RME HDSPE AoX-D (Dante)

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Delivery Methods and Timescales

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Royal Mail – First Class Recorded Delivery*

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*Only available on orders with a value of less than £50

Courier – Next Working Day Service

  • Price = Free (Orders of £50+) / £9.95 (Orders of less than £50)
  • Delivery Time – Next working day from date of dispatch (see above)

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  • Price = £9.95 (Orders of £50+) / £19.95 (Orders of less than £50)
  • Delivery Time – Next working day from date of dispatch (see above). 

Courier – Saturday Delivery Service

  • Price = £19.95
  • Delivery Time – The first Saturday following date of dispatch (see above). Note that for guaranteed Saturday delivery, orders must be placed before 2pm on the Friday. Orders placed after 2pm may still arrive on Saturday, but this cannot be guaranteed.

Due to the nature of the products we sell, we operate a strict fraud screening process and therefore we are only able to deliver to the billing address.

In the event of a delay, we will contact you either by email or telephone as soon as reasonably possible.

While 99% of UK locations are valid for next day/Saturday delivery, there are a few remote locations which are not covered.

Synthax Audio (UK) cannot deliver outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland*.

*RME products cannot be shipped to the Republic of Ireland.

 

Missed Deliveries

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Late Deliveries or Dispatch

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There are also rare cases, beyond our control, when the delivery company itself has a problem which causes a delay in transit. In these situations we will do our utmost to liaise with the relevant delivery company to ensure delivery is completed as swiftly as possible.

Consequential Loss for Late Deliveries

If a delivery is late, then we will provide a refund of any delivery fee that we charged you. We do not provide financial compensation to cover consequential losses, e.g. for time taken off work to receive a delivery, or if the item is intended as a gift and you have to purchase the same item from a more expensive retailer.

 

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512-Channel Dante® & MADI
PCI Express Sound Card

Preliminary information - More info coming soon!

Available to pre-order. Expected Q4 2024.

  •  512-Channel Dante® PCIe Sound Card
  •  512 inputs / 512 outputs (Dante®)
  •  Optional: 128 inputs / 128 outputs (MADI) via option cards (sold separately)*
  •  2-ch Headphone Output
  • 2 AES I/O (via breakout cable)
  •  256-Channel TotalMix engine
  •  Compatible with MacOS and Windows

  • * Total number of channels remains at 512 

Description

RME HDSPe AoX-D (Dante)

The RME HDSPe AoX cards once again set the reference for high performance audio interfaces. Available as a Dante® version with 512 x 512 channels and as a Milan® version with 128 x 128 channels, these cards leverage RME’s renowned driver architecture to bring high channel counts to any DAW – along with a 256-channel TotalMix™ engine, RME’s FPGA-based super low latency hardware mixer.

Occupying only a single slot, the PCIe x4 interface transmits and receives up to 512 channels of network audio signals on two separate gigabit Ethernet ports. The network audio channels can partially be replaced (or extended in case of the Milan® version) with MADI signals by adding up to two optional dual optical SFP or dual coaxial extension cards.

It is therefore possible to integrate four MADI input signals, four MADI output signals plus up to 256 network audio channels per direction within a single audio interface for the first time – on macOS® and Windows®.

In comparison to these massive channel counts, the ¼” stereo headphone jack occupies a lot of space on the card – and for good reason, because it allows engineers to monitor any signal reaching the card: from the computer, the network, or the optional MADI inputs.

And to add one more signal to the mix – a stereo AES3 digital I/O is available together with MIDI on a breakout cable, making it a versatile and full-fledged professional interface.

A word clock input/output port is available on the MADI option cards.

RME HDSPe AoX-D Signal Flow Diagram (click to enlarge)

(Up to 256 audio channels can be passed to and from the TotalMix software mixer.)

 

Managing High Channel Counts

The vast number of channels can be managed by the user via the driver’s software dialog, which includes a routing matrix that creates the connections between hardware I/O and software I/O, offering a lot of flexibility.

First, the user selects which 256 channels to send to TotalMix (pictured), which provides powerful features such as level metering, preset management, layouts, sub-mixes, loopback and more. An additional 256 channels can be selected by the user to be passed straight through to the DAW, meaning a total of 512 channels are visible for recording.

Then, the user selects which channels – again 256 from TotalMix and an additional 256 channels straight from the DAW – should be sent to the card’s hardware outputs.

Higher sampling rates are supported with corresponding reduction of channel count: half at 96 kHz, a quarter at 192 kHz, except for the Milan version that supports 128 channels at 96 kHz and 64 channels at 192 kHz.

Both cards can also be installed in external Thunderbolt™ enclosures as a perfect addition to mobile recording setups, or installed in common DAWs or audio processors.

 

Optional: MADI I/O Expansion Cards

The RME HDSPe AoX-M can be expanded with up to 2 x RME AoX MADI Expansion Cards, available with coaxial BNC connectors or optical SFP modules:

 

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