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Hi everyone,

Some people asked me for RME Hammerfall experiences, so here it is!

My system: PC, Celeron 500 Mhz, 27.3 Gb Western Digitals ATA66 harddrive
(7200 tours/2048 cache, ATA66 works great), 128 Ram, Abit BP6
motherboard and ATI XPert@Work 8 Mb PCI videocard. Unitor8 midi
interface, Win98 Second edition and Logic Platinum. Latest drivers of
everything.

Well, I plugged the Hammerfall in the computer and booted: Win98 asked
for a driver. I pointed to the directory with the latest driver and the
Hammerfall was installed. I tried it out with Logic and Soundforge and
it worked perfectly from the very first time. Soundforge uses the MME
drivers and Logic uses the ASIO drivers... all of this automatically
(except for selecting an audio driver once in Logic, which is normal)
without having to do anything. The Hammerfall is digitally connected
over ADAT with a Ramsa DA7 digital mixing desk. The Ramsa is the
wordclock master: once again: I left everything on factory settings and
it worked at once!

It sounds crystal clear as expected and I didn't change anything in the
Hammerfall driver settings. There's a small icon in the taskbar. This
icon lets's you control all Hammerfall features like ASIO buffer etc. I
left everything as it was which means the ASIO buffer is 2048 (46 ms).

The Hammerfall was VERY easy to install, is clean, efficient and
professional. I'm very happy with it and I'll keep it (I was still not
sure whether to choose the Sonorus Studi/o or this Hammerfall but I'll
keep the Hammerfall). I'm a VERY happy user and I love it when things
work in 5 minutes! I can recommend this system to everyone who wants to
be up-and-running in 10 minutes! Works like a charm!!!!

And as for the speed of my system... I'm running 8 mono 16bit audio
files (8 tracks) right now with on each one insert plugin (autofilter,
3x platinumverb, spectral gate etc etc... all the heavy ones) and the
system performance in Logic shows that it consumes a little more than
half of my CPU and almost nothing of disk I/O.
I wanted to push it to the limit: the same 8 tracks with again the
plugins as inserts: here's the maximum I get: 6 platinum reverbs and one
gold reverb. And in the meanwhile I'm still typing this mail... :-)
OK, next test: changing the ASIO buffer to its maximum 8291 (186 ms or
so): same tracks: 7 platinum reverbs and one silver reverb. Niiiice....
:-) when trying to type this mail in the meanwhile, I got my very first
CPU too slow message. :-)

OK, this was just trying things out... let's now get into "real" musical
mode! :-)

Ciao,
Joeri

P.S.: If I knew how to install everything from the first time (like the
ATA66 etc), then I could have gotten everything to work in less than 3
hours (hardware installing + software installing + Win98 tuning). If
you're on a tight schedule and still want to switch to a new system, I
recommend my system. For more info, don't hesitate to mail me.
--
Joeri Vankeirsbilck
joeri@...

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