Tascam Comprehensive Guide to FW-1884 Controls and Monitor Setup

4 – Control Surface Modes and Operation

4.2.5Banking

You can use the h BANK y keys to shift through the four banks of controls. As mentioned earlier, only the channel strip controls – faders, channel MUTE, SOLO and SEL keys, and channel encoders – are bankable. All other surface controls are unaffected by the banking commands.

For specific information on the FW-1884’s MIDI Con- trol Protocol, refer to section 5.1.3, “MIDI PRO- GRAMMING TAB” and the documentation supplied on the CD-ROM.

“Hidden” functions

These functions available in MIDI Control mode are not marked on the control surface.

SHIFT+Encoder

Fine (not coarse) control of MIDI controller output value

SHIFT+CTRL+F8

Reset the MIDI surface programming to default values and write it to FLASH memory

4.3Monitor Mix Mode – (General Notes)

The FW-1884 can be used as a stand-alone 18x2 mixer in MON MIX mode. The primary benefit of MON MIX mode is to provide a means of monitoring your audio inputs in a zero-latency environment. By using MON MIX mode to monitor the audio from your

inputs along with the audio return from your DAW application, it is possible to overdub tracks to your DAW software with none of the audio processing delays inherent in DAW applications.

4.3.1Audio I/O and the Monitor Mixer

In MON MIX mode, there are three banks which cor- respond to the three types of audio inputs available on the FW-1884. The three banks are labeled above the BANK switches as follows:

•ANLG – Controls the monitor levels of the eight analog inputs

•ADAT – Controls the monitor levels of the eight ADAT inputs

•D IN – Controls the monitor levels of the S/PDIF digital inputs

Note that in the third, or D IN bank, channels 3-8 are inactive.

It is important to understand that in MON MIX mode, the FW-1884’s channel strips are addressing the monitor levels of the FW-1884’s 18 inputs. While you will still hear the audio return from your DAW com- puter, and the FW-1884’s transport controls will still control your DAW’s transports, moving the faders will have no effect on your DAW’s internal (software) mixer.

Another important point to note is that, in MON MIX mode, the faders do not affect the levels the inputs sent to your DAW. The levels to the DAW inputs from ana- log inputs 1-8 (Bank 1) are controlled solely by their respective TRIM POTS. The eight ADAT inputs (Bank 2) and the two digital inputs (Bank 3) are passed to your DAW application at unity gain; their level must be regulated at the digital source.

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