My deep gratitude to the RME engineers for making such a solid, long lived product, well supported by carefully written driver and software.

here:  babyface, ufx, ff400 all still running strong from mac os 10.14.6 intel to 12.6.1 M1 apple silicon.

Keep it up, RME.

-jeremiah moore, san francisco

Is good that there is a place where some feel they have a place they belong.

I‘m just not that type of devoted fanboy. It’s quite amusing to let the build up grow  that it reveals the true personalities of some (even if the internet provides the convinient cloke to hide behind). 

Feel free to unleash your feelings and please feel free to dry yourself of after you are finished you want the title of RME brown nose boy be my guest!

If it wasn’t for opinions being made we wouldn’t challenge the quality but as pointed above I think your attitude has already been questioned by RME.  Let’s see - do you want to push it to the point where you are no longer welcomed around these parts?

As for my feelings I do think there have been some issues with the recent quality of RMEs Babyface  pro FS from a physical point and driver situation, I’ve used the devices since the Fireface (the 400 was fantastic).  I’m entitled to an opinion and if you like it or if anyone cares or not is not my problem, RME need to know how some customers feel.  It doesn’t live up to the same quality I’ve experienced and I don’t see a problem with pointing that out.  To say nobody cares is an oversite given that others have vented frustration.

I await a pathetic insult that last time almost got someone barred. For the rest of us, as I said making these points only serves to assist RME in making sure the quality remains consistent.

I’ve been following this thread since its inception and am quite shocked that RME have allowed the degree of vitriol and personal attacks that have occurred, and are continuing to occur.

I haven’t always agreed with how @strangedays has presented his thoughts (although I have silently agreed with many of them) but do we really need to stoop to personal attacks, people)?

Apple is unreliable, I’m not using it anymore for studiowork, but even office applications, peripherals, password caches etc break with a new update, even within the same version. The times my macbook had a security update and after the mandatory reboot all credentials were gone, app access rights revoked etc. It’s appalling. Apple doesn’t care about their 3rd pty ecosystem. Never did, never will. You can’t rely on them, they are as unreliable in that area as they come.

I have used RME for about 10 years, and I love everything about the products, the company and most of the forum users:)
But this thread is a painful read, and I can understand DaveC:s frustration. The op opens up by telling us all that "I am getting fed up with RME" and finishes with "I think they have lost the game now." The thread evolves, but sadly it´s mostly petulant whining and misdirected entitlement from the op, which is odd to me as numerous ppl have tried their best to help...
To me, this kind of whining does not belong here, because all of us know that RME always do their best to do right by users old and new, and that this hard earned reputation is what made us RME users in the first place. If there is a problem, a bug or whatever, report it and you will not only get help from some of the best forum users in the business, you will also get help directly from RME support (Daniel) and even Mattias himself.
So if you are prone to petulant whining, perhaps call a friend and get it out of your system? Then come here and look for support.