rme hammerfall cards

[lokki]

hi there,

first post...great site!
so i just wanted to make sure you're all aware of the great audio interfaces by rme. the hammerfall series uses pci cards (or cardbus for laptops) that work perfectly well in os9 (the drivers can still be downloaded from rme) they can be bought cheaply (100-200$) over ebay and are really great cards with hardware monitoring and a totalmix application. check them out!


http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_9652.php
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_downloads_driver_archive.php
http://www.rme-audio.de/download/treiber_archiv/m96_16.sit
http://www.rme-audio.de/download/treiber_archiv/m9652_161.sit
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep99/articles/rmehammer.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul03/articles/rmehammerfall.asp

[Protools5LEGuy]

Welcome MacOS9Lives! Tell us about totalMIX advantages!

[lokki]

well you can route everything everywhere with total mix (any hardware input to any output) you have subgroups and you can safe your "mixes" it happens all on the hardware and there is zero cpu used. you can unplug the interface and still use it in this configuration without a computer.

[Protools5LEGuy]

well you can route everything everywhere with total mix (any hardware input to any output) you have subgroups and you can safe your "mixes" it happens all on the hardware and there is zero cpu used. you can unplug the interface and still use it in this configuration without a computer.

It was pci+rack? Or pci alone? RME ADI cost more than 100-200 bucks

[DieHard]

I remember way back... I was beta testing Nuendo 1.52 for Mac OS and Nuendo for PC for Steinberg and RME sent me a Prototype (think i was a 9652) PCI card...

They sent 2 EPROM's that I would swap on the card (1 for PC, 1 for Mac) and I tested that card straight for about 5 weeks... the tracks it produced were so clear (no digital "smearing/jitter"); the bass warmth & response far exceeded all other cards we were testing at the time (Delta series, motu, etc.); It was, by far, the winner in in all categories as far as driver stability & the quality of recordings (D/A converters are awesome... probably only surpassed by Apogee at the time).

I would recommend an RME interface to anyone that can afford one, they have come down so much over the years... an 8 track "Multiface" with a PCI card will set you back about $350 to $400 on ebay these days, but that was a fraction of the original cost.

if you are a very serious producer under OS 9 and want to multitrack a few instruments at a time then RME is for you...

if you are a solo artist on a budget, the M-Audio 2496 is still the clear winner ($89 to $99), great converters, MIDI included, 2 track analog or 4 track using analog and digital ins at the same time)

[lokki]

i was talking about the multiface and the digiface, they have a cardbus adapter and a pci adapter (and also pci-express and expresscard). i bought a digiface with pci card last year on ebay for 130 euro, and it wasn't the cheapest auction. i already own a multiface for 10 years. they're great cards, sturdy with midi in/out and word clock. and, they work with linux osx, windows, os9...

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep02/articles/audiolink.asp

[DieHard]

I never tested a Digiface.... but I used a Multiface with a PCI card and with a PCMCIA Cardbus 32 (on a laptop for mixing).  The RME stuff, as you mentioned, has superior clocks compared to the Motu and M-Audio stuff... I also got my hands on a NUENDO AUDIOLINK 96 (a re-labeled Multiface, same interface) and used it on a PC based Dual PIII back in the day and it rocked !

[supernova777]

ive always been intrigued by this card yet put out by the price.
but i kind of  think this is one thats worth the price tag in terms of drivers +stability
it works with win98 + os9 and pretty much any os.. also mac osx
i bet u this card works 100% in any osx machine, intel (hackintosh)
just like the motu pci-424/324's have an intel osx driver

one day i hope to get my hands on a hammerfall card!