Thanks for the fast reply!

yeah, my main concern is that there will be no audible difference in sound quality and to be honest i am expecting
to hear quite a big difference, so maybe dissapointment is inevitable...

about the AIO, basically i am very happy with the card but i am experiencing more and more issues with noise/interference.
I have already loked up every thread about noise with the AIO but i could never get rid of it.

I have also owned two 9632 cards before and both had the same issues.

The first noise issue is within the built in headphone out.
When a headphone is connected i hear some weird electronical emmissions like beeping, buzz and the infamous mouse movement.

I kind of got this sorted out by moving the card to another PCIe slot.
Funnily, most people advice to move the card further away from the CPU and GPU but in my case the card was already mounted in the last PCIe slot so i had no other chance than moving the card closer to the GPU.

The noise decreased but it's still there. Hoewever, i do not use the headphone out so this is no big deal for me!

The BIG problem here is a constant hum in the left analog input chanel.
It appears and disappears randomly but mostly surprises me when i rarely find some time to record some music,
which is extremely demotivating.

I think the source of the problem is the breakout cable as the hum appears randomly, it might be a lose connection.
This is also my fourth breakout cable, these things are really of very poor quality. I do not move my PC around at all
but the cables seem to break just over time. I am not willing to spend more money on another breakout cable that's
why i am looking for a solution that does not require a breakout cable.

the headphone out noise seems to be quite common but i could not find any case where people
had noise problems on the inputs!

The analog out is dead silent for instance, if i connect the active speakers directly to the AIO,
turn all the faders up running the speakers at 100%, all i can hear is a slight whoosh.

I would not say that it is a problem with the PC or some of the components as the hum problem is not constant.
It appears and disappears randomly, sometimes it lasts only one day, sometimes it won't go away for weeks.

Could it be a problem with the card itself?

I have also experiencing some random latency issues where i could not work with 256 samples in an empty project wthout having audio dropouts. Usually the card can handle 64 or even 32 samples on a simple recording project without any problems.

I also had TotalMix FX and the HAmmerfall Software freeze up a few times...

Hello FIXXXER,

One thing to keep in mind about the ADI-2 Pro is that it is only a 2 in / 2 out interface (when it comes to balanced analog connections).

Therefore, the ADI-2 Pro will work for you as long as don't need the outputs of the ADI-2 Pro for anything other than your monitors (in other words, you can't pass an analog signal to your preamp or Axe FX).

Another important thing is that the ADI-2 Pro does not come with RME's Totalmix FX, so all signal flow / monitoring setup must take place using the ADI-2 Pro's front panel screen (which can be cumbersome).

On the plus side, the ADI-2 Pro is using RME's highest end converters / electronics (much better than the converters in RME's Babyface Pro or UFX+), which multiple people on GearSlutz have commented has helped the ADI-2 Pro beat converters from Lynx, Prism, UAD, Crane Song, Mytek, etc.

So to sum it up, the ADI-2 Pro is a great interface, but limited on the outputs / software control side of things.

Nelson

Might be as silly as a little oxidation on the pins of the AIO where you connect your breakout. Maybe inserting a few times or a little contact spray.
BTW with a multimeter you can also test the breakout cable.
And if you are good with a soldering iron you can make your own which in turn you can also repair.

The latency issue is probably a PC issue and not a card or driver issue so there the ADI might not help.
And for sound quality this is an interface for very high end listening and needs everything before and behind it, including room treatment to be the same to make any difference.

Hello FIXXXER,

Given that there are only two analog outs (for a single pair of monitors), I don't believe there is a monitor controller on the ADI-2 Pro.

Nelson

Mute and Speaker B (aka switch between 1/2 and 3/4) is on the list, Mono already exists.

@nelson_a
I do not need any extra options, i just need to be able to control the main out seperately.

@ramses
Monitor controller might be the wrong term, i do not need functions like dim, mute or a TB
i just need to control the main out seperately, this seems to work with teh ADI-2 PRO.

@MC
Mono would be the only function i'd miss, good to know it's there!

Now i have to find out how to put the unit into a 19' rack. The RM19-X seems to fit but
ive seen people complaining about the screws not being long enough.
Has this issue ben fixed yet?

i've read some reviews and most of them complained about the screws being too short

https://www.thomann.de/de/rme_rackmount … #bewertung

I'll get my ADI-2 PRO+RM19-X tomorrow and i hope that the screws will fit!

In general, i have to admit, having such am extremely nice looking device as the ADI-2 PRO
i wish the rackmounts would fit that look.

It may be a matter of taste and i know the RM19-X is surely not produced in extrem big quantities i wish that there was
somethng a bit better looking, something like the rack extension ears on the UFX+ for example.

These look solid, rigid and clean, in this case i would prefer paying more having something that looks better and fits the unit.

It's just an idea, i'm sure most people do not care but i am very picky when it comes to design and aestethics and the
RM19-X semms not like a a winner here.

Maybe you can offer a nicer looking and more solid rackmount kit in the future!

Thomann.de is a good website for buy product about sound my friends

So you see the screws are fitting now

> The only downside is that it seems not possible to monitor the analog out directly.

The analog output is the monitoring output... What do you mean exactly?

Are you aware that you can change the Source of the PH3/4 output to any input?

I think you use the word monitoring when you need to say 'mixing'. The ADI-2 Pro will not have any kind of mixing engine. Therefore you can monitor only one input at a time for out 1/2 and one freely selectable one from PH 3/4. As you correctly wrote mixing (to monitor more than one source simultaneously) is supposed to be done in the DAW.

With Totalmix everything in that regards is possible. Any to any routing and you can create headphone mixes as you like.

But what if you try to work differently and monitor only the analog output.

Isnt it possible, that you create in the DAW a mix, that sends
- playback channels and
- your guitar playing
to control room .. be it Phones or Analog Out

With the low RTT / Latency it might be possible for you, to play still accurately on the notes.
But you need to try.
Eventually disable Cubase ASIOguard that might introduce additional latency.

that's actually how i do it right now, it does work and the latency is extremely low!
The workflow is very slow though as i always have to activate the software monitoring
for every track when recording, and deactivate it when i want to listen to what i have recorded.

I am using a hardware guitar amp simulator  but i have to record it the same way like i am using a VST guitar amp
and that's a bit frustating.

@MC
that's not the actual problem, i can indeed listen to youtube and my guitar simultaneously even with the ASIO
driver selected  but i can only do this within cubase. I am looking for a solution without having to start up Cubase but it looks like it's really not possible with the ADI-2 PRO.

The Background on this:

I am using an Fractal Audio AXE FX II amp modeller, which does calculate all the sounds within the hardware unit
with minimal latency. Now i have to use software monitoring to be able to hear what's coming out of the AXE FX II and this kind of renders the unit useless. In this case i could use Software amp simulation VST'S instead, it would make no difference
when it comes to the workflow. The main advantage of the AXE FX II is that the sound is already processed and does not to be processed within the DAW.

It had been said in an earlier thread that also the design in terms of heat dissipation has been optimized.
So simply regard it as good that the heat will be distributed to the outside.

If you have a feeling that it gets a little bit too warm for your taste, then get a rack with 1 rack unit more and leave a little more space between all of the devices and to the top of the case. I am doing the same.

UFX+ and XTC also produce more heat compared to i.e. UFX.

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I don't get it. Why you not just leave one space between the ADI-2 Pro and the others, so they stay together like they are now? Best of both worlds...

While I would do it like that it is not mandatory to have that space between them.

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