waedi wrote:When you say you want to get rid of the Babyface does that mean you are the owner of all that stuff in the drawing ?
You have a MacBookPro and a UFX+ ?.
I don’t have any RME components yet but I’m looking at them as a solution, hence this post. I do have everything else.
waedi wrote:Get rid of the PC and use the Babyface as a mobile solution.
The Macbook pro is a work supplied machine used for software development, conferencing and Spotify only. I would have used just a simple DAC to get the audio out but I need to get that Microphone input in there for conference calls so either I use a crummy 3.5mm mic/headphone adapter or get a USB interface for it too.
waedi wrote:All your stuff can be connected to the UFX+, no problem.
I think I would have to use the Macbook pro’s 3.5mm port if I only used the UFX+ right? I don’t see another way of getting the microphone input into the Macbook from the UFX+ and the audio signal out of the Macbook into the UFX+.
hselters wrote:Two computers cannot use the interface at the same time.
OK that’s what I suspected, thanks for confirming. It would be nice if one could act as a network remote or something but I guess that’s where the ARC comes in. I’ll have to look into this iPad remote option a bit more.
hselters wrote:If you do not need them at the same time, you could use a USB switcher
That crossed my mind but switches as I’m sure you’ve experienced have an extremely wide variety of quality and compatibility. It’s the type of point of failure I’d rather avoid but it would be a large cost savings. Hmm….
I wonder how the UFX+ would respond being hot switched between computers.
hselters wrote:Also a UCX would do just fine.
I’ll try a diagram with the UCX at the centre. It should be all I need and it would be a nice cost savings. I don’t like that it hasn’t been updated to USB3/Thunderbolt though.
hselters wrote:Also you might not need that headphone amp, the headphone outs on the RME are quite good and powerful enough to drive any Sennheiser HD6XX.
That’s good to hear! I left it in the diagram to show that I wanted that kind of flexibility. Maybe in the future I’ll splurge on ADI-2 Pro FS R Black Edition!
hselters wrote:Maybe get a ARC USB for convenience in volume control...
100%
ramses wrote:I think with a MADI setup something like this is possible, but would be more expensive due to additional MADI components.
You could create a MADI ring of e.g.
+---UFX+ --- Preamp/Converter --- MADIface Pro ---+
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Then UFX+ and MADIface Pro could access the 64 MADI channels at the same time and route audio to the channels as required. UFX+ and MADIface Pro were only examples, could also be two MADIface Pro or even in combination with MADIface USB. As each MADI device can be mapped to the MADI bus and the recording interfaces can also route their audio to the BUS.
It should even be possible to connect UFX+ and MADIface Pro alone with each other by MADI ...
Then you have a lot of channels to exchange audio through the two devices.
I didn’t know much about MADI so I had to read up on it a bit and it’s blowing my mind.
The possibility of using the UFX+ on my PC and a MADIface on the Macbook and being able to share all those channels between them is overkill but very appealing nonetheless!
You also illuminated something I poorly understood regarding the UFX+ and Babyface Pro FS ability to use ADAT to share channels between devices. If I do get the UFX+ and Babyface Pro FS I could simplify the diagram by just using the ADAT IOs between devices correct? That would allow me to send the Macbook pro computer audio as a channel to the UFX+ and receive the microphone signal at the Macbook all via ADAT.
I wonder how the latency would be with that setup.
Thanks for all the help so far guys.