Hi,
I have a Tascam US-2000 interface. It's one of those 16 channel USB deals with built-in pres. I've been having a lot of trouble running this, both with Sonar and Reaper. Lots of sputtering and dropouts and digital distortion. Sometimes it happens right away. Sometimes it takes a while. Once the audio starts breaking down I have to reset the Tascam.
I switched up the drivers. I've tried the Tascam ASIO drivers, WDM and ASIO4All. The Tascam ASIO seems to work the best.
My computer is a Sony VAIO laptop, i7 processor and solid state hard drive. This computer used to be used for software development and has database and web server services I had to disable. Also the hard drive is kind of full (70%). So it's not a clean machine, but it does run audio from a DAW ok when I use the builtin Realtek drivers. Plus the recordings I'm running are just 4-5 channels, and not a lot of extra processing.
So I'm not sure if I should try a third interface and see what happens (the Tascam replaced a Motu 828mkii that died), or set up a dedicated recording computer.
Any setup suggestions I might be missing? I did adjust latency and that doesn't seem to do much. Also, should I always try and use whatever drivers came with my interface? Is ASIO used by most people with an external interface?
Thanks.
Issue with Tascam US-2000
- Nick Sevilla
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Intersting. My US-2000 works like a dream on my PC running XP and my Vaio running 7 Home Premium. It would have cost a lot less to fix the Vaio, probably by reloading the OS, than it did to buy a Mac. If you don't want your Vaio, I'll take it. I won't even charge you to recycle it!
"Stare with your ears"- Ken Nordine
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