Situation....  integrating a new Tascam DM4800 to an existing recording suite consisting of multiple Tascam machines of various vintages.  I'm talking about DA45s, and two or three different CD recorders, and the new DVD recorder.

The goal here is to enable the transport controls of the new console to control all of the machines all at once.  Each of the machines seems to work on a different I/O connector. 

Anyone know how to do this?

  Bill

Jim,

The purpose is the live recording and disemination of the recording.  That is why there are 9 decks using three different types of media... to accomodate radio, archiving, and the other purposes to which the recordings are used.  There is no multitrack component, these are all stereo recordings.

No such 'hub-thingy' exists that I know of, but I'm betting that it ain't such a big deal to build a one-off to have the MMC and other control protocols sending out the right messages on the right connectors.  Obviously the bard is capable of sending out a master control signal.  The trick is going to be how to handle the breakouts.  When I built my first control system to handle a rack of cassette decks I imagined all sorts of things,. when it turned otu to be simply building a ribbon cable with a pile of DIN plugs on one end and the master plug on the other.  MMC, RS232, RS422... is interfacing them such a big deal?  I mean, SPDIF and AES/EBU are seriously different in a lot of respects, but you can often just plug them togather with the right cable ends and have a system that works.  I don't know about serial communications, but how different are MIDI, RS-232 and 422 for this purpose?

  Bill