The exciting new Babyface Pro once again demonstrates RME’s absolute commitment to superior craftsmanship, not only in audio circuits and driver development, but also in mechanics.

Created with the highest precision from a block of aluminum, this high-end yet portable interface incorporates newly designed analog and digital circuits. Its innovative energy saving technologies provide supreme fidelity with no compromises in level, noise or distortion.

Progressive Interface

For the main I/O RME have designed a completely new XLR socket, which integrates seamlessly into the housing and saves space. The two headphone outputs, offering TRS and mini-jack sockets in parallel, have completely separate driver stages to perfectly match low and high impedance headphones, guaranteeing pristine sonic results no matter what type of headphone is used.

Two digitally controlled preamps provide individually switchable 48V ‘phantom power. These brand new circuits feature a gain range of 76 dB, adjustable in steps of 1 dB, including a relay-driven PAD, resulting in exceptional EIN (Equivalent Input Noise) performance as well as line overload protection, and enough gain for even the lowest level microphones.

Babyface Pro’s incredibly efficient design almost never requires an external power supply – it’s perfectly stable on USB 3 bus power, and also most USB 2 ports, with no degradation in any technical specification. This makes it perfect for mobile recording, even with a pair of your favourite condenser microphones.

The comprehensive feature set continues with an optical TOSLINK I/O; use as either an ADAT port with SMUX support or SPDIF for sessions up to 192 kHz. In combination with an external ADAT converter, the Babyface Pro fully supports 12 analog inputs as well as 12 outputs, making it ideal for both live and studio multi-track applications. You can plug any instrument, line or high impedance, into Babyface Pro’s jack inputs 3 & 4. Record your guitar on the go, with no additional hardware required. MIDI I/O via an included breakout cable completes the package.

 

 

The comprehensive feature set continues with an optical TOSLINK I/O; use as either an ADAT port with SMUX support or SPDIF for sessions up to 192 kHz. In combination with an external ADAT converter, the Babyface Pro fully supports 12 analog inputs as well as 12 outputs, making it ideal for both live and studio multi-track applications. You can plug any instrument, line or high impedance, into Babyface Pro’s jack inputs 3 & 4. Record your guitar on the go, with no additional hardware required. MIDI I/O via an included breakout cable completes the package.

TotalMix FX delivers hardware mixing/routing with lots of new features and a highly improved usability. For a seamless integration of the new features TotalMix FX has been rewritten from the ground up. The DSP mixer now not only matches features of high-end digital consoles but even adds effects like a 3-band parametric EQ plus Low Cut on all input and output channels. The Babyface also provides a separate FX send bus for all inputs and software playback channels, feeding two effect engines: Reverb and Echo. Every output channel includes a FX return control for the FX output signal.

Features/Differences to classic TotalMix:

• New design and improved usability
• Control Room Section: Dedicated section for the main output (e. g. studio monitors) and other monitoring outputs (e. g. phones). All existing stereo output channels can be freely assigned as source for the control room section channels.
• Four definable groups for Solo, Mute and Faders
• Switchable Mono and Stereo channel view
• Channel Options: Stereo Width, MS Processing, Phase L/R
• Trim mode: Adjusts the volume for all routed signals of a channel. This option allows to modify the volume of all sends of a channel simultaneously, equalling a hardware's trim functionality.
• Unlimited Undo and Redo
• FX Sends and Returns: One send bus for every input/playback channel with Reverb/Echo
• Expandable channel view for channel settings and EQ setup
• Slim channel mode for selected or all channels, to save space or give a meter bridge view
• 2-Row Mode: reduces the height of the mixer to two rows for smaller displays

The DSP-based hardware calculates RMS and Peak levels for all channels without causing any CPU load.

Analogue AD, Microphone/Line 1-2

• Input: XLR, electronically balanced

• Signal to Noise ratio (SNR):   113 dB RMS unweighted, 116 dBA

• Frequency response @ 44.1 kHz, -0.1 dB:   10 Hz – 20.8 kHz

• Frequency response @ 96 kHz, -0.5 dB:   8 Hz – 45.8 kHz

• Frequency response @ 192 kHz, -1 dB:   5 Hz – 92 kHz

• THD: < -110 dB, < 0.00032 %

• THD+N: < -104 dB, < 0.00063 %

• THD @ 30 dB Gain: < -107 dB, < 0.0004 %

• THD+N @ 30 dB Gain: < -100 dB, < 0.001 %

• Gain range: -11 dB up to +65 dB

• Maximum input level XLR, Gain 0 dB:  +8 dBu, PAD +19 dBu

• Maximum input level XLR, Gain 65 dB:  -57 dBu, PAD -46 dBu

 

AD, Line/Instrument In 3-4

As Microphone/Line 1-2, but:

• Input: 6.3 mm TS jack, unbalanced

• Signal to Noise ratio (SNR):   114 dB RMS unweighted, 117 dBA

• Frequency response @ 44.1 kHz, -0.1 dB:   6 Hz – 20.8 kHz

• Frequency response @ 96 kHz, -0.5 dB:   3 Hz – 45.8 kHz

• Frequency response @ 192 kHz, -1 dB:   1 Hz – 92 kHz

• Maximum input level @+4 dBu, Gain 0 dB:   +13 dBu

• Maximum input level @-10 dBV, Gain 9 dB:  -5 dBu

 

DA, Line Out 1-2

• Output: XLR balanced

• Dynamic range (DR):   115 dB RMS unweighted, 118 dBA

• Frequency response @ 44.1 kHz, -0.5 dB:   2 Hz – 20.8 kHz

• Frequency response @ 96 kHz, -0.5 dB:  2 Hz – 45 kHz

• Frequency response @ 192 kHz, -1 dB:  1 Hz - 89 kHz

• THD: - 106 dB, 0.0005 %

• THD+N: -102 dB, 0.0008 %

• Output level balanced at 0 dBFS: +19 dBu

• Output level unbalanced at 0 dBFS: +13 dBu

 

DA, Phones 3/4

As DA Line Out, but:

• Output: 6.3 mm TRS jack, unbalanced

• Output impedance: 10 Ohm

• Output level at 0 dBFS, 1 kOhm load: +13 dBu

• Max power @ 0.1% THD: 50 mW

• Output: 3.5 mm TRS jack, unbalanced

• Output impedance: 2 Ohm

• Output level at 0 dBFS, 1 kOhm load: +7 dBu

• Max power @ 0.1% THD: 70 mW

 

MIDI

• 1 x MIDI I/O via breakout cable with 2 x 5-pin DIN jacks

 

Digital

• Low Jitter Design: < 1 ns in PLL mode, all inputs

• Jitter suppression of external clocks:   > 50 dB (2.4 kHz)

• Supported sample rates: 28 kHz up to 200 kHz

 

General

• Power supply:
  USB bus power or external power supply

• Dimensions (WxHxD): 
  108 x 35 x 181 mm (4.25" x 1.4" x 7.1")

• Weight: 680 g (1.5 lbs)