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mosc
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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject:
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In another topic a question was raised about the need for using external cables to do output to input loop back with RME audio interfaces.
I'm starting a new topic here because it may be of more general interest.
durwood - re using cables for loopback wrote: |
... I thought someone on DIYAudio.com had mentioned RME had internal routing?? Can you link spdif out with spdif in without the cable? Seems like conflicting information and I think how you are routing your signal is how you have to do it with that card. |
You can in fact route the SPDIF output back to the SPDIF input with RME devices - at least with the RME Fireface interfaces and some of the PCI cards as well.
On the RME mixer application, you just control-leftClick on the routing buttons at the bottom of the output fader. They call this loop back in the manual. You can only loop back an output to its corresponding input. SPDIF out may only route back to SPDIF in, for example.
A great thing is you can route to and from outputs and inputs that may not exist in hardware. If you enable ADAT, and you don't have an ADAT device, the RME interface provide another 8 IOs that call all be used as loopback channels. All mixing is done on the RME's DSP, so there is virtually no load on the host CPU.
Asside: I bought my RME Fireface 400 because I wanted excellent audio quality and very high reliability. I'm not at all disappointed, but when I got mine and discovered the fantastic mixing and routing software that comes with it, I was very pleased. The software alone is well worth the cost. The hardware is free, IMHO. _________________ --Howard
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blue hell
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:
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Yeah this was brought up in the chat yesterday, I checked it for my multiface II unfortunately that one cant rout back to it's inputs - that is control left click does nothing in the matrix screen for me. _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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blue hell
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:
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that does it! thanks! _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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mosc
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject:
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Now, you just got something worth a lot you didn't know you had.
_________________ --Howard
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blue hell
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject:
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I pulled four cables out, made 8 new virtual ones, and I understand less and less what I'm doing ... but preset 8 will set things ok for radio stuff _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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shitso
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject:
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Thank you mosc,
the cable is out, the loopback works and i love my fireface!
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mosc
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:
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shitso wrote: | Thank you mosc,
the cable is out, the loopback works and i love my fireface!
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Great to hear. I'm very glad to help.
Blue Hell: It really is as confusing as it is powerful. I once thought it was a ridiculous user interface, but the more I got to understand it, the more sense it makes.
Now, RME users, here's another tip. Download the program called DIGICheck. Try the vectorscope. It makes understandinging stereo much easier. Once you get the hang of it you'll find it indespensible for use with your ambiophonicDSP. It's another treasure you may not have known you have. It only works with RME interfaces, unfortunately.
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_support_techinfo.php?page=content/support/en_support_techinfo_digicheck _________________ --Howard
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Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Ireland
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