Topic: UFXiii new owner
Just wanted to drop a note on how pleased I am with with my new ufx3 I got a few days ago. Haven't done a ton with it, but have it hooked up to an audient asp880 via adat (longer term, I have another one of those but it's in the shop). Temporary in place is an older apollo with a daking 4 channel pre and the 4 mic channels from the apollo via adat. Adat outs from the ufx are feeding the behringer headphone thing. Have a couple outboard effects plugged in too, an eventide h9 and older Roland stereo reverb. Another set of outputs feeding a Neve headphone amp. Everything works like a champ, no issues on install. Love the sound of the built in preamps either for mics, a two notes captor x, or a Neve di I like to use with bass. The instrument input on channels 9-12 sounds great with my bass too. Basically the instrument DI holds it's own with the Neve di, and the headphone outputs hold their own with the Neve headphone amp (or the adi pro headphone amp). Also messed with using the adi pro via aes for monitoring vs just the ufx, and totally happy with just the ufx there.
Speaking to DSP effects, the eq and dynamics sound great to me too and are extremely useful. The verb and delay sounds good and again are extremely useful too.
And totalmix is just the bomb. I basically replaced my $17k Allen Heath gl-4000 with totalmix, and it's way more simple and flexible at the same time. For the behringer headphone stuff, I used to submix a pair for drums, guitar, vocals, keys, main mix, separate bass and then more me stuff like each vocal mic. For those 4 stereo submixes, I'd use some drawmer, daking and dbx compressors, but just having the ufx dynamics accomplishes the same thing which is just knocking a couple db off.
I tried all three cables that came with the unit connected to the Mac, the usb3 cable, usb2 cable, and the usb-c to usb3 cable. All worked without any hitch. This Mac is one of the intel mini's with 4 thunderbolt ports. I've also used my older fireface800 with a m2 MacBook Pro via a couple adapters and that was flawless, so not worried about that end either.
Basically wanted to drop a note of thanks and positivity about the unit. In general I kind of see a lot of stuff on the forum that has a kind of negative connotation with it, like I can't get this to work, or just problems in general, and it was kind of making me wary of the products because it all seems so negative, but it's really not that way. Maybe more like the people with problems are the only people who seem to post looking for help, and I get that, but just wanted to say that I'm blown away with this thing.
Would be remiss if I didn't mention the latency too. If you are singing with headphones through say an apollo at 2ms round trip at 48k compared to an analog signal path, it's sort of night and day for that comb filtering that latency creates. The .1ms roundtrip of the ufx doesn't have that effect at all. Super cool.
The cherry on the cake is madi which I haven't touched at all, but that can open up a world of possibilities in the future for me. Super, super cool.
Cheers and sincere thanks to the RME engineers and staff in general.
