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RME HDSPe AIO PCIe Multi-format 38-Channel Professional Audio Interface Card

The most rock-solid, lowest-latency audio interface available, perfect for lots of real-time software instruments, plugin effects, and simultaneous playback and recording. Its superior performance beats the best interfaces from Focusrite, Presonus, M-Audio, etc. Here is an in-depth, independent comparison: https://original.dawbench.com/audio-int-lowlatency.htm

RME is the only interface manufacturer to make their own circuits and drivers in-house which are the best in the industry. They support their legacy products going back decades so your investment will never be abandoned. One great feature of their amazing driver is its ability to have many separate applications (including the operating system) all access the ASIO device at the same time without conflict. Other interfaces allow only one application at a time. You can route different applications to separate channels in RME's TotalMix FX software which is incredibly flexible. TotalMix FX makes it very easy to do complex routing, loopbacks (route audio between multiple applications), separate monitor mixes, snapshots and recalls, etc.

This is the most recent hardware revision of this interface (Rev 1.4). Firmware was recently updated and is easy to update again when RME releases new firmware. I'm selling this 1 unit because I have 2 of them.

Includes:

-two ADAT optical cables

-and the breakout cable with RCA analog ins/outs, MIDI in/out, and headphone output

-- a combined $75 value

Below is the information published by RME:

Features and Specs
   - Balanced* stereo analog in- and output, 24-bit/192kHz, > 112 dB SNR
   - Optional analog expansion boards with 4 balanced in- or outputs
   - All analog I/Os capable of 192 kHz, constant number of available channels
   - 1 ADAT digital I/O, supporting 192 kHz via S/MUX4 operation
   - 1 SPDIF digital I/O, 192 kHz-capable
   - 1 AES/EBU digital I/O, 192 kHz-capable
   - 1 Stereo headphone output, separate DA-converter and playback device
   - So up to 18 inputs and 20 outputs can be used simultaneously!
   - 1 MIDI I/O with 16 channels of hi-speed MIDI via breakout cable
   - DIGICheck, RME's unique metering- and analysing tool
   - TotalMix: 760 channel Mixer with 42 bit internal resolution
   - Native PCI Express - no PCI-to-PCIe bridge used
   - 1-Lane PCI Express Endpoint device (no PCI Express to PCI Bridge), revision 1.1.
   - 2.5 Gbps line speed
   - Packet-based full-duplex communication (up to 500 MB/s transfer rate)
   - Supported sample frequencies: Internally 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz. Externally 28 kHz - 200 kHz
   - 8 buffer sizes/latencies available: 0.7 ms, 1.5 ms, 3 ms, 6 ms, 12 ms, 23 ms, 46 ms, 93 ms
   - All settings changeable in real-time
   - Automatic and intelligent master/slave clock control
   - Enhanced Mixed mode: All inputs and outputs simultaneously operational
   - TMS (Track Marker Support): Supports CD/DAT start-IDs and the read out of CD subcode
   - Unique status windows for record and playback, showing mode and sample rate
   - DIGICheck, RMEs unique metering and analysing tool
   - Digital inputs and outputs ground-free transformer coupled
   - 3-stage hardware level control for analog inputs and outputs
   - Balanced analog input and output, DC-coupled signal path
   - 192 kHz / 24-bit converters. SNR 112 dB RMS unweighted, 115 dBA
   - Maximum input and output level (0 dBFS @ HiGain): +19 dBu
   - Low impedance headphone output (30 ohm), separate DAC and playback device

- Super low jitter design: less than 1 ns in all clock modes

RME presents the world's most versatile PCI Express audio interface - the HDSPe AIO. This card makes the dream of an All-In-One solution for every possible application come true. The Advanced-Input-Output interface shines with the latest 192 kHz AD- and DA-converters, with more than 112 dB signal to noise ratio.

For the first time, all inputs and outputs are simultaneously operational, even SPDIF (phono) and AES/EBU (XLR). Additional hi-quality analog inputs and outputs can easily be added by favorably priced expansion boards. Of course TotalMix, the unsurpassed flexible routing mixer and SteadyClock, RME's sensational clock technology with maximum jitter suppression of external clock signals, are on board too. HDSPe AIO also supports the optional TCO for synchronization to timecode (LTC/video). All this combines into a professional 'soundcard' that the world has not seen before.

HDSPe AIO is the newly developed PCI Express version of the HDSP 9632. A newly developed genuine PCI Express core consequently takes full advantage of the new format, achieving significant performance gains in multitrack audio and lowest latency. Thanks to RME's secure flash update technology, firmware improvements, adjustments, and bugfixes can be installed easily at any time.

HDSPe AIO includes SteadyClock (TM), RME's own clock technology, combining professional features like maximum jitter suppression at full varipitch capabilities and software controlled sample rates.

Free Software for all RME Audio Interfaces (downloadable from RME's website): DIGICheck for Windows: Spectral Analyser, professional level meter for 2, 8, or 20 channels, Vector Audio Scope, various other audio analysis tools.