RME Hammerfall Digiface

Description

The HDSP System from RME consists of either a PCI card or a CardBus PCMCIA interface, plus an external I/O-box, that together can operate on either a desktop or a laptop computer.

The Digface is a digital input/output box housed in a small, compact enclosure. It provides three ADAT optical I/Os, ADAT-Sync In, S/PDIF I/O and Word clock I/O, along with two MIDI I/Os and a separate stereo analog line out. Since the parts of the Hammerfall DSP System can be combined freely, the Digiface can be used both with notebooks as well as desktop computers and provides "Zero CPU Load" technology that guarantees high performance and low latency.

Note: To make a complete system, a PCI, PCIe, express or PCMCIA card needs to be purchased

Features:

• Fifty-two channel S/PDIF-ADAT interface for use in RME HDSP computer audio systems
• Zero CPU load, even using all fifty-two ASIO channels
• Zero Latency monitoring for latency-free submixes and perfect ASIO direct monitoring
• Analog, ADAT and S/PDIF I/Os can be used simultaneously
• Automatic and intelligent master/slave clock control
• ADAT Sync In (9-pin D-sub) for sample-accurate transfers with unsurpassed Bitclock PLL (audio synchronization) in ADAT mode
• SyncCheck tests and reports the synchronization status of input signals
• Software based TotalMix 1,456 channel mixer with 40-bit internal resolution

Specifications:

Connectivity:
3 x ADAT I/O (at 96 kHz via S/Mux)
1 x SPDIF I/O
1 x Stereo Analog Output (separate for submix/phones)
2 x MIDI I/O
Word clock I/O
TotalMix

Converters: 24-bit
Sample Rates:** 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96kHz - internal
28 to 103kHz - external, via Wordclock
Analog Input: No
Analog Output: 1 x 1/4" TRS phone
Digital Input: 3 x TosLink ADAT optical
1 x RCA S/PDIF coaxial
Digital Output: 3 x TosLink ADAT optical
1 x RCA S/PDIF,AES coaxial
MIDI In/Out: 2 x I/O (16-channels)
Sync In/Out: 2 x BNC Wordclock (I/O)
S/PDIF
ADAT 9-pin sync-in
Headphone Output: Yes
THD + N -100dB, 0.001%
Dynamic Range 108dB (RMS unweighted, unmuted) 112dBA
Frequency Response D/A: 20Hz to 20.8kHz, -0.1dB @ 44,1kHz
D/A: 10Hz to 44.0kHz, -0.5dB @ 96kHz

System Requirements: Windows 2000 SP4/XP
Mac OS X 10.28 or higher

Specialties: Bitclock PLL for trouble-free varispeed ADAT operation

Links:

Product Manual
Manufacturers website