I understand your frustration. It sucks big time when things don’t work right. That said, I used my BFPFS on an M2 laptop and it worked flawlessly. It was just to take acoustic measurements of a room and not full-on daily use but I thought I’d throw my experience in here.

Not sure what you mean. I've have this drivers installed - https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=35957

And still have sound glitches and stuttering. And I don't want to try/use any previous kext drivers. And no new drivers were released from last September. September!!!

Not true, driver v4.08 (2) dates from 2023-05-12! Would be good to inform yourself first before blaming the company.

I'm sorry, but I also have to vent my frustration here. My UAD Apollo Twin X died, so I bought a Babyface Pro FS, because I used to have an OG Babyface Pro and the drivers were always rock solid. But I will probably sell this one, since I can't get it to work without the constant stuttering.

I know Mac OS has been a pain in the ass in recent years, but, for comparison, I have never had any issues with latency for the UAD device (also running on Ventura, M1 Mac).

There shouldn't be any stuttering for regular listening to music on Spotify using an external audio interface.

When making music in Ableton, the stuttering starts as soon as the load gets moderately high. It's incredibly frustrating when you are trying to be creative.

I've tried the Kernel Ext drivers as well as the new DriverKit drivers. The new DriverKit driver is, if anything, worse than the Kernel one. I don't know if there is anything I can do except wait for a new version of the drivers to come out...

Since when this is USB issue? Isn't it's purely new Apple permissions policy, DriverKit etc? Also, Thunderbolt is basically USB Type-C.

Been listening music few hours, got 3-4 stutters. Need to test it with DAW, but it seems like it's better than before. Before I had stutters, like, every minute. Hopefully it will be improved soon even more.

Questiion..the fut usb flash tool installs 205 for babyface pro serial (...)
But i do own a babyface pro fs, which acccording to your read me gets a dirfferent version number, 320...
What shall i make of this? Is there an installation error?
thanks

The readme says:
Babyface Pro / Pro FS: 205 / 320
so it's indeed a bit misleading also in my opinion.
The information for other interfaces is much clearer, for example
Fireface 802 Hw Rev. A: USB 20, DSP 9, FW 9, Class Compliant 12
Fireface 802 Hw Rev. E: USB 112, FW 101, CC 101, DSP 9
Fireface 802 FS: USB 221, CC 212, DSP 27

Weird chain of thought, it's much easier to switch audio card, for every normal person lol. It's RME drivers problem, not platform.

Yeah, but there's no Apple alternative. Unless you can live with Windows. I can't. For development I can live with Linux. But not for multimedia, and regular day usage. And there's plenty of RME alternatives on other hand. Not sure why bother changing whole platform, if you can change audio card / drivers vendor.

Generally I would speak the same. In own experience I only can compare to gear in lower quality and price range tough (M-A…o). The units I owned years ago had a stunningly good audio quality, but beside that there were several issues I never faced again after switching to RME. For example no updated drivers after approx. five years only. On the other hand my Fireface 400, bought in 2009, easily made the switch from PowerPC to Intel and now to M1 (on Thunderbolt port). Not to speak about the brilliant audio quality which still can compete to newest units today.

Let's just thank they not banning all of us, and pretend we don't exist hahahha

No, it's same same. Most of the power consumption is the analog stuff and AD/DA, not the FPGA.

Hello people, am thinking on getting a sp404 but i wanna know if my babyface pro fs has all the ports required to connect the 404. ive watched a couple of videos but it seems like some people "sacrifice" their Analog1/2 output ports which leave them without ports for their monitors. Should i get another interface with more I/O and connect it through ADAT or how can i get the sp404 connected to my babyface without buying another gear and without loosing ports for my monitors. Thanks in advance!

Why does I always have problems to uninstall my RME babyface drivers? They're still left in the uninstall programs list. And when I try to uninstall it i get a Error fireface_usb.inf is not found. This happens more than half the time I uninstall RME drivers and it's been like this for years. Why don't the ones writing the drivers fix this bug?

I need the 1.2.22.0 drivers but I can't find them in the RME downloads page.

If you want to uninstall these remaining contents, you can remove mannually in your Registry Editor on Windows. After unstalling the driver, go to your Registry Editor by typing in "Regedit" in the "Run" dialogue box. Then, navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and delete the "RME" item you find there. That should remove all remnant entries and you can install your old driver files if you still have them.

But, do it with care, as you don't want to remove the wrong entry. I seldom go to the Registry Editor, I just let it be.

Hope this helps!

I see. OK, thanks for letting me know!

What has the Babyface to do ? Forwarding analog audio from analog input to analog output ?
connect your speakers to the bluetooth receiver and you have the music.
Meaning of Babyface in CC-mode is USB connection to an iPad or computer where no driver is installed.

Without USB connection the Babyface is in standalone-mode.
See page 90 in the user manual for routing the inputs to the output :

The input signals can be routed/mixed to the outputs by activating the unit’s Mix mode:
 Use OUT to select the desired output
 Use IN to select the input with the desired signal source
 Push MIX. The input LEDs start to flash.
 Use SELECT to choose between left, right or both input channels  Turn the big knob to set the actual monitoring/routing level
 Continue with all inputs and outputs as you wish

My new Babyface does not show "FS" in the USB settings?
Hi, i upgraded from the babyface pro to the FS-Version.
I am irritated that it does not show up as a explicit "FS" Version Is this normal or did I miss something?

if your unit has a hardware switch on its bottom side to change the line level and is labelled as FS, all is good…

I started to get serious problems with my input levels on Analog in 1 and 2..is this a driver issue or dudden not beein used death, and therefore hardware damage? Are ther any new betas around? iv installen 4.082 on an M1 macbook air, running Ventura 13.4

The 3.5mm jack on my Babyface Pro FS is bad contact.
I cleaned it but did not improve it.

Now I live in Japan and purchased the product as a private import, so it's difficult to send it back to Germany for repair.

Is there a replacement part available somewhere? Or is there a any better way?

No way to damage anything.

My BFPro fs has a thread on the bottom to attach to a standard 5/8" mic stand.  Look at yours again!

Yes there is a threaded port but it is smaller than 5/8”, maybe 5/16”. Just curious if anyone else has mounted the BFP and what hardware they used.