I didn't see this posted anywhere already, but when I saw "balanced I/O" I immediately checked the price...bit steep though at around 600 Euro yet doesn't have Firewire. The VGA plug break-out cable will make DIY dead easy though, and it's not recessed like the Duet's.

From: RME Delivers Babyface Audio Interface

RME has announced the impending delivery of Babyface, a new 22-channel portable USB 2.0 audio interface. Babyface sports digitally controlled mic preamps, instrument input, ADAT, S/PDIF and MIDI ports. The built-in TotalMix FX DSP mixer includes high-quality EQ, delay and reverb for tracking and monitoring.

Sample rates up to 192 kHz

Analog I/O x2

Mic/Line preamp x2, digitally controlled

Alternate Instrument Input

Stereo Headphone Output

ADAT I/O

S/PDIF optical port (switchable with ADAT I/O)

MIDI port

USB 2.0 port

Edited April 16, 201016 yr by Currawong
Fixed the images.

gotta love marketspeak. Because it has adat IO, it claims 22 channels (2 spdif out, 8 adat in, 8 adat out, 2 analog in, 2 analog out). MIDI is a nice addition, tho

I don't know anything about ADAT, but it does look like the tried to include everything but the kitchen sink just about.

Including a baby's face.

sweet it's mac and pc Color me interested.

if it sounds like the FW400 I'd pass but maybe they've made some improvements

firewire 400 is too slow?

firewire 400 is too slow?

Doubt it. I think most modern Macs are on FW800 now.

ahh, that would be a problem

No it isn't. Fw400 works on 800 ports

oh, so it wouldnt be a problem

so whats the problem here?

Edited April 17, 201016 yr by jinp6301

They didn't end up including the babies' faces.

sorry for the derail I meant the RME Fire Face 400, this was their stand alone fire wire solution that I owned for about 5 minutes as it sucked balls sonically and quit working on day one