No, not kidding. And you've misunderstood what I wrote there...  not "many years ago"... Still now!!  I'm not sure what your issue is, but I use RME UF and UFXII daily on MacOS silicon without issue.  Yes, there were some obstacles in the earlier parts of the beta with the DriverKit drivers.  However, that has been sorted. (it was a beta after all)

Wait a minute.. I never referred to anyone as an idiot. Nor did I say that people were having hallucinations and I clearly mentioned that in the beta stage of this very new driver, that yes, there were indeed problems.
But please don't make this into something that it is not.  All the very best on which ever path you take.

Hi,

I came here a few times with the same frustration of having cracks with any sound source I used with an RME Babyface FS interface. After uninstalling SoundSource and ACE from Rogue Amoeba, those cracks have disappeared! I can finally listen to and compose some music without constant glitches.

I hope this can help some people using similar setups including Audio Hijack or other tools hacking the audio chain.

Hi eveyone,

Newbie here.

Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section of the forum. Sorry also for my faulty English, this is not my mother tongue.

I have a small issue.

I just purchased a Mac Mini M2 2023 running under Ventura, and moved to a RME BabyFace Pro FS as unfortunately Mac has decided some time ago to drop the digital outputs on its machines. the BabyFace is connected to the Mini using the supplied USB C cable.

Installation went fine, I could hook successfully my XLR microphone and the headset to the BabyFace and it works well.

My issue is with the Digital Output to the SoundBar I'm using for audio playback on the Mini. When selecting it, nothing happens. I cannot see any life on TotalMix FX's AS1/2. The cable seems OK - I can see light at the connector end on the SoundBar side - I have set the USB settings to SPDIF, I changed several time the sample rate from 32,000 Hz up to 192,000 Hz and of course 44,100 Hz in between, Clock Source internal... and still nothing.

Can you please let me know what I have done wrong?

Well actually I have not touched much to TM FX, I was under the impression this should be working straight out of the box - again, completely new to the RME world.

I am selecting it on the BabyFace itself, by pressing the hard button 'out' till the 'opt' appears.

Thanks a lot Oli, I managed to make it work following your recommendation!

The last bit was to select a sample rate limited to 44,100 Hz to hear sound. I guess then the BabyFace cannot perform upsampling?

While trying to make it work, I lost on TotalMix the Phone 3/4 channel on hardware output - it does appear on 'Software Playback' but on the 'Hardware Outputs' section it jumps directly from 'AN 1/2' to 'AS 1/2' and as a matter of fact, there is no sound going to the headphone any longer -

Sorry to be so dump...

Thanks Oli for all your explanations!

I got it back thanks to you -

Sorry to ask again... This should be the last issue...

The sound is coming through USB. At this stage, I'd like to get it out through PH 3/4 and / or AS 1/2. It can get out through AN 1/2 like the case now, but this is not important if it doesn't.

How to make it work in a simple way? As shown the only outgoing signal is through AN 1/2. I've tried to do it on the interface (Out/In/Mix/Select with the right options), no way; I've tried to assign it through the control room, no way. Currently everything is unassigned... and no activity on both outputs...

Thanks for your patience!

It helped a lot, I don't understand why you have to pay for third-party software to work with the sound card, otherwise, I get glitches

Hi everyone,

Moving bit by bit... I've moved to 'submix' mode, and tried to watch videos from RME in order to better understand how it works.

I guess my main confusion comes from the fact I believed the AN 1/2 input was the Mac, actually this is the XLR Input (I was not joking when I mentioned I was a Newbie...).

Question is then how to materialize the Mac on the TotalMix interface (I've seen it was the case on one of the videos, in the 'Software Playback' section but maybe it should better be in the 'Hardware Input' section?), in order to perform the right routing? Excepted for the microphone, all sounds are coming from the Mini.

I've hooked the BabyFace through the USB only, since no other output available on the Mini.

Renewed thanks for your patience, I realise how dumb I am on this kind of subjects...

I would recommend you to try another view: an audio interface is kind of an additional part of the computer. The transferred (audio) data between the two units over USB is comparable to the data traffic on a mainboard or such, but not really comparable to audio streams over analog or digital cables. As soon your Babyface pro is plugged in, the computer now has mic and instrument inputs, headphone and XLR main outputs as well as optical i/o and midi i/o ports.
Maybe now Totalmix makes more sense? 'Hardware inputs' are the ports for microphones or such. 'AN' simply means 'analog'. 'Software playback' channels are for what is coming from the computer, or better to say: files or streams played from whatever software that can use audio (Zoom, browser with YouTube, DAW, video players…). 'Hardware outputs' are to control the physical outputs. But now there is something a bit hard to get for new users: the RME driver 'tells' to the system, what device and how many input and output channels there are. If you choose a particular output stereo pair, for example ADAT 3/4 in Logic pro, the system now sends the audio data over the corresponding channels to the Babyface and you can see the levels on the 'software playback' channels ADAT 3/4. But the audio data didn’t reach the physical output yet. Of course normally one would route it 1:1 to the corresponding hardware output because it makes sense, but with Totalmix it’s possible to route this signals to every output you want, let’s say you want it to hear on your headphones. Logic pro now still 'thinks' it’s sending to ADAT 3/4, but TotalMix 'knows' it’s routed to the headphone outputs instead (or in addition).

Hello all, I left a message earlier in this thread about audio stuttering on M1 macs. It does seem hit and miss who is affected.

Those posting about this issue at Audiosciencereview are reporting resolution with installation of MacOS Sonoma Beta. I've since reverted back to an Intel machine so unable to test myself but it may offer a resolution for those still reporting the issue here. May be worth trying an install on an external drive to test.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/foru … 01/page-15

Sounds promising, but I'd love to hear from an RME user that the MacOS beta solved this glitch / dropout problem! Sure hope it solves it. Driving me up the wall! Just tried making a new user account on this Mac to see if that would help. Hours setting up Bitwig & plugins and licences only to get the same glitchy result.

Fingers crossed for MacOS Sonoma (but then I've said this every OS release for the past few years).. Think I'll wait for the final release though, very wary of installing a beta on this machine.

Hello all, I am an owner of a Fireface UFX III and a Macbook 16" M1 Pro (32 gb of ram and 1 tb of ssd).
I am a guitar player and I normally run Neural DSP / Amplitube 5 and other similar software.
With the Fireface I need to set up my buffer size to 128 to avoid droplets and crackling noise. (48khz, with a latency around 7.5 ms)
With a Scarlet 2i2 I can go low as 32 (48khz, with a latency around 3 ms).
Out of curiosity I tried the Fireface on a Windows machine (a gaming PC 3 years old) and I was surprise to see way better performance from my RME interface: 48khz, 32 buffer size at 1.8 ms of latency with zero drop or cracking noise.
Is it normal that wind driver perform way better than mac os one?
Why the scarlet 2i2 is performing better than the Fireface UFX III? Is it because of the RME M1 driver are not yet at 100%?
Thanks!

Same exact software.
In particular my stress test is:
- playing the youtube video of a solo I am studying, with looper.tube at a slower speed then original.
- playing guitar with a standalone app like neural dsp Nolly or McRockling Suite from Polychrome DSP.
To avoid any drop/crackling noise I need to setup the buffer at least at 96 or 128.
In windows, everything was smooth at 32.

There's no such thing as "RME support" exist. Their answer is: "Something wrong with your computer, change it"

That is wrong !

There is a difference between looking for help for solving a problem
and looking for someone who do the work for you. Whiping...

yup, this!!!

I actually work hard to afford gear that cost a lot of money, and I expect them to WORK, without me wasting my time on figuring it out..

a small update: I made some tests on my M1 Pro mac with another different audio interface: an Arturia Minifuse 4 (a 250$ interface). I had zero issue even with a buffer of 16 and 32 doing exactly the same operation I normally do.
I then tested again with the Fireface UFX III and it immediately started to stutter and create audio pops.
I might understand that that the issue is from Apple, but it doesn't make my 3k $ audio interface usable.
I will have to return it, luckily I am still inside my return window.

I don't disagree, Apple is a giant and can do whatever they want and that is not correct.
But I really like the ecosystem. I started using mac os in 2006 and for me it was a game changer.
Every time I use a windows laptop I am lost.
btw: I did a NVRAM reset of my mac and now I am back to a usable environment, I can't go low as 32 buffer size, but 64 or 128 now is back to be usable. I don't know what happened before but it was nuts, it was stuttering every time I was moving from one app to another

If a OSX system works, it's the best around. It was the Apple argument since earlier. Now, we have 1 OS update by year. 3rd party developers can't keep up) and they force you to switch to the lastest one if you use Logic, it was the thing I quit all Apple apps. Final cut to Resolve (free and way more powerful), Logic to Cubase to Reaper (free!) and many more apps to gently stay away from them. YES, Windows OS is annoying, disturbing but I think the most important is softwares you use on it and spend the most of your time

Emmm...Apple Silicon doesn't have NVRAM reset

But here you are comparing apples with oranges. The Arturia is a 4-channel audio interface, where a total of only (!) 8 input and output channels are permanently transferred via USB2. The UFX III is a 94 channel interface where 188 input and output channels have to be permanently transferred via USB3.
This is a much higher audio bandwidth that has to be permanently transferred via USB. It doesn't matter if the inputs or outputs are in use, everything is always transferred by the driver.
So if there is a problem somewhere in the Apple operating system that interferes with real-time audio processing, it is no surprise that the likelihood of audio problems is higher with an interface that has more channels (in this case, many more channels) as so much more audio data has to be transferred / processed in time.

You do realize that people who have issues doesn't use all those channels and i/o? I have stutters only when using headphones with Spotify, not when recording Vienna Symphonic Orcestra