User`s guide

User's Guide Babyface © RME

9. Operation and Usage

9.1 Playback

In the audio application being used, Babyface must be selected as output device. It can often

be found in the Options, Preferences or Settings menus, as Playback Device, Audio Devices,

Audio etc.

We recommend switching all system sounds off (via >Control Panel /Sound<). Also Babyface

should not be the Preferred Device for playback, as this could cause loss of synchronization

and unwanted noises. If you feel you cannot do without system sounds, you should consider

using the on-board sound device or buying a cheap Blaster clone and select this as Preferred

Device in >Control Panel /Multimedia /Audio< or >Control Panel /Sound /Playback<.

The screenshot shows a typical configuration dialog. After selecting a device, audio data is sent

to an analog or digital port, depending on which has been selected as playback device.

Increasing the number and/or size of audio buffers may prevent the audio signal from breaking

up, but also increases latency i.e. output is delayed. For synchronized playback of audio and

MIDI (or similar), be sure to activate the checkbox ‘Get position from audio driver’.

Note on Windows Vista/7

Since Vista the audio application can no longer control the sample rate under WDM. Instead the

user has to work himself through numerous settings (up to 32 with a MADI card!), and to set the

sample rate to the same value per stereo device.

Therefore the driver of the Babyface includes a workaround: the sample rate can be set globally

for all WDM devices within the Settings dialog, see chapter 8.1.