User Manual

User's Guide Babyface Pro FS © RME

9. Operation and Usage

9.1 Playback

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

often be found in the Options, Preferences or Settings menus, as Playback Device, Audio De-

vices, Audio etc.

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

Pro 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

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

Therefore the driver of the Babyface Pro includes a way to set the sample rate globally for all

WDM devices within the Settings dialog, see chapter 8.1.