User`s guide

User's Guide HDSP AES-32 © RME
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19.3 Supported Sample Rates
RME's Mac OS X driver supports all sampling frequencies provided by the hardware. This in-
cludes 32 kHz and 64 kHz, and even 128 kHz, 176.4 kHz and 192 kHz.
But not any software will support all the hardware's sample rates. The hardware's capabilities
can easily be verified in the Audio MIDI Setup. Select Audio devices under Properties of:
and choose the Hammerfall. A click on Format will list the supported sample frequencies.
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 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 HDSP 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.