RME Madiface USB

This was bought as an alternative to the digico ubmadi, and the older express card madiface, with a view to use it for archiving live shows, recorded from either digico or digidesign consoles, though will work with any madi capable unit, and for using those archived shows for virtual soundcheck possibilities while touring. This, it does flawlessly, using any of the the DAWs Ive access to, reaper, cubase, logic, and pro tools, without any issues, or glitches, in fact, less issues than my moto 828 hybrid. In addition to this work, I needed to finish mixing an ep for a band I was working with on the road, and this unit allowed me to use the live console I was touring with, coupled with Pro Tools 9HD to act like a mobile studio, and overdub a few vocals, and add some drums, all seamlessly, and on a 3 year old cheap HP laptop bought from a hughstreet chain in a hurry

Very Impressed

I bought this unit to connect my SPL Madison DA/AD converter to my computer and as expected I had no problems with it (never had any with RME gear).

The driver is super stable. I was aware that some users mentioned issues when using external clock at higher sampling frequencies, but I had no problems at all. I clocked it by Madison's internal clock and it works as stable at 96KHz as it is at 44.1KHz (never tested it at 192KHz).

There are only 2 things I don't like about this unit - there is no power switch, and there is no monitoring output. Even a simple headphone jack output would be of a great help, but there is none. Everything else is perfect.