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Nat wrote on 4/21/2004, 10:20 PM
you could set it up using the generic remote driver.
It has a midi learn function, so hit midi learn and move the corresponding control on the tascam.
pwppch wrote on 4/22/2004, 12:38 AM
Vegas does not support the HUI protocol. It supports the Mackie Control Universal Protocol.

If the DM24 can present itself as a Mackie Control Universal, then it can be used with the Mackie driver provided in Vegas 5.


Peter
Foreverain4 wrote on 4/22/2004, 6:21 AM
that sucks. so does that mean i cannot even use it as a generic controller?
pwppch wrote on 4/22/2004, 7:47 AM
No, you should be able to use the Generic Control driver.

I would suggest you contact Tascam with regard to them writing a driver to support the DM24 with Vegas. We will not be developing native drivers for every device ever made or to be made. We are relying on the hardware vendor to support their hardware.

Peter
Foreverain4 wrote on 4/22/2004, 11:12 AM
well, maybe you should give them a call. i just talked to someone in tech support over at tascam and they seem to think it is your job. i realize that you cant write one for ever vendor, but tascam, to me seems to be a major compeditor in the contro surface market.....


just my opinion

Nat wrote on 4/22/2004, 11:16 AM
Well if Tascam want's to be a competitor they should write a driver for vegas.

All the companies are switching to this philosophy.
The next major updates of Cubase and Nuendo will require hardware vendors to write custom drivers.

Let's say I'm an hardware comany making controllers. Let's say 10 daws are able to support the device, I only have 10 drivers to write.

Now if I'm a daw company, I don't see the point in writing drivers for 40+ different controllers...
pwppch wrote on 4/22/2004, 7:53 PM
I have good contacts at Tascam. They are very interested in supporting Sony products and specifically Vegas, at least for the new products.

We are going to sort this all out ASAP. Just going to take a bit.

Peter
PAW wrote on 4/23/2004, 7:41 AM

Is there a detailed explanation of how to configure a MIDI control surface to use the generic driver

I am looking and it does some of the options are new to me

Paul
pwppch wrote on 4/23/2004, 10:04 AM
Well each device is different, so configuring the device itself is out of our scope.

We don't have a detailed tutorial yet for configuriing the Generic Control Driver. On the list.

What device are you using?

Peter
PAW wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:56 AM
Hello Peter,

Nat helped me out in setting up my Edirol UR-80 I needed to setup up the assign part of the generic driver.

It could probably do with some form of documentation as if you are new to control surfaces like me it didn't appear to be that obvious.

One thing we did notice using the generic driver is there is a lag in Vegas responding to the faders for video and audio tracks. Sometimes it takes a couple of moves of the fader before Vegas responds other times it can be 4/5 moves.

I tested the unit with a MIDI utility and it picks up every action on the faders

Paul
pwppch wrote on 4/26/2004, 1:00 AM
It could probably do with some form of documentation as if you are new to control surfaces like me it didn't appear to be that obvious.
Agreed. We are working on it.
One thing we did notice using the generic driver is there is a lag in Vegas responding to the faders for video and audio tracks. Sometimes it takes a couple of moves of the fader before Vegas responds other times it can be 4/5 moves.
This appears to be a bug in the Generic Control. It appears that the pass through NULL logic is broken in the Generic driver.
PAW wrote on 4/26/2004, 1:23 AM

Thanks Peter, Working late?

And thanks for keeping on top of the forums whilst the rest of the team have been living it up at NAB ;-)

Paul