Teac FW-1082 Setup Guide

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DAW Control Surface / FireWire Audio-MIDI Interface

SETUP GUIDE

Table of Contents

1 – Introduction

About the FW-1082 .................................................................................4

COMPUTER surface mode .............................................................................. 4

MIDI CTRL (control) surface mode................................................................. 5

MON MIX (monitor mix) surface mode......................................................... 5

The IEEE 1394 standard and the FW-1082 .............................................6

Before installing the software ...............................................................7

2 – Installation (Windows 2000 and Windows XP)

System requirements..............................................................................8

Installing the software ...........................................................................9

SoftLCD............................................................................................................ 10

3 – Installation (Mac OS X 10.2.8 and above)

System requirements..............................................................................11

Installing the software ...........................................................................11

SoftLCD............................................................................................................ 11

4 – Connections

MIDI connections.....................................................................................12

Analog audio connections......................................................................12

A note on output............................................................................................ 13

Status indicators......................................................................................13

Clock source setting ................................................................................14

Other connections...................................................................................14

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1 – Introduction

Figure 1.1: Mode selection keys .......................................................................4

Figure 1.2: Bank selection keys ........................................................................4

Figure 1.3: Monitor selection keys ...................................................................5

2 – Installation (Windows 2000 and Windows XP)

Figure 2.1: Windows Device Manager showing IEEE.1394 controller ...........8

Figure 2.2: Disabled IEEE.1394 controller icon ................................................8

Figure 2.3: Enabling an IEEE.1394 device in Windows ...................................9

3 – Installation (Mac OS X 10.2.8 and above)

4 – Connections

Table 4.1: Analog audio facilities ...................................................................12

Table 4.2: Specifications of analog audio I/O ................................................12

Figure 4.3: Audio output options in the Control Panel ................................13

Figure 4.4: Indicators .......................................................................................13

Figure 4.5: Clock keys and indicators .............................................................14

Table of Figures

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1 – Introduction

About the FW-1082

The FW-1082 provides your computer with high­quality audio facilities: eight channels of analog
input and two of output, with two channels of digital
audio I/O through coaxial connections—all at up to
96 kHz 24-bit, two physical MIDI input and two
physical output ports, together with virtual control
MIDI I/O and two virtual OUTs, and a control sur­face with motorized touch-sensitive faders, rotary
encoders, transport keys and dedicated digital audio
workstation function control keys.

It is connected to the host computer using a single 6­pin to 6-pin IEEE 1394 cable (supplied) that carries
audio, MIDI and control information back and forth
between the FW-1082 and the computer. See “The
IEEE 1394 standard and the FW-1082” on page 6 for
details.

The control surface can pass information to the host
DAW application through the IEEE 1394 interface,
using MIDI protocol.

NOTE

Before using the FW-1082 with a computer, you must
install the necessary drivers and utility software on your
computer. See “Installation (Windows 2000 and Win­dows XP)” on page 8, and “Installation (Mac OS X

10.2.8 and above)” on page 11 for details of how to do
this.

There are three main surface modes; accessed
through the mode keys as shown here (

MIDI CTRL and MON MIX).

Figure 1.1: Mode selection keys

COMPUTER,

Pressing one of these keys will light it, and put the
FW-1082 into the appropriate mode.

Although there are only eight physical channel mod­ules fitted to the FW-1082, the

BANK keys can be

used to access different fader and module banks.

The FW-1082 can also act as a standalone dedicated
10–2 monitor mixer in one of its main modes (see
“MON MIX (monitor mix) surface mode” on page 5
for full details).

COMPUTER surface mode

In this surface mode, operating the surface controls
sends messages to the DAW software on the host
computer through the control MIDI port using the
IEEE 1394 connection.

For operations carried out in this mode to have any
effect, the FW-1082 should be connected to a host
computer with the DAW software running, and con­figured to accept messages from the FW-1082 con­trol MIDI port.

Figure 1.2: Bank selection keys

Note that the banks accessed by the

BANK keys have

different meanings depending on the surface mode
selected (

COMPUTER mode); see the sections on these modes

MON MIX mode, or MIDI CTRL mode, or

for details.

The FW-1082 operates by default in its Native Mode,
typically used with dedicated control surface plug­ins. For those applications that do not have such a
plug-in, it can emulate the Mackie Control or HUI
protocols. The operating mode is selectable through
the software Control Panel.

See the Application Guide for full details of how to
operate the FW-1082 with your DAW software.

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1 – Introduction

Two analog and/or two S/PDIF outputs are available
for output, depending on the DAW software
configuration.

MIDI CTRL (control) surface mode

In the MIDI control surface mode (MIDI CTRL), the
surface controls are mapped to MIDI control mes­sages. The

BANK keys and indicators are used to

select up to four banks (that is, 32 modules), and the
controls can be set to transmit a different MIDI mes­sage in each bank.

This mapping of controls to messages is set up in the
FW-1082 Control Panel of the host computer, and the
process is fully described in the User’s Guide.

MIDI messages may be transmitted from the physi­cal MIDI OUT ports, or from the virtual MIDI OUT

MON MIX (monitor mix) surface mode

In this surface mode, the FW-1082 acts as a stand­alone mixer, mixing up to eight analog signals
together with the two digital signals received at the
coaxial digital input.

The physical MIDI ports are usable by the DAW
application for transmitting and receiving MIDI data
to and from external MIDI equipment.

ports to the host computer (through the FireWire
cable).

When a control is mapped to a physical MIDI output
port in this mode, when the control is operated, the
appropriate

OUT indicator lights as the MIDI data is

transmitted from the FW-1082.
Note that you do not need to connect the FW-1082 to

a host computer to operate the unit in this mode with
the physical terminals—you only need to connect a
computer when you set up and map the MIDI mes­sages.

Use the master fader to control the master stereo
level, and the

MONITOR control to adjust the level of

the signal sent to the control room monitoring system

MONITOR L and R).

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The FW-1082 provides level, pan, mute and solo
capabilities for these input channels, mixing them
into two outputs

MONITOR (BAL) L and R.

It is also possible to monitor the signals output from
the computer DAW software, either independently, or
together with, the input signals.

Two banks are available using the
analog (

ANLG), and the stereo digital input (D IN)

BANK keys: the

banks. In the second of these, only the first two mod­ules are active, corresponding to the stereo S/PDIF
input channels.

When mixing analog signals, the

TRIM controls can

be used to adjust the signal input levels, which can be
monitored with the overload (
tion (

SIGNAL) indicators on each module.

NOTE

When mixing digital audio, there should be one, and
only one word clock in the system. Follow the instruc­tions in “Clock source setting” on page 14 to set the
word clock for the system.

OL) and signal detec-

When the FW-1082 is in this mode, the three keys
shown in Figure 1.3 are used for selecting the signals
to be monitored:

Figure 1.3: Monitor selection keys

•

COMPUTER selects the signals from the DAW

passed through the FireWire connection. The level
of the signals from the computer is set using the
master output control of the DAW software and the
two analog outputs may be selected (using the soft­ware Control Panel) for output of these signals.

•

INPUTS selects the analog and coaxial signals for

monitoring.

•

BOTH allows the computer signals to be monitored

alongside the input signals

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