Hi, rbpeirce. Thanks for your interest. My article is here:
https://hexspa.com/home-studio-house-curves/

The specific outbound link you may want for Mac is here:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/foru … oid.18450/

Please keep in mind that I only have used EQAPO for Windows, and have no experience applying room EQ using a Mac nor a Linux machine. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions, thanks.

Whats that? URL please.

You should know that I am quite familiar with TM FX ;-)
But I never heard the term "workspace browser"; therefore I became curious.

I can't find anything with "browser" in the UFX III manual, which should contain all TM FX features.

So, could you kindly explain what you mean by "workspace browser"?

Thanks Jeff, yes indeed.

No problem, thanks.

Even 30 workspaces. The most practical thing is that you can recall the first 9 using ALT-1 .. ALT-9, which is great for either switching between different workspaces or for quick recovery of settings.

Just a short praise:

I use the Hdspe Madi FX with ARC USB, for a 7.1.4 monitoring setup with Sonarworks SoundID and it works fantastic.
Snapshots 1-4 have 0%, 40%, 70%, and 100% Room correction measured and imported with SoundID for all 12 speakers. Including volume and delay. Fantastic. Thank you very much for this. It took only 2 hours to set it up.

Georg

The busy looking graph includes tons of inaudible, very narrow-band and lower amplitude corrections. These can be easily disregarded with no audible difference. In the end 9 fully parametric bands per channel (!) is more than enough.

is there any effect on the phase when using the room eq?

I know sonarworks does not correct phase (unlike Dirac live), but in the plugin there are different filter modes with different effects on ringing and phase. "zero latency" and "mixed" mode introducing some phase shifts while linear phase has can cause some pre ringing...

Why? REW (Room EQ Wizard) can export the EQs as WAV files for convolution. This saves a lot of time as you don't have to copy the EQ settings manually. Also REW can't compensate just the bass and then you need more than 9 EQs. For RME a convolver would have been a better choice. EQ convolution files are very short so convolution is very fast and performant. Quite unlike a reverb. I'm currently using it in software and it works great.

Edit: And by the way: Many guitar multi-effects units use it for cabinet emulation. Even the low-budget units. So embedded hardware is definitely capable of delivering the required performance.

Do the firmware update and add the latest TM FX from our website to your Windows 7 machine. That should work (although I did not try it myself).

The firmware update worked on the UFX II but just using TM FX 1.93 doesn't do the job and won't show the room eq options. I guess the driver has to correspond. I haven't tried the lastest driver on my 7 machine, but I'm happy for now, since I can manipulate the room eq on the front panel.
Maybe I'm going to run the latest driver on a test machine with 7.

Cheers!

P.S. RME is awesome!

Hello all,

I have an at least for me strange behaviour (RME UFX III, everything on newest version): I have the room-eq on and use mainly two mixes as start point for working. Both mixes are stored also in the device for offline use.
When I switch between the mixes with TotalMixFX all is fine. But sometimes I don't switch my computer on because just want to use the interface standalone for practicing. When I now switch to another mix on the interface directly, then the room-eq is deactivated.

Is this for purpose?

BR
Werner

This would be an explanation, yes.  But I was thinking that the benefit of the RME Room-EQ is especially that it is DSP based and therefore with very low latency. I' also prettty sure that also the DSP load display is indicating higher load when the Room-EQ is used.

I switch only between mix snapshots on the device. No DS/QS change...

Thanks in advance.

Greets
Werner

Thx for reply. I'll double check these things and I'll come back with further details.

br
Werner

And that is by design, so no issue here at all.

The "hardware update to the Babyface" is called the Fireface UCX II. It is not much less portable than the Babyface Pro, but it supports full stand-alone operation and can be powered by a small USB PD adapter or a battery pack with a corresponding 12 V marker cable.

With all due respect and feeling for your disappointment, gambling in hope that some features would be added later is not a wise purchase decision strategy. Nor is not getting familiarized with the actual features and limitations of the product prior to ordering. And the Babyface Pro FS is the opposite from "flagship", it's the entry-level and most basic RME audio interface.

And to be fair, I'm not aware of any bus-powered audio interface that offers a full DSP-based PEQ facility.

Perhaps the Antelope Zen Quadro Synergy Core. It's bus powered with DSP effects and has a lot more of the hardware features I wish I had, except for the stability of the RME drivers.

I read the manual, I don't understand what you mean by that it's not bus powered. Please explain how connecting it to my MacBook Pro via USB-C is not enough to use it.

Page 7 of the manual clearly states that you require a higher than standard power output from your USB port:

That does not sound like bus-powered to me. And Antelope does not even specify the actual power requirements of their product, only mentioning that in case it does not start from your computer's USB port, you can plug in an additional USB power supply with at least 1.5 A at 5 V, which is way out of the standard spec for both USB 2 (500 mA) and USB 3 (900 mA). A "pro" manufacturer indeed. So no, it cannot be considered a bus-powered interface at all, and they contradict themselves in that regard, even misleading their potential customers.

How can I know that? It depends on the actual power capacity of your MacBook Pro's USB port. But considering the aforementioned statements, I would not take a risk.

That being said, I don't understand what the argument here is about, since the question originally was whether it has a fully-featured DSP suitable for room PEQ, which that unit does not have, so it's not so relevant whether it can be powered with the host's USB port alone or cannot (which most probably it can't and in worst case could even damage your host hardware).

P.S. It's also funny enough how you are required to activate an audio interface over the Internet with no way around that (as stated on the same page of the manual).

P.P.S. They pretend to be from Bulgaria, yet there are neither a Bulgarian-language version of their web site nor a Bulgarian user manual, while they are available in Chinese. Also no actual physical address is specified on their web site. That raises some flags. Compare it with RME that, being a German company, does, of course, provide documentation in their native German language and does not hide its corporate whereabouts.

Look here, straight from MC: