forskin wrote:MC wrote:How can there be confusion? Different drivers (PCIe / USB), so it won't work. What prevents you from adding a second RayDAT into your PC?
Else you will have to leave the RayDAT and get a MADI to ADAT based solution. That will get more expensive, though.
Thanks for your kind answer. To be perfectly clear there is confusion because I'm me and I felt like confused. I fel confused very easily. That is how there can be confusion.
But there is more to it. There is combobox in Totalmix which gives the idea that there could be more RME devices in that list. Nothing gives an idea that there could not be an USB device in that list. Maybe it would not add to that list but another Raydat would. And nothing tells me but you did that two Raydats would combine. That was my question. Thank you for anwering that question. You say yes they will combine. I did not know that it is still on the shell. My additional point was anyway ask for insight if there is someone who really knows his Windows audio routing business. Windows has new sound settings and systems and routing compared to old times when I bought that Raydat.
RME has different drivers for different devices, this you can look-up in the download section of the products:
Firewire driver: driver_fw_win_3125.zip (Fireface 400, 800, 802, UCX, UFX)
Old USB driver: driver_usb_win_1212.zip (UFX, 802, UCX, UCX II, UC and Babyface/Pro)
Newer USB driver: driver_madiface_win_09735.zip (MADIface XT / USB / Pro, Fireface UFX+ / UFX II, OctaMic XTC, ADI-2 Pro/AE/FS/DAC, Digiface USB / Dante)
Thunderbolt driver: driver_tb_win_116.zip (UFX+)
HDSPe driver for PCI/PCIe cards: driver_hdsp_win_438.zip (all HDSP and HDSPe cards/systems)
Special Driver for HDSPe MADI FX card: driver_pciefx_win_216.zip
Digiface AVB and Digiface Dante: driver_madinet_win_09735_09553
In a perfect world it should already be known that an application / DAW can only load one ASIO driver
The manuals state that a driver supports up to three device instances. More than three cards of the same type would only be used in rare cases anyway, so setups with more cards are not tested. Above all, the PC must also be able to cope with the number of audio channels, especially important at higher sample rates (with higher bandwidth/throughput demands).
Such a setup of several cards is possible, but one must bear in mind that the audio channels cannot be routed between cards. Only within a recording interface. And you need to take care of, that the interfaces are clock synched between each other. For this purpose you might need to sacrifice one digital connection mainly for this clock synchronization or you use Word Clock if this is supported by all interfaces.
Therefore, it may make more sense to directly select ONE recording interface that supports all necessary interfaces or supports corresponding future expansions via ADAT and MADI. Then you could still route from every HW input and SW playback channel to every HW output.
You can use the Excel of my blog article to cross check some technical information between RME USB / FW / TB interfaces (except PCI/PCIe cards): https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … B-MADIfac/
Direct link to this Excel: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/index.ph … -04b-xlsx/
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