaStudio.

GigaPiano II and GigaPiano II LE

•If you hear popping in the audio as the sus- tain damper pedal is moved up and down:

•Try increasing the audio buffer size in your sound card driver (See your sound card docu- mentation for details on changing GSIF buf- fer size). In the GigaPiano-II and GigaPiano-II LE, the dynamic damping of the convolu- tion model causes momentary changes in the real time computing cpu loading. On

some sound cards, if the buffer setting is too small, the audio can become overrun with momentary changes in read/write position. A more robust setting (i.e. larger hardware buffer size) is recommended for increased reliability in the audio output.

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