TASCAM GigaStudio 3.04 Known Issues
GigaStudio 3.04 Known Issues 2
• 64-bit processors are not supported at this
time.
• Testing has revealed an incompatibility be-
tween GS3and the SanDisk USB SmartMedia
Drive. This drive should not be connected
to your GS3computer.
• GSIF-2 MIDI is only supported on a device
when it is also acting as your audio interface.
Only a combination audio/MIDI interface
can act as a GSIF-2 audio/MIDI interface
with GigaStudio.
• Due to the wide variety of PC hardware,there
may be some systems that exhibit instability
when Hyper Threading is enabled. If you
find your system unstable with HT, disable
it and send us detailed system specs and a
Diag report to TASCAM Operational Support.
Further improvements are planned to be
made in this area.
Hardware Compatibility
Third-Party Software Compatibility
• Known incompatible VST plug ins:
° Steinberg Tools One
° Yamaha Vocal Rack
° NI Absynth – If this is on your GS3ma-
chine, ensure that it is not in the GigaStu-
dio 3VST search path. (NOTE: GS3does
not support VST instruments)
• Properly implemented GSIF2drivers are
required for GigaStudio to recognize named
audio ports such as “Analog” or “ADAT”.
• GigaStudio MIDI ports do not appear in the
Pro Tools sequencer. The workaround is to
use ReWire MIDI ports.
• Do not stop the audio engine while in Re-
Wire mode. If you do, the ReWire device
will have to be re-initialised.
• Steinberg’s Clean 5cannot be installed on
the same computer as GigaStudio 3.
• Cakewalk Project 5cannot be installed on
the same computer as GigaStudio 3.
• Do not run Microsoft Outlook on the same
computer as GigaStudio 3.
• Ahead Nero InCD cannot currently be in-
stalled on the same computer as GigaStudio
3. Note that this only applies to the “InCD”
component of Nero, the other components of
the Nero package do not exhibit problems.
Symptoms of conflict with InCD include
less than optimal amounts of kernel RAM
available to GigaStudio.
GigaPiano II and GigaPiano II LE
• If you hear popping in the audio as the sus-
tain damper pedal is moved up and down:
• Try increasing the audio buffer size in your
sound card driver (See your sound card docu-
mentation for details on changing GSIF buf-
fer size). In the GigaPiano-II and GigaPiano-II
LE, the dynamic damping of the convolu-
tion model causes momentary changes in
the real time computing cpu loading. On
some sound cards, if the buffer setting is
too small, the audio can become overrun
with momentary changes in read/write
position. A more robust setting (i.e. larger
hardware buffer size) is recommended for
increased reliability in the audio output.
