You're right to tease me, actually it's because I'm not much of a sound engineer. I've read he manual, but It doesn't say what you have to do concretely to set either a line level input or a microphone level input.

If I understand well the line-in input cable of the breakout cable can be used either as a line level input or as a microphone level input, but the manual doesn't say how it works. Does the babyface first gen automatically detects the level when you plug your gear into it or do you have to push a button, tick an option box, or adjust the volume somewhere to choose between line level and microphone level?

Thanks Metalheadkeys!
Now I just have to connect the line out cables of my babyface to the line inputs of my unbalanced listening equipment.

From the manual :

How do I make sure to get the right cable for that? I have a specialized shop by my house but I wonder if they're aware of such stuff. They might just sell me some cable with no indication on the box.

This too is problematic, I don't quite understand :

So this quote is about the inputs (line-in) of the babyface? Is that right?

I bought a pair of "xlr to rca" cables and modified on both cables the neutrik xlr connector to make sure that pin 3 of the xlr connector was not connected to anything. Was I right to do that ?

I have sound but I get usb noise (noise that varies when you move the mouse and such). On the other end when using the phone output of the babyface the sound is clean (no noise at all).

Line out of the babyface is not usable at all. What did I do wrong?

Thank you Mr carsten,
That's what I was thinking, what should be the characteristics of a good power supply for the babyface first gen?

I was therefore thinking about using the toslink output of my computer motherboard (providing the babyface will work with it no questions asked, I hope so) and plug it into the toslink input of the babyface. But then I need to know what power supply to buy for it.

Thanks a lot, that's good to know. Not a great thing though, but you just saved me some time and money.
Is mine an early version ?
Here is a photo of the sticker on the back of my babyface. unfortunately the sticker is damaged...
https://i.ibb.co/txDRWZ5/babyface-serial-number.jpg

Can I feed the babyface some usb power (not usb power from the computer) while connecting the babyface to my computer only through a toslink cable? Would that work well?

Edit : I have that one laying around: https://www.hema.com/fr-fr/papeterie/or … 30068.html
https://www.hema.com/dw/image/v2/BBRK_P … 110_01.jpg

I don't if it's for phones.

I'm stupid, I just have a toslink output on my motherboard. I tried but it's not working of course.

If I can't make it work I'm probably going back to realtek. I think it will be workable as I got a newer motherboard with a magical coloured line that is supposed to protect the audio circuit from parasites or something. I'm quite disgusted at audio lately, all the things I could have done with the money I spent in fancy yet crippled gear. RME is my last effort, last shot, and the biggest one by far.

First it is buffer size, not sample rate. Second changing that while ASIO and WDM is active is no good idea. Third on some computers WDM requires a setting of 256 or 128 samples.

I have 6 WDM devices activated in "fireface usb settings". So If I select 0 instead of 6 should the buffer size problem be over ?
What are the consequences of selecting 0 instead of 6 ? My browser won't work? Btw even with "6" the volume on my taskbar doesn't work (not a big deal though).

What if I choose zero in order to change the buffer size and then put the value back to 6 ? Would that work? As simple as that ?

Is a 128 samples buffer size low enough for perfect monitoring of myself singing? I'd hate it if I was late, I'm used to work with  absolute zero 100% analogical latency with reverb on my voice.
Where do I set the required WDM devices ?

As for applications I use reaper, for me only reaper requires zero latency monitoring, the rest (browser, vlc and mphc) don't require it).

Can I have a exhaustive list of all codes names please ?

PH 3/4
AN 1
An 1/2
ADAT
Phones 1
Main
A/S 1/2
etc...

What each one means, in extensive details. I'm just lost. Also the command "Option/reset mix/total reset" doesn't reset everything, for instance I changed from "submix" to "free" (don't even know what it means), yet after the reset "free" was still selected. Same goes for the AN 1 column in hardware inputs, if I click on the bottom of it and choose another code name and then do a total reset, it doesn't change it back.

I'd really like to have a clear view of things. The manual are tutorial are somehow too short, too general.

Well it doesn't work. I spent hours trying to figure. If you want to save your time maybe you should consider letting others answer instead of giving the impression that the question is answered by giving general random links like a bot.

I'm sorry to be so rude, but I'm just asking simple and precise questions. I hate it when people say "google is your friend", "read the manual", of course I did these things, everybody does these things first, but not everybody is meant to be an engineer, some people just need concrete, precise, exhaustive, and complete answers.

It's like they make it complicated on purpose so that audio engineers who work in studios think they actually possess some precious knowledge that others don't have.

They couldn't just write "microphone", "line", etc... but no, they had to use those stupid codes, just like soviets though they sounded cool by using acronyms all the time.

And wait : We won't give you the codes that easily, you can't understand everything on the first day. Read for a week, read again, and again, and in one or two years, then, maybe you'll be so proud to belong to the elite of people who are actually able to use a RME product.

And what do these code mean?

Why can't I reset the whole totalmix software ?