RME MADIFACE USB 64-Channel MADI Audio Interface

64-Channel MADI Audio Interface

RME MADIFACE USB is a 64-channel MADI audio interface usable as a mixer, router, format converter, stream splitter or signal repeater. It can be used to create redundancy, automatic failover and even low-latency mixes between optical, coaxial and USB 2.0 audio inputs.
RME MADIFACE USB provides MADI I/O over USB 2.0 while simultaneously supporting the full 64 channels of the format for recording and playback on Mac and Windows. Both inputs can be used for full redundancy operation. Optionally, both MADI I/Os can be used simultaneously for complete access to 128 channels of input and output, mixed and routed by TotalMix. Even without a computer, it offers an extraordinary bidirectional format converter and active repeater functionality.
Its rugged design and bus-powered architecture make it as easy to use as it is reliable in operation. RME MADIFACE USB is both MADI portability at its best and also a perfect desktop solution for connecting MADI equipment to any Mac and PC. A true gem in terms of flexibility, utility and seamless operation, as you would expect from RME.
RME MADIFACE USB offers several operational modes when used with a Mac or Windows computer: 64 Channel Mix, Redundancy mode, 128 Channel Mix and a direct routing mode. The Disable TotalMix option completely disables TotalMix, the unit's flexible internal mixer and routing matrix. All input and output data go directly to recording/come from playback, with no mixing or routing involved. In this mode the outputs are mirrored, carrying the same signal. In 64 Channel Mix mode TotalMix displays 64 channels of input, playback and output. All settings in TotalMix use data from one MADI input port and send identical data to both MADI output ports. The currently active MADI input port can be configured in the Settings dialog. The AutoSelect option enables automatic input selection. Using both inputs simultaneously, AutoSelect puts the device into Seamless Redundancy mode. RME MADIFACE USB will switch to the other input in real time if the current one fails. In 128 Channel Mix mode, recording and playback are still limited to 64 channels, with the current input selected in the Settings dialog. But the other input is also available via TotalMix and the output signal is not mirrored but separate, with TotalMix having 128 output channels. Applications such as independent output mix, monitoring and serial pass-through of the second source are just a few clicks away.
SteadyClock and RME's well-known MADI compatibility guarantee seamless operation with other devices. MIDI over MADI technology can be used to remotely control other MADI devices.
RME MADIFACE USB comes with RME's exclusive software package for measurement, testing, measurement and analysis of digital audio streams. On Mac OS X it provides unique spectral analysis features and characteristics of data calculated at hardware level up to sophisticated multichannel level meters. On Windows an additional multitrack recorder and playback data visualization from audio software are also available.

Specifications

• Inputs/outputs: 2 MADI I/O, optical and coaxial (BNC)
• MIDI input and output: Via virtual MIDI port
• Clock mode: Master (internal) and Slave (MADI input)
• Sampling frequencies: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz, variable (Sync/DDS)
• Jitter: < 1 ns, internal and all inputs
• Jitter sensitivity: The PLL operates even at 100 ns jitter
• Seamless redundancy operation with both inputs
• TotalMix: 2048 channel mixer with 48-bit internal resolution
• TotalMix: latency-free submix and perfect ASIO direct monitoring
• Interface: USB 2.0, bus powered
• Comes with DIGICheck, RME's latest measurement, analysis and testing tool