RME's take on the Duet, the Babyface

[Currawong]

I didn't see this posted anywhere already, but when I saw "balanced I/O" I immediately checked the price...bit steep though at around 600 Euro yet doesn't have Firewire. The VGA plug break-out cable will make DIY dead easy though, and it's not recessed like the Duet's.

From: RME Delivers Babyface Audio Interface

RME has announced the impending delivery of Babyface, a new 22-channel portable USB 2.0 audio interface. Babyface sports digitally controlled mic preamps, instrument input, ADAT, S/PDIF and MIDI ports. The built-in TotalMix FX DSP mixer includes high-quality EQ, delay and reverb for tracking and monitoring.

Sample rates up to 192 kHz

Analog I/O x2

Mic/Line preamp x2, digitally controlled

Alternate Instrument Input

Stereo Headphone Output

ADAT I/O

S/PDIF optical port (switchable with ADAT I/O)

MIDI port

USB 2.0 port

Edited April 16, 2010 by Currawong
Fixed the images.

[grawk]

gotta love marketspeak. Because it has adat IO, it claims 22 channels (2 spdif out, 8 adat in, 8 adat out, 2 analog in, 2 analog out). MIDI is a nice addition, tho

[Currawong]

I don't know anything about ADAT, but it does look like the tried to include everything but the kitchen sink just about.

[mypasswordis]

Including a baby's face.

[Dreadhead]

sweet it's mac and pc Color me interested.

[jp11801]

if it sounds like the FW400 I'd pass but maybe they've made some improvements

[jinp6301]

firewire 400 is too slow?

[deepak]

firewire 400 is too slow?

Doubt it. I think most modern Macs are on FW800 now.

[jinp6301]

ahh, that would be a problem

[grawk]

No it isn't. Fw400 works on 800 ports

[jinp6301]

oh, so it wouldnt be a problem

so whats the problem here?

Edited April 17, 2010 by jinp6301

[mypasswordis]

They didn't end up including the babies' faces.

[jp11801]

sorry for the derail I meant the RME Fire Face 400, this was their stand alone fire wire solution that I owned for about 5 minutes as it sucked balls sonically and quit working on day one