What monitors are those ? And how are they connected ?

Is there a headphone connected to one of your devices ?

The low signal with the small delay you heard, could that be coming from that headphone ?

The analog outputs of your Babyface provides a sound to the speakers while that output is muted in Totalmix ?
Then the Babyface should go to the inspection at RME service.
I suggest to contact the support :  support@rme-audio.com

So if there’s a delay between the signals you’re hearing then I am wondering what buffer setting you have the Babyface using? The delay would suggest it is multiple trips DA AD DA AD etc.

The 500Adat will always send it’s input back to adat - regardless of if the initial signal is sourced from analog or digital. There is no stopping this. Both the Babyface and 500Adat rack (I own 2 of these) are reliable devices suggesting you have some rogue signal routing in totalmix. Maybe try viewing the totalmix as a matrix instead of a mixer. This can help in seeing routing you might miss in the other view.

Kind regards

I appreciate the help guys. Cranborne believe it must be a routing issue within totalmix too.

I've made a video and taken some screenshots that can hopefully help.

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public/500ADAT

Apologies. Please try this one.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ek0b7yuwove9 … XnSsa?dl=0

I will give that a go, just to rule that out.

I think its likely that the signal is coming in on both 3/4 and 5/6.
Although I can't see anything that would indicate that it should be.

I think the part I'm struggling with, is how I can stop / disable hearing the signal from 5/6, as I only want to use it as a hardware insert.
I'm not sure what is actually monitoring it?

You can see in my videos that I muted all faders except my software and hardware send, and the sound can still be heard.

Hi there. That's one of the first things I tried.
I've just gave it another go there, and the issue persists unfortunatley.

A bit of progress though;

Within Cubase;
When only the external effect send is active (1/2), without allocating a return buss, the phantom signal can still be heard.
Meaning that it is potentially the send itself that is being monitored.

However if I reduce either the ADAT 1/2 hardware output in totalmix, or the AS 1/2 software playback that is feeding it, nothing is sent out to the hardware.

Picture attached to show this in Cubase;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4j7l4m0x9qawu … s.jpg?dl=0

With the rest of the previous screencaps and videos here;

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ek0b7yuwove9 … XnSsa?dl=0

Have you done the Totalmix Total Reset ? Give it a try.

Cranborne suggested:

If you can, it would be awesome to try out the 500ADAT standalone to determine if the bleed is making its way through its internal circuitry.

If you disconnect 500ADAT from your RME via ADAT, connect a line source - such as a keyboard, CD player, MP3, to the inputs of slots 1/2, and set the source switch to inputs 1-2 to ANLG, the whole chain should work as expected but in the analogue domain - this would completely remove the RME from the setup.

Next, if you connect headphones to the 500ADAT, set the Blend control to MIX, then raise each Mix level control beneath each slot one at a time to see what you are getting. You should be able to get good, strong signal from all of the slots and they should all, hopefully, be more or less fully in time with each other. I would be very interested to know if slots 5-6 sound clean and in time.

When doing this, 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6 are all of similar sonic quality.

This seems to indicate the Babyface Pro is the issue.

Should I raise a support ticket for this? I haven't had many replies from Tech Support in this thread.

Hey man. How can I connect them to 5/6 without using the 500ADAT for expansion?