RME Fireface 400

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:41 pm

Has anyone who owns a fireface400 noticed how warm these little badboys can get, just want to know if others are felling the heat....Also have you figured out the audio routing in cubase if you use it....

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:52 pm

frisbeedisk wrote:Has anyone who owns a fireface400 noticed how warm these little badboys can get, just want to know if others are felling the heat....Also have you figured out the audio routing in cubase if you use it....

Hmm, I am thinking of getting one as soon as I find a reputable dealer in the US that has them in stock. What's your experience so far (latency, CPU load)?

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:16 pm

Amazingly good...As all the processing is done within the card and not in the computer like some i know (firewire 410) it has no dent on the computers cpu and as fro latency, ive had itright down to 48 samples which is like 1ms..

Sound quality is to die for, im hearing sounds on old songs, my external synths that ive never heard before, plus ive just played a festival with it and the sound over the system was amazing....

i recomend..the routing is a bit fiddly in cubase though, i guess i'll get the hang of it quite soon.....

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:22 pm

frisbeedisk wrote:Amazingly good...As all the processing is done within the card and not in the computer like some i know (firewire 410) it has no dent on the computers cpu and as fro latency, ive had itright down to 48 samples which is like 1ms..

Sound quality is to die for, im hearing sounds on old songs, my external synths that ive never heard before, plus ive just played a festival with it and the sound over the system was amazing....

ah, just what I wanted to hear..

Are you on a mac or a pc?
And... what festival? Did you feed multiple busses into the venue's board?

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:33 pm

Im running the card on PC, with no problems with tthe install...I was playing at the WIckerman Festival in Scotland, great fes very much free for all, the dance tents etc play on until 6am.....My feed was a stereo pair into the front of house desk...

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:46 pm

I have a multiface II and even my thing turns *really* hot afer half an hour or so, I guess it's the same by all the RME stuff... do not worry about the heat!

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:03 pm

minimal wrote:I have a multiface II and even my thing turns *really* hot afer half an hour or so, I guess it's the same by all the RME stuff... do not worry about the heat!

Cheers Minimal....was just getting a wee bit worried there....

TheAnimal · Post by **TheAnimal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:20 pm

minimal wrote:I have a multiface II and even my thing turns *really* hot afer half an hour or so, I guess it's the same by all the RME stuff...

Same here with a Fireface 800. Especially now in the summer it gets quite hot on the right side (were the power supply should probably be).

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:55 pm

Finally got my FF400 this morning. I must say I am really impressed, was a bit skeptical about firewire performance, but this thing really delivers. And she's such a cutie... I think I'm in love!

divonic · Post by **divonic** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:10 pm

ilia wrote:Finally got my FF400 this morning. I must say I am really impressed, was a bit skeptical about firewire performance, but this thing really delivers. And she's such a cutie... I think I'm in love!

plus they have amazing expansion capibilities via the ability to link more than one and 16 I/O via lightpipe. WOW

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:44 pm

ilia wrote:Finally got my FF400 this morning. I must say I am really impressed, was a bit skeptical about firewire performance, but this thing really delivers. And she's such a cutie... I think I'm in love!

Its an amazing bit of gear eh...Still hearing loads of news sounds

invol · Post by **invol** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:18 am

I have the fireface 800, got it a few months ago... best purchase I've made in many, many years... the 400 is basically the same with less IO and few minor feature differences....

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:06 am

The Fireface is a completly new bit of gear and not the little brother of the 800..new jitter free electronics and matrix system...better than the 800...

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:55 am

frisbeedisk wrote:The Fireface is a completly new bit of gear and not the little brother of the 800..new jitter free electronics and matrix system...better than the 800...

well, not necessarily better, just a little different...

but I love the compactness of it, yes.

btw, I noticed that after a reboot the preamps reset to 0db gain, even if you save a different setting in flash. does that happen to you? seems like a bug.

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:28 pm

ilia wrote: btw, I noticed that after a reboot the preamps reset to 0db gain, even if you save a different setting in flash. does that happen to you? seems like a bug.

Are you talking about the input gains on the fireface settings or the faders on the fireface mixer

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