New Tascam Fw-1884 (all In One Unit), anyone seen this yet? Options

[Synthetic]

clicky here to see pic and specs!

IMHO this looks like a very cool idea and I am looking forward to seeing some magazine reviews of this product

[lepetitmartien]

I'm reporting the opinion of a French user, quite happy indeed :

Original thread in French is here.

"I've just got the 1884 tu replace my 02R, I've positive at this moment save some strange behaviours in OS9 : sound gone after an off line bounce, can't listen iTunes while Logic is running (only in 9, you can on X)/ Good converters, transparents but not with enough gain for my taste, trimmer is not stepped.

On use, faders are of qome quality, all basics in Logic are here, but shortcuts are lacking (no screensets, start from a selected object…)
The ASIO eats more power than a 2408.

I use RME ADI pro to have 18 I/O, great with my Lexicon and all my synths at the same time in Logic. All ins are routed to inputs objects of course. Latency can go as low as 1 ms (not bad).

I'm waiting impatiently the drivers for Panther as OSX drivers are much stable than OS9 ones.

All was tested on a Bi I GHz MD, RAM 2 Go, OS 9.2, OSX.2.8; Logic 6.3

The balance quality/result is thumb up.

Fred SANS"