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Topic: Babyface questions

Hi
I've just got myself a nice new babyface 'snow edition' as an upgrade from my hdsp9632 and have a couple of questions

1)  I bought the snow edition mainly because of the extra rca cables included, I have a hifi amp,  but after receiving I suddenly realised I'm going to need the xlr inputs for my mics.  There does not seem to be a cable available that has both options so could I use some xlr to rca adaptors on the outputs?  What would be the downside of this?

2)  I understand that the lowest output latency on Mac is 14 samples.  Are there any known applications where I can try this low latency?

3) Is the USB cable a standard printer cable - if so can I safely use a longer cable or will there be an impact on performance?

Thanks a lot for any answers

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Re: Babyface questions

grandaddy wrote:

1)  I bought the snow edition mainly because of the extra rca cables included, I have a hifi amp,  but after receiving I suddenly realised I'm going to need the xlr inputs for my mics.  There does not seem to be a cable available that has both options so could I use some xlr to rca adaptors on the outputs?  What would be the downside of this?

RCA connectors are unbalanced. Unbalanced connectors allow hum and buzz into your signal path by design. 3 pin XLR connectors are balanced connectors. They reject buzz and hum by design when connected with balanced shielded microphone cable. Star Quad cable and Neutrix EMC XLR ( http://www.neutrik.com/en/xlr/xlr-cable … mc-series/ ) connectors provide the highest level of signal transfer integrity

best regards,
Blair Francey
Fireface 802/ARC USB; HDSP Multiface x 2; 2023 AMD Windows 10 Custom PC
  • From: Canada
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Re: Babyface questions

grandaddy wrote:

3) Is the USB cable a standard printer cable - if so can I safely use a longer cable or will there be an impact on performance?

The USB cable length limit is 5 metres. Read the full explanation here: http://www.usb.org/developers/usbfaq/

best regards,
Blair Francey
Fireface 802/ARC USB; HDSP Multiface x 2; 2023 AMD Windows 10 Custom PC

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Re: Babyface questions

Also read this thread:

http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic … 877#p56877

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  • Registered: 2009-03-30
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Re: Babyface questions

Thanks a lot for the replies. 

My cable runs are short so hopefully a couple of these will do the trick and hum etc will be minimal.

http://www.neutrik.com/en/accessories/c … rs/na2fpmf

I also bought a cheap 1.8m usb cable which appears to work perfectly! (only trouble is it is not white, like it said on the packet, but cream - looks ugly against the ice white of the 'snow' edition)

6 Reply by grandaddy (edited by grandaddy 2012-01-02 23:49:39)

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Re: Babyface questions

I have achieved amazing performance with reaper - 14 samples buffer playing Toontrack Superior 2 live with edrums with no glitches at all!

I do have one problem however in that if I play iTunes simultaneously whilst Reaper is running. initially playback will be fine but after a while I start getting audio dropouts in iTunes (reaper is fine).  I have reaper routed to AN 1 and 2 whilst system audio, iTunes, is routed to channels 7 and 8.  Any thoughts?

(I'm also getting the same issue with cubase 6 and Toontrack solo)