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User's Guide

Hammerfall

DSP System

HDSPe MADI FX

PCI Express Digital I/O Card

192 Channels MADI Interface

24 Bit / 192 kHz Digital Audio

AES/EBU I/O

Stereo Analog Monitoring

194 x 196 Matrix Router

MIDI I/O

MIDI embedded in MADI

TotalMix

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24 Bit / 192 kHz

SyncAlign

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ZLM

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SyncCheck

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SteadyClock

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Summary of Contents for Hammerfall HDSPe MADI FX

Page 1: ...I FX PCI Express Digital I O Card 192 Channels MADI Interface 24 Bit 192 kHz Digital Audio AES EBU I O Stereo Analog Monitoring 194 x 196 Matrix Router MIDI I O MIDI embedded in MADI TotalMix 24 Bit 1...

Page 2: ...d Firmware 10 1 Driver Installation 12 10 2 Driver Update 12 10 3 De Installing the Drivers 12 10 4 Firmware Update 13 11 Configuring the HDSPe MADI FX 11 1 Settings Dialog 14 11 2 Settings Dialog Pit...

Page 3: ...nputs and Outputs 23 Connections 23 1 MADI 36 23 2 AES EBU 36 23 3 Line Headphones 37 23 4 MIDI 37 24 Word Clock 24 1 Word Clock Input and Output 38 24 2 Technical Description and Background 39 24 3 C...

Page 4: ...ocessing 69 28 MIDI Remote Control 28 1 Overview 70 28 2 Mapping 71 28 3 Setup 71 28 4 Operation 71 28 5 MIDI Control 72 28 6 Loopback Detection 73 28 7 OSC Open Sound Control 73 Technical Reference 2...

Page 5: ...User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX RME 5 User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX General...

Page 6: ...e MADI FX BNC X expansion board Quick Info guide RME Driver CD AES MIDI breakout cable Expansion Board ribbon cable 20 conductor Internal Sync cable 3 conductor 3 System Requirements Windows XP or up...

Page 7: ...able 5 Insert the HDSPe MADI FX firmly into a free PCI Express slot press and fasten the screw 6 Insert the Expansion Board and fasten the screw 7 Replace the computer s housing 8 Reconnect all cables...

Page 8: ...DI breakout cable VKMADIFX 20 conductor flat ribbon cable ONK0100 MADI Optical Network Cable 3 3 ft 1 m ONKD0300 MADI Optical Network Cable 10 ft 3 m ONKD0600 MADI Optical Network Cable 20 ft 6 m ONKD...

Page 9: ...S DIGI96 SyncAlign ZLM SyncCheck and TotalMix are trademarks of RME Intelligent Audio Solutions Alesis and ADAT are regis tered trademarks of Alesis Corp ADAT optical is a trademark of Alesis Corp Mic...

Page 10: ...to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an...

Page 11: ...User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX RME 11 User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX Driver Installation and Operation Windows...

Page 12: ...ow follow the instructions given below 10 2 Driver Update When facing problems with the automatic driver update the user driven way of driver installa tion will work Under Control Panel System Device...

Page 13: ...ate when the flash process is finished The bar moves slowly first program then faster verify If more than one interface card is installed all cards can be flashed by changing to the next tab and repea...

Page 14: ...Latency Current sample rate Synchronization behaviour Configuration of digital I Os Input selection State of input and output Any changes made in the Settings dialog are applied immediately confirmati...

Page 15: ...If the selected source isn t available No Lock the unit will change to the next available one this behaviour is called AutoSync If none is available then the internal clock is used The current clock...

Page 16: ...ate of the current input signal Clock state No Lock Lock Sync Sample rate coarse MADI Frame format 48K or 96K Channel format 64 or 56 channels Sync Check RME s exclusive SyncCheck technology provides...

Page 17: ...his one specific card Changing the sample rate during record playback often results in a loss of audio or brings up warning messages of the audio software Therefore the desired sample rate should be s...

Page 18: ...lock status Input Status indicates whether there is a valid signal Lock No Lock for each input Word MADI AES Sync In or if there is a valid and synchronous signal Sync See chapter 30 2 Via Clock Sourc...

Page 19: ...anel Sound Playback The screenshot to the right shows a typical configuration dialog as displayed by a stereo wave editor After selecting a playback device audio data is sent to the according channels...

Page 20: ...aker of the HDSPe MADI FX in XP Control Panel Sounds and Multimedia Audio and Use only default devices has to be checked Additionally the loudspeaker setup found under Volume Speaker Settings Ad vance...

Page 21: ...the RME driver can operate as usual stereo device or as up to 8 channel device An 8 channel playback using the Windows Media Player requires the speaker setup 7 1 Sur round Configure as follows XP Co...

Page 22: ...ment If no sample frequency is recognized it will read No Lock This way configuring any suitable audio application for digital recording is simple HDSPe MADI FX displays the current sample frequency o...

Page 23: ...y that these are not the reason for such effects Another common source of trouble is incorrect synchronization ASIO does not support asyn chronous operation which means that the input and output signa...

Page 24: ...ement over detection phase correlation measure ment dynamic range and signal to noise ratios RMS to peak difference loudness long term peak measurement input check Oversampling mode for levels higher...

Page 25: ...ct Monitoring has not been enabled and or monitoring has been disabled globally wrong mix setup in TotalMix Playback works but record doesn t Check that there is a valid signal at the input If so the...

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Page 27: ...User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX RME 27 User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX Driver Installation and Operation Mac OS X...

Page 28: ...plications Totalmix Applications HDSPe FX Settings Library Audio MIDI Drivers HDSPe FX MIDI plugin System Library Extensions HDSPe_FX kext Users username Library Preferences RME TotalMix FX folder Use...

Page 29: ...uld not be changed during playback or record if it can be avoided as this can cause unwanted noises The status display at the bottom of the dialog box gives the user precise information about the curr...

Page 30: ...two other MADI ports are used as fail safe inputs and are used as soon as the signal on the Current MADI Input fails This setting is also a perfect choice if the card is used as single MADI I O saving...

Page 31: ...slave mode is that whenever the clock reference fails the system will automatically use its internal clock and operate in clock mode Master AutoSync guarantees that normal record and record while play...

Page 32: ...device is greyed out and therefore inactive Mostly removing the greyed out device and searching for MIDI devices again will solve the problem The HDSPe MIDI driver is a plugin During installation it...

Page 33: ...atency Use Speaker Setup to freely configure the playback to all available channels Even multichan nel playback Surround DVD Player can be set up this way 20 Using multiple HDSPe MADI FX OS X supports...

Page 34: ...h extended correlation analysis ITU weighting and ITU summing meter ITU1770 EBU R128 Meter For standardized loudness measurements Bit Statistics Noise Shows the true resolution of audio signals as wel...

Page 35: ...User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX RME 35 User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX Inputs and Outputs...

Page 36: ...g balanced cables with XLR plugs AES EBU and SPDIF can contain Emphasis information Audio signals with Emphasis have a strong high frequency boost requiring high frequency attenuation on playback An E...

Page 37: ...ational standards The left channel is connected to the tip the right channel to the ring of the TRS jack plug 23 4 MIDI The HDSPe MADI FX offers one MIDI I O via 5 pin DIN connectors The MIDI port is...

Page 38: ...Termina tion Output The word clock output of the HDSPe MADI FX is constantly active providing the current sample frequency as word clock signal As a result in master mode the provided word clock is d...

Page 39: ...IF 44 1 kHz word clock a simple square wave signal has to be multiplied by 256 inside the device using a spe cial PLL to about 11 2 MHz This signal then replaces the one from the quartz crystal Big di...

Page 40: ...voltage word clock networks are in some cases more stable and reliable if cables are not terminated at all Ideally all outputs of word clock delivering devices are designed with very low impedance but...

Page 41: ...User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX RME 41 User s Guide HDSPe MADI FX TotalMix FX...

Page 42: ...lso offers the most complete implementation of the ADM functions Integration of external devices Use TotalMix to insert external effects devices be it in the playback or in the record path Depending o...

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Page 44: ...er and routing field any input channel can be routed and mixed to any hardware output bottom row Middle row Playback channels playback tracks of the audio software Via fader and routing menu any playb...

Page 45: ...etection and the RMS reference can be set Fader Determines the gain level of the signal routed to the current routing destination lower label Please note that this fader is not the fader of the channe...

Page 46: ...is shown as white triangle Background TotalMix has no fixed channel fader In case of the HDSPe MADI FX there are 98 stereo Aux sends shown alternately as single fader within the channel strip The high...

Page 47: ...MS Proc Activates M S processing within the stereo channel Monaural information is sent to the left channel stereo information to the right Phase L Inverts the phase of the left channel by 180 Phase...

Page 48: ...Hi Cut low pass filter especially useful for LFE and subwoofer purposes Gain All three bands can change their amplification between 20 dB to 20 dB Freq The center frequency of the filters is adjustabl...

Page 49: ...places it is then also available in any other channel via Recall Copy between Snapshots The Presets are not saved in Snapshots therefore do not change when a different Snapshot is loaded Presets are...

Page 50: ...e for the control voltage of Compressor and Expander Adjust able from 100 ms to 999 ms The amplitude graphics give a precise overview of the level changes caused by the current settings of Compressor...

Page 51: ...dialog Speak B Switches playback from Main Out to Main Out B The faders of the channels Main and Speaker B can be ganged via Link Mono Mixes left and right channel Useful to check for mono compatibil...

Page 52: ...re a completely differently set up mixer view can be loaded via Workspace and with a single click on Undo the previous internal mixer state is returned but the new mixer view stays Global Mute Solo Fa...

Page 53: ...s Trim Gains Activates all Trim buttons on all channels TotalMix thus behaves like a conventional simple mixing desk Each fader affects all active routings of the channel simultaneously as if the fade...

Page 54: ...his they are also lost when loading a new workspace in case they have not been saved before in a different Workspace Note The Undo function will help in case of an accidental overwrite or deletion of...

Page 55: ...nel has been made invisible When the Phones output is not used this is an easy way to remove it from the mixer completely A more complex setup would be to only show all channels of the drum section th...

Page 56: ...r 1 Scroll to the desired position and perform a right mouse click on 1 A dialog comes up with precise information Once stored a left mouse click will scroll the channels to the stored position 2 Mark...

Page 57: ...und and the very long reverb times General Settings PreDelay Delay of the reverb signal Adjustable from the current buffer size some milliseconds up to 999 ms Low Cut High pass filter before the rever...

Page 58: ...ass filter Because of the operation principle of the Classic reverb it shows a slightly different behaviour Adjustable from 5 kHz up to 20 kHz Echo Activated by the On button Type Lists different echo...

Page 59: ...and loaded Save to There are 16 storage places available Reverb Echo Preset 1 to 16 Import Loads a previously stored TM FX Reverb file tmrv or a TM FX Echo file tmeo Export Stores the current state as...

Page 60: ...uchpads Dynamic Meters Compressor Expander Activates the display of the Compressor Expander s gain reduc tion as thin blue line in the level meters of the corresponding channel Include Gain setting Th...

Page 61: ...microphone in control room Default None Dim Amount of attenuation of the signals routed to the Phones in dB Listenback Input Selects the input channel of the Listenback signal microphone in recording...

Page 62: ...election in Input Playback Row Enables a selection of the submix when in first row without having to change to the third row first However when using both mono and stereo channels first and third row...

Page 63: ...X local host This address must be entered on the remote side Host Name Local computer name Port incoming Must match the remote entry Port outgoing Typical values are 7001 or 8000 Port outgoing Must ma...

Page 64: ...keyboard Dragging the mouse from a parameter field increases move up or decreases move down the value in the field Ctrl N opens the dialog Function Select to open a new TotalMix window Ctrl W opens th...

Page 65: ...o deactivate this feature for specific windows The view will not change then Preferences Opens a dialog box to configure several functions of the level meters and the mixer See chapter 25 7 Settings O...

Page 66: ...nnels Green 0 0 dB field Standard 1 1 routing Black field with number Shows the current gain value as dB Blue field This routing is muted Brown field Phase 180 inverted Dark grey field No routing To m...

Page 67: ...s In case a complex submix is need with only a few changes on a different output the whole submix can be copied to that output Right click with the mouse on the original submix output means Hardware O...

Page 68: ...sing the subgroup recording the input can still be recorded on a different channel As each of the 97 stereo hardware outputs can be routed to the record software and none of these hardware inputs get...

Page 69: ...e for microphones which results in a mid signal on one channel and a side signal on the other channel This information can be trans formed back into a stereo signal quite easily The process sends the...

Page 70: ...otalMix supports the following Mackie Control surface elements Element Meaning in TotalMix Channel faders 1 8 volume Master fader Main Out channel fader SEL 1 8 DYNAMICS Activate Trim mode V Pots 1 8...

Page 71: ...easily changed via MIDI Full LC Display Support This option in Preferences F3 activates complete Mackie Control LCD support with eight channel names and eight volume pan values When Full LC Display Su...

Page 72: ...e Phones 1 3F 63 D 4 Cue Phones 2 40 64 E 4 Cue Phones 3 41 65 F 4 Cue Phones 4 42 66 F 4 Snapshot 1 36 54 F 3 Snapshot 2 37 55 G 3 Snapshot 3 38 56 G 3 Snapshot 4 39 57 A 3 Snapshot 5 3A 58 A 3 Snaps...

Page 73: ...wiring and setup will cause a MIDI feedback loop here which then completely blocks the computer the CPU To prevent the computer from freezing TotalMix sends a special MIDI note every 0 5 seconds to it...

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Page 76: ...ter suppression 30 dB 2 4 kHz Word Clock BNC not terminated 10 kOhm Switchable internal termination 75 Ohm Automatic Double Quad Speed detection and conversion to Single Speed SteadyClock guarantees s...

Page 77: ...el 0 dBFS 13 dBu 29 3 Digital Clocks Internal MADI In Word Clock In AES In Low jitter design 1 ns in PLL mode all inputs Internal clock 800 ps jitter random spread spectrum Jitter suppression of exter...

Page 78: ...anced coaxial cables with 75 Ohms BNC plugs they are not expensive and easy to get The optical interface is much more interesting due to its complete galvanic separation but for many users it is a mys...

Page 79: ...it is Master too and thus slightly higher or lower than the HDSPe MADI FX internal sample rate Result When reading out the data there will frequently be read errors that cause clicks and drop outs Al...

Page 80: ...er sampling plus digital filtering in order to move the error prone analog filters away from the au dible frequency range as far as possible This typically generates a delay of one millisecond A playb...

Page 81: ...vailable that could receive or transmit more than 48 kHz Therefore a work around was used instead of two channels one AES line only carries one channel whose odd and even samples are being distributed...

Page 82: ...channel requires two AES EBU lines stereo requires even four This transmission mode is being called Quad Wire in the professional studio world The AES3 specification does not mention Quad Wire With M...

Page 83: ...ectly within a range of 25 kHz up to 200 kHz SteadyClock has originally been de veloped to gain a stable and clean clock from the heavily jittery MADI data signal The embedded MADI clock suffers from...

Page 84: ...mode When used with the ADAT format the term S MUX is commonly used Double Wire not only works with Single Speed signals but also with Double Speed As an ex ample Pro Tools HD whose AES receiver tran...

Page 85: ...FX RME 85 30 8 Connector Pinout Pin assignment of the 9 pin D type connector breakout cable MIDI AES Pin Name Pin Name Pin Name 1 MIDI In 4 4 AES Out 7 MIDI Out 5 2 MIDI Out 4 5 GND 8 AES In 3 AES In...

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