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Topic: PCIe MADI FX + 2 PCIe AES cards - Unified drivers?

Apologies if this has been addressed already.

If I build a config based on 1 MADI FX and 2 AES (all PCIe cards), will I have access to all these channels through the unified ASIO driver ?

Thanks!
Thomas

Sequenza Studios - Acoustic Recordings
http://www.sequenza.fr

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Re: PCIe MADI FX + 2 PCIe AES cards - Unified drivers?

There is no 'unified' driver for these two products.

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Matthias Carstens
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Re: PCIe MADI FX + 2 PCIe AES cards - Unified drivers?

OK, so just to be crystal clear: 2x PCIe AES cards can work under the unified driver (correct?), but not with MADI FX, do we agree?

Also, before making a wrong purchase: could 1x PCIe MADI (no FX!)+ 2x PCIe AES work under the unified driver ?

Thanks

Sequenza Studios - Acoustic Recordings
http://www.sequenza.fr

4 Reply by ramses (edited by ramses 2017-06-26 21:30:52)

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Re: PCIe MADI FX + 2 PCIe AES cards - Unified drivers?

Sequenza wrote:

OK, so just to be crystal clear: 2x PCIe AES cards can work under the unified driver (correct?), but not with MADI FX, do we agree?

Also, before making a wrong purchase: could 1x PCIe MADI (no FX!)+ 2x PCIe AES work under the unified driver ?

Thanks

Look under the driver download page: https://archiv.rme-audio.de/downloads/driver/hdspe.php

There you can see which of those devices use the same driver:

a) driver_hdsp_win_###.zip for these cards:
HDSP/HDSPe MADI, AES, RayDAT, 9632, 9652, AIO, MADIface, Multiface, Digiface, RPM

b) driver_pciefx_win_###.zip for these cards:
HDSPe MADI FX, MADIface XT (E-PCIe)

So "HDSPe MADI" (no FX) and "HDSPe AES" use the same driver so it should be possible to access all I/O ports in your DAW by using the driver "driver_hdsp_win...."

In this case it helps to find this out if you use the real product names like i.e. "HDSPe MADI" instead of "PCIe MADI".

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13
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Re: PCIe MADI FX + 2 PCIe AES cards - Unified drivers?

Thanks for the detailed answer and correction on proper naming.

Best,
Thomas

Sequenza Studios - Acoustic Recordings
http://www.sequenza.fr