User`s guide

User’s Guide HDSP System Multiface © RME
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15. TotalMix: Routing and Monitoring
The Hammerfall DSP system includes a powerful digital real-time mixer. RME’s unique
TotalMix technology allows for nearly unlimited mixing and routing with all inputs and playback
channels simultaneously.
Here are some typical applications for TotalMix:
• setting up delay-free submixes (headphone mixes)
• unlimited routing of inputs and outputs (free utilisation, patchbay function)
• distributing signals to several outputs at a time
• simultaneous playback of different programs over only one stereo channel
• mixing of the input signal to the playback signal (complete ASIO Direct Monitoring)
• integration of external devices (effects etc). in real-time
The block diagram of the TotalMix mixer of the Multiface shows that the record signal always
stays un-altered, but can be passed on as often as desired, even with different levels. The level
meter of inputs and playback channels are connected pre-fader (due to the enormous routing
capabilities). The level meters of the hardware’s outputs are connected post-fader.