Logic Pro X drum combined with Tascam Model 12/16/24

[Brendan Boyle]

Well, my 2012 mac finally died after running Logic Pro X seamlessly for almost 10 years! The drum machine in Logic is an integral part of my workflow now, cannot live without. But while I look to redo my studio, I am inspired by the Tascam Model X platform - my first studio was a Yamaha MT1X (4-track) so I love the idea of the old school approach. Very basic use case question, I think the answer is "yes" but would like to hear opinions and differences between each version (12/16/24).
My use case:
I simply want to START with a Logic Pro X session, basic song layout completely defined in Logic, with Logic Drummer, then I want to do MOST OF MY TRACKING in Tascam Model (X?) . Eventually bring it all back to Logic for adding virtual instruments and mixing and mastering. But boy, would that second phase of doing everything on Tascam be great. Can I run a Logic song and it then synchs up whatever I do in Tascam? Any diffs between 12/16/24? I've seen some references to 12 that has "more features" that confuses me.

 

[Blue Monster 65]

BIG differences between the M12 and the M16/24 - the M12 is a digital board that can function as a DAW controller, while the M16/24 are analog boards that happen to have an SD recorder attached to them (they do NOT function as DAW controllers, but do have MIDI Time Code).

Those are the basics - I would look in the stickies and on Tascam's site to see all the rest of the goodies you'll get with either model you decide to go with.

 

[Brendan Boyle]

Ok thanks for that, this is helpful, will dig a bit further, but model 12 seems like it would be able to be driven from Logic.

 

[Blue Monster 65]

Watch this (also included in the stickies at the top of the page):

 

[SimonPD]

Hey Brendan,
Did you ever find a solution to this?
The setup you described was essentially what I had attempted to do myself a few years ago using a
Tascam DP-24SD.
I tried (without success) to drive Logic by striping a timecode on one channel of the Tascam
then used a Pilip Rees TS1 (really old piece of kit) to convert this channel of analogue code into MIDI
timecode that Logic could understand.
I could never get it to work.
After a couple of months I gave up trying but the consensus gleaned from various conversatons online
was that Logic will not function as a slave.
With the release of the Tascam 2400 it appears that situation may now have changed. Although I've
not test driven the desk it seems it is possible to configure the 2400's transport control to run Logic.
There is a USB connection so in theory it should also be possible to return Logic's drum performance
and samples back to the 2400 faders, which would be wonderful.
Evidently it should also be possible to record synced audio on either the 2400's SD card facility, or within
Logic, opening up an entire world of creative possibility.
It's about 6 years too late for me with the production I was working on, however, if the 2400 can achieve
all of this it would be the dream setup for me going forward.
Cheers,
S

 

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Brendan hasn't been seen since May 29, 2022.

 

[SimonPD]

Yup. I posted on the off chance he might still have email alerts enabled.

Oh well - I've been looking for an excuse to purchase a 2400 lol.

 

[Max Relic]

Short answer: the Model 2400 is a bigger version of the Model 12 with the same limited DAW interwork capability. It can't be slave synced to nothing, it only provides transport controls so in order to make a hybrid session (i.e. Model xxxx + DAW) you have to choose a DAW that can be slaved to external MIDI clock like Ableton and similar.
Model 12 is master only, Logic Pro X is master only so no way out.
What I would do is bouncing the full Logic Drummer (which I like as a creative tool) track to a wav file, import it into a Ableton session and sync it to the Model MIDI clock.