michele wrote:Thanks for jumping in. I'd be tracking through the DAW using Logic's low latency mode, though, but I am not sure if the ADI-2 Pro roundtrip latency would be close to 2/3ms which I find to be still usable by the singer.
The UCX/Babyface Pro would be an easier alternative, but I'd need to add an external dac connected via adat + headphone amp so to have an high-quality check for mixing/mastering.
Frankly, I don't understand why you estimate 2-3ms RTL for vocal recording. You listen to the backing track in the headphones connected to the RME recording interface and sing along with it. Then you only have to deal with the much lower latency due to the A/D conversion at the microphone input. With a UFX+ at 44.1 kHz this is just 0.28ms.
And if I am not mistaken, then the DAW in combination with the driver performs a latency compensation for it, knowing the RTL.
A low RTL between recording interface and computer (AD/DA conversion and back/forward via USB/*) is mostly only important when you record/play using virtual instruments (VSTi). And even then RTL up to about 12ms are still manageable (I know this from own experience having played over a virtual guitar amp). With an RME UFX+ this corresponds to ASIO buffersize settings of 32 - 128 which gives you a nice range of possibilities to adjust the buffersize according to project size and still having the RTL below 10ms (at least with Windows ASIO drivers).
Here is an overview of the RTL of different solutions I had in use, from a blog article of mine about the UFX+. By this you can see what you can expect from it. Pls ignore the RTLs of the other ADAT/MADI based examples in this screenshot, in your case now not applicable:
As KaiS already noted you have clear advantages if you would first use a RME recording interface with TotalMix FX routing. Such a solution you can always add now or later an ADI-2 DAC or even better an ADI-2 Pro FS R BE to enjoy the device specific features.
Here is a blog article of mine describing the combination of recording interface and ADI-2 Pro, its very easy to be setup and used this way (but you can add this at any time later!): https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … our-Setup/
Here is a sticky that gives you an overview of the main differences between ADI-2 Pro and ADI-2 DAC as a quick introduction to this topic, surely of help if you are new to the devices:
https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 06#p165706
I've been using UFX and UFX+ for over 6 years now and can tell you from my own experience that this really is the best solution. With this you can also get along without ADI-2 Pro FS for the time being, in order to spread the costs over time.
Here is an Excel overview from me with information from various sources (manual, forum, ..), with which you can get a fairly quick and detailed overview of the various devices:
Blog article: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … B-MADIfac/
Direct link to the Excel: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/index.ph … 0-08-xlsx/
For a UFX+ would speak in particular that you would then have all conceivable possibilities and freedoms of the connection to the PC. Since you use a Mac, the Thunderbolt interface will certainly be of interest now or later. But you can also connect with USB3 and even USB2 is possible, but then only as a 30-channel interface without the additional MADI channels.
And .. it has all the nice features that you can think of ....
If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.
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