User`s guide
User's Guide HDSP MADI © RME
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19.4 Repairing Disk Permissions 
Repairing permission can solve problems with the installation process - plus many others. To do 
this, launch Disk Utility located in Utilities. Select your system drive in the drive/volume list to 
the left. The First Aid tab to the right now allows you to check and repair disk permissions. 
19.5 Various Information 
The driver requires 10.2.8 or higher. Older versions of OS X are not and will not be supported. 
Via >System Preferences/ Audio-MIDI Setup< the hardware can be configured for the system 
wide usage. Programs that don't support card or channel selection will use the device selected 
as Standard-Input and Standard-Output. (Soundstudio, Mplayer, Amplitube etc.). 
In the lower part of the window, the audio hardware's capabilities are shown and can be 
changed in some cases. On the record side no changes are possible. Programs that don't sup-
port channel selection will always use channels 1/2, the first stereo pair. 
Since OS X 10.3 playback can be configured freely and to any of the available playback chan-
nels. This is done via Speaker Setup. Even multichannel playback (Surround, DVD Player) can 
be set up easily. 
20. Using more than one HDSP System 
OS X supports more than one audio device. Since 10.4 (Tiger) Core Audio offers the function 
Aggregate Devices, which allows to combine several devices into one, so that a multi-device 
operation is now possible with any software. 
The Hammerfall DSP driver adds a number to each unit, so they are fully accessible in any 
multicard-capable software. 
Note
: TotalMix is part of the hardware of each HDSPe system. Up to three mixers are available, 
but these are separated and can't interchange data. Therefore a global mixer for all units is not 
possible. 










