I dont care about portability and i also need at least 8 outputs for a 5. I would like to upgrade my multiface ii with more analog inout channels, so i m wondering what best options would be. To activate class compliant mode, hold both the bottom buttons select and dim as you plug in the usb cable. Kein sound mit rme hammerfall hdsp multiface linux mint olivia. Based on rmes awardwinning hammerfall technology and equipped with the latest circuit designs of the fireface 800, the multiface ii offers adat optical io, spdif io, midi io, word clock io and a separate hipower monitor output. I started developing software for linux about six or seven years ago but id been actively involved in audio software development at a professional level on other platforms for far longer. Of course, there is still the rme octopreamps, but they are a bit out of my pricerange budget is 500 bucks upper end, and i need 8in 8out due to incorporating of ouboard gear so i thought why not get a sh multiface ii.
Latest 192 khz ad and daconverters with more than 110 db signal to noise ratio, all inputs and outputs simultaneously operational, easytoinstall optional hiquality analog expansion boards, the famous totalmix fx, a newly developed sensational clock section with maximum jitter suppression of external clock signals all this combines into a. If you are looking for a sample of what this unit can do, refer to the live kraftwerk album which was recorded with 4 multiface 2 units through the laptop bus cards. After hours and weekends, please leave a message at the number or send an email with the relevant information. It was limited to 128k machines and would not work on dumps bigger than 64k. I tried lsof to see whos using the card and got this. There is a decent video editor for linux called main actor, so a decent, maybe even commercial, app might exist.
Great driver support, stable operation and multitude of mixing and measurement software adds to the multiface ii being an excellent recording solution. For example mixing your guitar and vocals to headphones has never been easier. Get the best deals on rme audiomidi interfaces when you shop the largest online selection at. Therefore the multiface ii will only work with a hdsp pci card revision 1. Unfortunately, alsa has no way of informing applications that the number of. The problem is that i use the same laptop with a digiface for my 24 track field system. Reboot and windows does not see the new audio device. The rme multiface is an external rack mounted pro audio interface with a ton of channels and. As most games of the era did not have a save game feature, the multiface allowed players to save their position by saving a loadable snapshot of the. Even if pulseaudio is killed and all sound applications are closed.
Independent alsa and linux audio support site alsa opensrc org. Fireface ucx rme audio interfaces format converters. Rmes hammerfall hdsp sound card is a powerful, professionallevel sound card used in sound studios worldwide. Get the best deals on rme when you shop the largest online selection at. But i have the same install problems everytime i set up a new distro with hdsploader not working, etc sometimes it helped compiling the new alsafirmware from source on ubuntu but as mhartzel suggests this could be as well a hardware problem in your case. Rme audio interfaces read our audio interfaces buying guide. Your average consumer sound card, for instance, a sound blaster live. I bought it because of the thunderbolt capability and also because my previous unit was an rme multiface ii. The rear panel of the multiface ii has eight analog inputs and outputs, the power socket only necessary with cardbusexpresscard operation, word clock input and output, and both digital inputs and outputs adat and spdif. In the year 2001, rme started a revolution in mobile audio recording. Oct 23, 2003 rmes hammerfall hdsp sound card is a powerful, professionallevel sound card used in sound studios worldwide.
Analog, adat, aes, spdif, and usb 2 are all standard on the rme fireface ufx ii. Pressing a red button on the multiface activated it. Downloads rme audio interfaces format converters preamps. Sep 29, 2018 that usbstreamer is very interesting, you can interface any adat device to linux with it. It continues rme s long tradition of designing compact highend interfaces, packing into a halfrack size unit what usually would be spread out over two or three 19 inch panels.
Utisa as a mobile sound card, just used to drive the sequencers and monitoring. However, the multiface ii works fantastically under alsajack and uses the sndhdsp driver same as hdsp 9652. I started developing software for linux about six or seven years. Linux driver for the digital audio cards of the digi and hammerfall series are different drivers for linux and similar os available. Dsp system simply the professional multitrack recording system. Rme downloads tools and software, additonal programs and utilities, desktop wallpapers and demos. Sometimes the card didnt even show up in the lscpi output. Power on the pc, winxp detects new hardware, installs driver, asks for reboot.
The multiface offers eight channels of analog io and digital spdif, as well as adat in and. Home rme audio interfaces format converters preamps. While the multiface causes a load of about 9 watts to the pci card, the multiface ii will cause a load of about 12 watts. Upgrade to pcie without replacing your rme multiface ii, multiface, digiface, or rpm dj interface. Rme hdsp multiface driver and firmware download and update. Rme multiface and multiface ii both include adat io, so you can expand analog io and add microphone preamplifiers with something like the focusrite clarett octopre midlevel or the cheap behringer ada8200 entrylevel. Linux driver for fireface 400 page 1 linux rme user. Open a teminal and copypaste the command below into a terminal and youll get a description of the alsatoolsgui software which will include. The fireface ucx is a highly integrated pro audio solution in an ultracompact format for studio and live recordings. Most of the rme product family classics are still supported by current driver updates. I get no xruns buffer underruns with half a dozen tracks, soft synths, all while compiling a program obviously pegging the cpu %100using the realtime kernel patches you can have a true preempted realtime os.
Rme audio professional live, studio, recording and broadcast solutions. I wonder if it really is possible that the old pci linux driver will work just the same. Fruher hatte ich meist linux hauptsachlich suse am laufen bis ca. Rme hdspe expresscard for multiface, multiface ii, digiface. At first, it was merely finicky, plug everything in, maybe it works, if youre lucky run. As shown in figure 2, the various clock sources go into the autosync system. Totalmix settings of hdsp 9632 and hdsp 9652 are automatically reloaded after sleep mode. Sep 29, 2018 i run a multiface ii on arch for almost a decade with not one single dropout.
The multiface ii has a higher power consumption as the original multiface. Get the best deals on rme pro audio equipment when you shop the largest online selection at. I bought an rme multiface ii and hdspe card the expresscard host interface a few months ago and so far its been a massive pain to deal with. Our telephone support hours are 10 am to 6 pm eastern time, monday through friday. Yes, i chose that combination because my home studio system uses an rme multiface ii which includes adat io, so the behringer can be used to extend it from 8 to 16 inputs. Take a look at the alternatively available rme audio product archive. The primary function of the device was to dump the computers memory to external storage. On top there are 8 analog inputs and outputs, balanced and 24bit96khz. Alsa opensrc org independent alsa and linux audio support site. Has anyone any experiences or comments on the rme babyface interface on linux, in particular, can i use hdspmixer to control the monitor mix as i currently am able to with my multiface ii.
Rme hdsp multiface driver and firmware download and update for windows and mac os. I did research on internet forums, some people claim it worked with converters from thunderbo. Downloads, latest and older drivers, product manuals, tools, desktop wallpapers and demos. Problem 2 seems to be that vlc is no longer built with oss support. Recommendation upgrade multiface ii with 8 io s how do. Weve recorded a number of tracks using the multiface and. Hdsp pci card multiface, multiface ii, digiface hammerfall dsp 9632. So when i connect the multiface to the pcmcia interface card, my laptop just sees it as the previously installed rme interface and the multiface just sits there with the red host error led.
Can also be used as optical spdif input and output, if set up accord ingly in the settings dialog. In autosync mode, a request for a different sample rate than the input one caused a change to master mode. Antimultiface was a public domain program for the amstrad cpc which allowed the restoring of saved memory dumps without the need for a multiface to be present. Rme used to be linux friendly, so at that time a lot of audio oriented liunx folks used these interfaces. Get the guaranteed best price on audio interfaces like the rme multiface ii at musicians friend. And at that price you wont feel bad if, say, you decide in a year that you need a 16channel interface. I would like to have as much as lower latency and stability as possible,since i m working with a lot of virtual instruments. I just bought a used multiface for use in the field with my laptop. The rme multiface is an external rack mounted pro audio interface with a ton of channels and connectors 18 output channels, running up to 24bit 96khz.
Apr 05, 2014 multiface will not sync up, tried on two machines. Rme audio hammerfall multiface ii user manual pdf download. You are looking for information or drivers for no longer available devices and cant find the right driver in the upper selection. View and download rme audio dsp system multiface user manual online. Hiya, i got the recently released rme babyface pro and im reporting that it works well with linux in class compliant mode. I am trying to get it work on my mac but it seems impossible. Oct 01, 2012 the rme fireface ucx is a professional interface with 18 io channel 8 analog, 2 mic preamps, midi, spdif and adat. It seems an attractive idea to leave windows and do the linux shuffle, but so far linux only looks like a nice alternative for any old office pc when ms stops supporting xp. Multiface ii ne fonctionnant pas hwdep ioctl error on card hw. Avlinux, puredyne that i am sure of drivers are part of the default installation so the multiface works under linux out of the box using the pcie card as in my case. I have heard a lot about rme and their quality this product is a great example of wonderful rme quality. It also works under linux using the alsa project drivers. Rme babyface pro usb audio interface linuxmusicians.
Rme digiface and multiface connected via adat possible. View and download rme audio hammerfall multiface ii user manual online. Hello, i m about to purchase a new audio inteface for my home studio. The multiface ii is a flexible and easily expandable recording interface from rme. Sound card and remote quality converters have motivated my choice and also the opportunity to have a good price. Babyface pro ships with rmes totalmix fx, available for windows and mac os x. In addition, linux drivers are under development for the hammerfall dsp system and may be available later this year.
This amazingly versatile software allows you to use babyface pro in any situation. I m researching into having a adat adda converter, but all posts and blogs i find are at least 10 years old do you have a recommendation for a good adda converter. Rme hammerfall ii dsp multi face ii external effects how to. The hdsp pci cards built until recently are not designed for. Dsp system multiface recording equipment pdf manual download. Rme audio dsp system multiface user manual pdf download. Hey guys, i have a mac from 2015 with thunderbolt connection and rme hammerfall multiface dsp card. Installed pci card, connected firewire to multiface.
Buy rme ntcbus external power supply for babyface multiface multiface ii digiface hdsp rpm adi2 adi4 dd quadmic octamic octamic d. Rme digifacemultiface install problem sawstudio user. I digged through the manual if it might be possible to use this module as plain adcdac. Supports pci card, cardbus, digiface, multiface and hdsp 9652, version 2. At first time installation of multiface digiface rpm a default routing configuration is loaded into the mixer. I run a multiface ii on arch for almost a decade with not one single dropout.
Multichannel audio interface for linux linux ardour. Admitted, it is over 10 years old, but still offers competitive fine pro sound quality. News, welcome to rme, our news, driver news, product news. Further, with support for usb 2 connectivity, the new rme fireface ufx ii can integrate with rme s optional arc usb remote controller. Oct 23, 2003 rme s hammerfall hdsp sound card is a powerful, professionallevel sound card used in sound studios worldwide. The multiface was a hardware peripheral released by romantic robot for several 1980s home computers. Rme s hammerfall hdsp sound card is a powerful, professionallevel sound card used in sound studios worldwide. Please note, rme will not deliver phone or email support for 3rd party drivers. Rme users can also receive support at the rme user forum. Rme hdsp multiface driver and firmware for windows and mac os. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. Rme octamic ii 8 channel mic preamp 192 khz 24 bit ad pre amp pro interface demo.