Does anyone else here own a RME Hammerfall card?

[enemyofthesun]

I have the 24 channel one. The model that is a card and a little daughter card. 24 optical channels in and out..

I have some questions how to set it up. Ive had it for quite awhile now and have yet to get it set up properly.

Is there a user forum out there somewhere for thee cards?

 

[skippy]

Yup. I have one. Use it with Cubase VST32 V5R6, to fly tracks up and down from my D1624. It was pretty easy and straightforward to set up, since I use the D1624 as the master word clock source for my whole rig (since it has the converters in it), and slave everything to it.

I very much like the Hammerfall: as advertised, the thing is absolutely dead-nuts bombproof (now that I have a semi-reliable Cubase, anyway...). Shoot, a few days ago I even tracked some stuff straight to Cubase, just using the D1624 in record-pause only as a converter box, instead of printing to its internal drive and flying down later. That was something I'd sworn that I'd never do...

I don't know of a user forum, but the RME website has a great deal of information: http://www.rme-audio.com/english/index.htm

Although, perversely, that site now shows up as a 404. I suspect that that's just a temporary glitch, though- keep checking it over the coming days. Probably somebody just forgot to pay the registry fee...

If you're having problems, I'd bet a beer that it's probably with clock generation and sync. What's up?

 

[enemyofthesun]

ok thanks for the quick reply... dumb question..

how do I hear the audio? Sound card installed in the same system?

 

[skippy]

Use an external converter. For a long time, I had an Audiophile 2496 card that I used for that: it lived in the system, but I didn't use its PCI interface for audio (only for midi). Cubase knew about its MIDI interface, but was set up to use the Hammerfall as the audio interface.

Instead, I configured the Audiophile's AD/DA converters to listen only to its SPDIF ins/outs, which I then interconnected to the Hammerfall's SPDIF I/O. That way, I could monitor to SPDIF on the Hammerfall, and the Audiophile would grab that and convert it to analog audio to drive the monitors. YOu could do this with any equiment with an SPDIF in- a DAT or MD deck, yadda yadda...

The Audiphile was too noisy, so I replaced it with a Midiman Flying Cow. Set up your converter box to get sync from the SPDIF in, and you're good to go.