Forum for questions and discussions concerning RME gear under Linux. No official driver support. RME's solution: adding the most advanced IEM output imaginable as second phones connection to the front of the ADI-2 DAC. Its ground noise floor is an astounding 10 dB lower than the one of the Extreme Power output (black hole background), output impedance is near zero Ohms, THD reaches new record lows, click-free on/off is included as well. Install RME Fireface 800 driver for Windows 7 x64, or download DriverPack Solution software for automatic driver installation and update.
For the first time, even SPDIF (phono) and AES/EBU (XLR) are simultaneously operational due to separated hardware and record/playback devices. RayDAT offers no less than 4 x ADAT optical I/O, SPDIF I/O and AES/EBU I/O. That's a whopping 36 channels of inputs and outputs. On top, there are 2 MIDI I/Os and TotalMix, RME's unsurpassed DSP-based real-time mixer/router, with hardware-calculated level metering and complete MIDI remote capability. HDSPe RayDAT also supports the optional TCO for synchronization to timecode (LTC/video).
Internal ADAT inputs and outputs allow to add up to two TDIF ports directly inside the computer via RME's optional expansion boards.
HDSPe RayDAT is the newly developed PCI Express version of the HDSP 9652. A genuine PCI Express core consequently takes full advantage of the new format, achieving significant performance gains in multitrack audio. Thanks to RME's secure flash update technology, firmware improvements, adjustments, and bugfixes can be installed easily at any time.
The HDSPe RayDAT provides unique features:
- 4 x ADAT digital I/O, supporting 192 kHz via S/MUX4 operation
- 1 x SPDIF digital I/O, 192 kHz-capable
- 1 x AES/EBU digital I/O, 192 kHz-capable
- 2 x MIDI I/O, 32 channels high-speed MIDI via breakout cable
- Up to 36 inputs and 36 outputs can be used simultaneously!
- DIGICheck, RME's unique metering- and analysing tool
- TotalMix: 2592 channel mixer with 42 bit internal resolution
- Native PCI Express - no PCI to PCI Express bridge used
- S/MUX poured in hardware: 16 channels 24-bit/96kHz for record and playback on ADAT optical
- HDSPe RayDAT includes SteadyClockTM, RME's own clock technology, combining professional features like maximum
- jitter suppression at full varipitch capabilities and software controlled sample rates.
Included software:
DIGICheck for Windows: Spectral Analyser, professional level meter for 2, 8, or 36 channels, Vector Audio Scope, various other audio analysis tools.
I have reported before that the driver installer executable rmeinstaller.exe does not work properly. I have used it on three different Windows 10 Pro 64 bit machines, all of which are updated to the latest version ( 1803 ). The installer hangs after the first screen. The task continues to run without any CPU activity and after waiting for approximately 60 seconds appears to continue and finish correctly. However after a reboot the icon for the control tool is not present. To get around this is was necessary to go to the
C:Users%username%AppDataLocalTemprme directory and run or rerun dpinst64.exe. Incidentally I also tried running as administrator but that made no difference.
Rme Drivers Big Sur
On the particular machine I was building today ( core -I7 but with a fairly old socket LGA 1366 motherboard) there was a further problem even then because the ASIO drivers were not working. In Audacity ( built with ASIO support ) no ASIO drivers were even detected. In Foobar 2000 the output could be set to Madiface ASIO but when play was pressed it said that the driver could not be loaded. I checked a number of things but eventually found that I had to disable the Realtek HD Audio ( Realtek ALC889 codec) by switching off the on board audio device in BIOS. Not the first time I have found that Realtek drivers break ASIO ( and not only the RME ASIO drivers).