Hammerfall HDSP 9652

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I ran across this on the RME website. Its a recent card they call the Hammerfall HDSP 9652. It is supposedly their latest iteration of the Hammerfall series although I have not found where to purchase one yet.

Per the white paper (see on the RME website) they claim it is much more flexible because they custom programmed a FPGA chip instead of the typical DSP chip most everything else uses today.

For those of you think FPGA means something to do with womens golf, it means something like FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY so this implies that their engineers write much of the custom code inside the chip themselves rather than depend upon fixed libraries of algorythyms as would be found inside a DSP. This begs the question of whether this would make for a more buggy design....

Acording to what I read, it has 3 ADAT and a S/PDIF. Can support multiple virtual channels turning your DAW into the Grand Central Station of DAWs.

Anyone know of this RME card and its reputation out there?
 
It's EXCELLENT.... I use the 96/36 - which is the 2 ADAT I/O version.......
 
I use the former version, the Hammerfall digi9652. It is almost the same, except for the Totalmixer function and midi. Got 3 ADAT io, spdif, wordclock and adat sync. It can use 12 channels at 24/96.

RME has a solid reputation. An FPGA has to be bug free or it does not work. It is not a general processor chip that can run software, it is a chip where the hardware inside can be programmed. The advantage is that once it runs, timing is completely under control and fixed.

It is already listed at http://www.musicians-gear.com/ same price as the old hammerfall 9652.
 
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