Front end for RME Hammerfall

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börje nilsson

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Hi!

I´m contemplating the famous RME card. But I will need an external digital mixer (including a digital converter) too of some kind that I can hook up my other digital/analog gear, including speakers and headphones, to. I haven´t found any such reasonable priced thing (RMEs own converters, for example, are no real mixers, lacking speaker and headphone plugs) -- have you?

The Yamaha 01V, to mention a digital mixer, look a bit outdated with its "20-bit, 128-times oversampling ADs on each input, 20-bit, 8-times oversampling DAs on the stereo outputs, as well as 18-bit, 8-times oversampling DAs on the Omni outputs and monitor outputs and 44-bit EQ processing" and ain´t exactly cheap either (costs about 3 times as much as the RMEcard).

As an alternative, with the soundcard Echo Layla 24 I would get the mixer and converters I need that for just a few 100 dollars more compared to just buying the Hammerfall (which, in itself, without converters and a mixer, is useless).

By the way, how many tracks of 24bit recording can I expect with a RME Hammerfall card and a Pentium III 600, 256 mb and a 7200 rpm HD?

Comments? Thanks for your time.

Henrik B
Sweden
 
Henrik - we asked the same question. We have purchased the Nuendo card with it's software cos it's a Hamerfall card with a new logo. When we looked for Converters we decided to buy the Panasonic DA7 console cos it has the 24bit converters, it interfaces to the Nuendo card with ADAT light ports, it gives us motorised faders, HUI, talkback, monitor outs etc etc yet in our money it costs only slightly more than a set of quality converters.
All the searches I did on the DA7 showed it was well received by current owners who all agreed it sounded really good, was versatile and had many goodies.

cheers
john
 
Looking at RME range too...

Ids there a big performance difference between the Hammerfall/Nuendo and the Digi 96/8 series?

I'm trying to put together a small Nuendo studio, as I record only 1 track at a time I don't share Henrik's need for an external mixer (yet).

Whatd'ya reckon, Hammerfall LE + AEB4/I

or

Digi 96/8 PAD?
 
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