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Tascam FIREONE Firewire Audio Interface | 
 enlarge | Brand: Tascam
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $399.00
Buy New: $120.95
You Save: $278.05 (70%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2927
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 15.7 x 9.7 x 4.3
Pushing the limits of what an audio interface can be, TASCAM has launched the FireOne - a FireWire Audio Interface with shortcut keys and a weighted & illuminated jog wheel to inspire creative interaction with the artist's music. The FireOne is the first stereo audio interface in its class that records two mic ins and two outs over FireWire at 96kHz/24-bit audio resolution The most unique feature of the unit is its large, weighted, backlit jog wheel, which allows musicians to zip through the
Warranty: 90 Days Labor, 1 year Parts
MPN: FIREONE
Model: FIREONE
UPC: 043774021598
EAN: 0043774021598
ASIN: B000ODQYNA
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | FireWire Audio Interface features - | | • | 2-inputs, 2-outputs | | • | Up to 96kHz/24-bit audio resolution | | • | Two XLR mic inputs with phantom power and pad | | • | 1/4 high impedance input for recording guitar direct |
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Product Description
The Tascam FireOne is a FireWire Audio Interface with shortcut keys and a weighted & illuminated jog wheel to inspire creative interaction with your music. The FireOne is the first stereo audio interface in its class that records two microphone inputs and two outputs over FireWire at 96kHz/24-bit audio resolution. The FireOne features a pair of microphone inputs with phantom power and pad switches. A front panel guitar input allows convenient direct recording of guitar or bass. MIDI input and output is also provided for 16 channels of MIDI. The FireOne has transport keys and eight shortcut keys to control functions in most popular DAW applications. The FireOne includes a copy of Live Lite 6 Tascam Edition for music creation, production and performance software from Ableton. This included multitrack recording software lets everything work right out of the box. Live's drag and drop interface makes it easy to seamlessly move from basic song ideas, to studio production, to the stage. Two 1/4 stereo headphone outputs Weighted, backlit jog wheel Transport control keys - rewind, fast-forward, stop, play, and record Headphone output with level control Eight DAW shortcut keys Stereo LED meter MIDI in and out 1/4 Footswitch input Bus powered through the FireWire connection or use the included power supply 192kHz support planned for a future software update Tascam Live Lite 6 features - Elastic Audio including Auto Warp, which automatically detects the tempo of audio material and sets Warp Markers A versatile, comprehensive collection of sounds Real-time control Full Arranger Editing 22 Live Audio effects 6 Live Midi effects VST support for instruments and third party effects 'Sampler' instrument for creative sample-based synthesis Impulse instrument for dynamic percussion sound design Supports Windows XP/SP2, Mac OSX (PPC and Intel)
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 New drivers for Vista and Leopard; control buttons can be made to work in Garageband somewhat June 3, 2008
Audio Maven (Another time and place)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've heard about lack of Vista compatibility, Tascam's German site has the new drivers for vista and Leopard compatibility. Just google it.
I am not totally happy with my unit. I am using it under Tiger. The volume controls are grayed out in Garageband and other recording programs on the mac. Must be a driver issues. Anyway, it makes it hard to get adequate volume into my recordings without having to go back later and edit each track to get adequate volume levels. Which also introduces a certain amount of noise. Am i alone in having these problems? Hope for driver updates to solve this. Please.
update: with garageband remote you can get the transport functions to work in Garageband. It's a bit involved as you have to use a midi output reader to see the values being output by the Fireone and then type them into the contol pane preferences of the Garageband Remote program but everything is explained in the zip file. I was able to figure it out. Even the Transport wheel works pretty good. So don't forget to program that for the rewind and forward buttons (wasn't obvious to me at first either). The stop button doesn't seem to work as a stop but as a rewind back to the beginning. Anyway, limited functionality of the buttons is better than none. No new drivers yet. Come on Tascam, update this thing. They haven't delivered as promised record rates yet, class action suit brewing?
 A very nice audio Interface and control surface for Logic 7 November 9, 2007
Diana De Avila (Malta, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded to a MacBookPro with Logic 7 on it. I needed a control surface that was Firewire based and would allow good functionality and portability. This audio interface/control surface provides a nice touch. I went from an Ozone Midi controller to this because this one was Firewire-based AND I never was into using the keyboard. For my purposes, plugging a mic, guitar, bass and electronic drums this was a great option. It took a little bit of fiddling to work with a MacBookPro (with Tiger and Leopard) and involved a rollback of Firewire drivers/firmware which is available on the Tascam website.
Without the rollback, the control surface will not work (or will work unpredictably). This is a Mac/Logic 7 issue. Anyway, I'm pleased. It looks great, works great (after Fix for Mac OS X 10.4.10 FireWire) and seems very durable.
Time will tell.
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