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http://www.rme-audio.com/english/download/drivers.htm

Just found out last night that for the first time in over 14 months, RME has new firmware and drivers for the Multiface and Cardbus. The read-me says significant performance increases, and an option now for 32byte buffer, bringing latency down to 0.7ms. Yes, that's less than 1ms.

nebulae wrote:bringing latency down to 0.7ms. Yes, that's less than 1ms.

Gadzooks! I might pick up an RME before I head overseas... Do those drivers (and the resultant increase in performance) also apply to the Fireface 400 as well, or the cardbus multiface II?

Man, I'm so scared of messing up with things working on my setup... one time I had to send my cardbus to german because of a bad firmware install...

Nebulae, did you test the new firmware and drivers yet?

Let me know if everything is solid as always.

thkx

To answer your questions, this update only applies to Cardbus and other PCI based RME products, not the firewire ones.

As for testing, I loaded the firmware and new drivers no problem. I have not tested a heavy project at 32bytes yet, but I'll try. The notes say that the previous drivers showed crackles and sterss at 60% cpu, which is consistent with my experience...the new drivers can go past 90%...so some really decent efficiency....

It took a year for the update, so I'm glad it was worth the wait. Also, this update is for Vista and 64-bit Windoze Ops.

Do you have the "flat", older cardbus, or the new one?
I read that the older ones could have problems when updating.

Apart from that, I'd like to test this new firmware.

Not sure what you mean by "flat". My cardbus is pretty old...about 3 years old. The card flash failed the first time, so I just hit the "Flash" button again, and it wrote the card flash just fine the second time. I rebooted...it asked for new drivers, so I pointed to the new drivers. Done deal.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/cardpci.htm

the older is flat, see below.
I guess I'll take a risk then...

thnx nebulae

yeah, that's the one I have. you should have no problems. Report back and let us know if you can achieve 0.7ms of latency! that's just sick!!

Oh man !! You're posting fabulous news!!
more efficency, latency down to under 1 ms, recordbuffer to capture audio even when the cpu hits 100+ % YESSS! I really love my multiface. Thanks for posting this, mate!

well don't get so hyped on the marketing - test for yourself and let us know how low you can get your latency

looking foreward to hearing about the actual latency capabilities...
been waiting for the expresscard adaptor, now this good news...
my future setup is looking better and better, worse and worse for my wallet...

I can confirm that the latest drivers are excellent; on my new lappie, I can run the Live 5 performance test at 32 samples and CPU is around 30%. This is serious kick ass.

just as a heads up, i started experiencing random shut downs of my g4 after installing the ff400 divers about a week ago. only seemed to happen when playing in live, didn't happen in "normal" i.e. sitting idle or just listening to i-tunes. also not sure if it's directly related to the firmware update (os x), but started happening just after i installed the driver updates. as usual it happened twice then stopped, but i admit i havn't been using it as much the last week (physics homework over live, i'm afraid), but just thought i'd put it out there.

nebulae wrote:I can confirm that the latest drivers are excellent; on my new lappie, I can run the Live 5 performance test at 32 samples and CPU is around 30%. This is serious kick ass.

holy mother of god. am I dreaming? 32 samples. no farging way. even more efficiency? the team at rme have been drinking the coffee.

there is no competition.

you would have to be insane not to get a rme card now.

when are those intel mac drivers coming out???? (see hint on rme newsgroup...)

anyone got the duel express card adapter yet? time to place an order...

caramba!

is this one? (sorry i always make a mess with the rme page)

hdsp_wdm_302.zip New WDM streaming driver for the whole Hammerfall DSP System. WDM, WDM-KS, GSIF and ASIO for PCI and CardBus cards, Digiface, Multiface, HDSP 9652, HDSP 9632, HDSP AES-32, HDSP MADI and RPM, version 3.02, 03/21/2007.