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User's Guide Babyface Portable USB Audio at its best! USB 2.0 Digital I/O System 22 Channels Analog / ADAT / SPDIF Interfa

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User's Guide Babyface © RME11 User's Guide Babyface Installation and Operation – Windows

12 User's Guide Babyface © RME 6. Hardware Installation Connect computer and Babyface with the supplied USB cable. Turn on the computer. Th

User's Guide Babyface © RME13 7.2 Driver Update When facing problems with the automatic driver update, the user-driven way of driver installa-

14 User's Guide Babyface © RME 8. Configuring the Babyface 8.1 Settings Dialog - General Configuration of the Babyface is done via its own

User's Guide Babyface © RME15 Buffer Size The setting Buffer Size determines the latency between incoming and outgoing ASIO and WDM data, as we

16 User's Guide Babyface © RME 8.2 Settings Dialog - Pitch Usually soundcards and audio interfaces generate their internal clock (master mo

User's Guide Babyface © RME17 9. Operation and Usage 9.1 Playback In the audio application being used, Babyface must be selected as output de

18 User's Guide Babyface © RME 9.2 DVD-Playback (AC-3/DTS) AC-3 / DTS When using popular DVD software players like WinDVD and PowerDVD, the

User's Guide Babyface © RME19 9.3 Notes on WDM The driver offers one WDM streaming device per stereo pair, like Analog 3+4 (Babyface). WDM Str

2 User's Guide Babyface © RME General 1 Introduction ...6 2 Package Content

20 User's Guide Babyface © RME 9.4 Channel Count under WDM The Babyface’s ADAT optical interface offers sample rates of up to 192 kHz using

User's Guide Babyface © RME21 9.6 Analog Recording For recordings via the analog inputs the corresponding record device has to be chosen (Bab

22 User's Guide Babyface © RME 9.8 Digital Connections ADAT The ADAT optical input of the Babyface is fully compatible with all ADAT optica

User's Guide Babyface © RME23 9.9 Clock Modes - Synchronization In the digital world, all devices must be either Master (clock source) or Slav

24 User's Guide Babyface © RME 10. Operation under ASIO 10.1 General Start the ASIO software and select ASIO Fireface USB as the audio I/O

User's Guide Babyface © RME25 10.3 Known Problems If a computer does not provide sufficient CPU-power and/or sufficient USB-bus transfer rates

26 User's Guide Babyface © RME 12. DIGICheck Windows The DIGICheck software is a unique utility developed for testing, measuring and analys

User's Guide Babyface © RME27 13. Hotline – Troubleshooting The newest information can always be found on our website www.rme-audio.com, secti

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User's Guide Babyface © RME29 User's Guide Babyface Installation and Operation – Mac OS X

User's Guide Babyface © RME3 17 Mac OS X FAQ 17.1 Round about Driver Installation ... 34 17.2 MIDI doesn't w

30 User's Guide Babyface © RME 14. Hardware Installation Connect computer and Babyface with the included USB cable. Mac OS X detects the ne

User's Guide Babyface © RME31 15.3 Firmware Update The Flash Update Tool updates the firmware of the Babyface to the latest version. It requir

32 User's Guide Babyface © RME Options DSP – EQ for Record Switches the 3-band EQ and Low Cut of all input channels into the recording path.

User's Guide Babyface © RME33 16.2 Clock Modes - Synchronization In the digital world, all devices must be either Master (clock source) or Sla

34 User's Guide Babyface © RME 17. Mac OS X FAQ 17.1 Round about Driver Installation The driver with the file suffix zip provided by RME i

User's Guide Babyface © RME35 17.5 Channel Count under Core Audio At a sample rate of 88.2 or 96 kHz, the ADAT optical input and output operat

36 User's Guide Babyface © RME 18. Using more than one Babyface OS X supports the usage of more than one audio device within an audio softw

User's Guide Babyface © RME37 20. Hotline – Troubleshooting The newest information can always be found on our website www.rme-audio.com, secti

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User's Guide Babyface © RME39 User's Guide Babyface TotalMix FX

4 User's Guide Babyface © RME Technical Reference 25 Technical Specifications 25.1 Analog ...

40 User's Guide Babyface © RME 21. Routing and Monitoring 21.1 Overview The Babyface includes a powerful digital real-time mixer, the Baby

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42 User's Guide Babyface © RME 21.2 The User Interface The visual design of the TotalMix mixer is a result of its capability to route hardw

User's Guide Babyface © RME43 21.3 The Channels A single channel can be switched between mono and stereo mode. The mode is set in the channel

44 User's Guide Babyface © RME The lowest field shows the current routing target. A mouse click opens the routing window to select a routing

User's Guide Babyface © RME45 A click on the tool symbol opens the channel’s Settings panel with differing elements. For ex-ample the Option In

46 User's Guide Babyface © RME A click on EQ opens the Equalizer panel. It is available in all input and output channels, and affects all ro

User's Guide Babyface © RME47 Notes on the EQ Presets Copy between channels: The EQ Preset menu of all channels is identical. If an EQ setup i

48 User's Guide Babyface © RME 21.5 The Control Strip The Control Strip on the right side is a fixed element. It combines different functio

User's Guide Babyface © RME49 View Options. This area combines different functions of routing, the level meters and the mi-xer view. Routing

User's Guide Babyface © RME5 User's Guide Babyface General

50 User's Guide Babyface © RME Snapshots. Snapshots include all mixer settings, but no graphical elements like window posi-tions, window siz

User's Guide Babyface © RME51 21.6 Reverb and Echo A click on FX in the View Options / Mixer Setup brings up the Output FX panel. Here all pa-

52 User's Guide Babyface © RME Special Settings for Envelope and Gated Attack. Length of time for the volume increase of the reverb signal.

User's Guide Babyface © RME53 Preset. Settings of the Reverb and the Echo can be stored, loaded, and copied between chan-nels at any time. A cl

54 User's Guide Babyface © RME 21.8 Settings The dialog Settings can be opened via the Options menu or directly via F3. Talkback ¾ Input.

User's Guide Babyface © RME55 21.9 Hotkeys and Usage TotalMix FX has many hotkeys and mouse/hotkey combinations to speed up and simplify the u

56 User's Guide Babyface © RME 21.10 Menu Options Deactivate Screensaver: When active (checked) any activated Windows screensaver will be d

User's Guide Babyface © RME57 22. The Matrix 22.1 Overview The mixer window of TotalMix looks and operates similar to mixing desks, as it is

58 User's Guide Babyface © RME The Matrix not always replaces the mixer view, but it significantly enhances the routing capabili-ties and -

User's Guide Babyface © RME59 23.5 Recording a Submix - Loopback TotalMix includes an internal loopback function, from the Hardware Outputs to

6 User's Guide Babyface © RME 1. Introduction Thank you for choosing the RME Babyface. This unique audio system is capable of transferring

60 User's Guide Babyface © RME Recording a Software's playback In real world application, recording a software's output with anoth

User's Guide Babyface © RME61 24. MIDI Remote Control 24.1 Overview TotalMix can be remote controlled via MIDI. It is compatible to the widel

62 User's Guide Babyface © RME 24.3 Setup Open the Preferences dialog (menu Options or F3). Select the MIDI Input and MIDI Output port wher

User's Guide Babyface © RME63 24.5 MIDI Control The hardware output set up as Main Out can be controlled by the standard Control Change Volume

64 User's Guide Babyface © RME Examples for sending MIDI strings: - Set input 1 to 0 dB: B0 66 68 - Set input 5 to maximum attenuation: B1

User's Guide Babyface © RME65 User's Guide Babyface Technical Reference

66 User's Guide Babyface © RME 25. Technical Specifications 25.1 Analog AD, Microphone/Line 1-2 • Input: XLR, electronically balanced •

User's Guide Babyface © RME67 25.3 Digital • Clocks: Internal, ADAT In, SPDIF In • Low Jitter Design: < 1 ns in PLL mode, all inputs • I

68 User's Guide Babyface © RME 26. Technical Background 26.1 Lock and SyncCheck Digital signals consist of a carrier and the data. If a di

User's Guide Babyface © RME69 26.2 Latency and Monitoring The term Zero Latency Monitoring was introduced by RME in 1998 for the DIGI96 series

User's Guide Babyface © RME7 5. First Usage – Quick Start 5.1 Connectors – Controls – Display The top of the Babyface features a rotary encod

70 User's Guide Babyface © RME Note: Cubase and Nuendo display the latency values signalled from the driver separately for record and playba

User's Guide Babyface © RME71 Especially with notebooks it can happen that all internal devices and all the sockets/ports are connected to the

72 User's Guide Babyface © RME 26.6 Noise Level in DS / QS Mode The outstanding signal to noise ratio of the Babyface's AD-converters

User's Guide Babyface © RME73 27. Diagrams 27.1 Block Diagram Babyface

74 User's Guide Babyface © RME 27.2 Connector Pinouts TRS jack analog instrument input The ¼" TRS jack of the instrument input is wir

User's Guide Babyface © RME75 User's Guide Babyface Miscellaneous

76 User's Guide Babyface © RME 28. Accessories There are several items available for the Babyface: Part Number Description Optical cab

User's Guide Babyface © RME77 30. Appendix RME news, driver updates and further product information are available on our website: http://www.

78 User's Guide Babyface © RME 31. Declaration of Conformity CE This device has been tested and found to comply with the limits of the Euro

8 User's Guide Babyface © RME The short circuit protected, low impedance line outputs do not operate servo balanced! When connecting unbalan

User's Guide Babyface © RME9 5.2 Quick Start After the driver installation (chapter 7 / 15), connect the inputs to the analog signal source. M