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Old 2nd September 2012   #1
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Advises regarding RME Babyface investment
Hello

New guy here on GS, recently purchased an iMac 27" i7 for the purpose of recording some small arrangements with guitar, synth keyboard and vocals.

I never had any USB/firewire sound cards before, but now I´m ready to take the next step having the iMac ready to roll.

I´m mostly fund of the RME Babyface at the time, with the Midi-option that Apogee Duet 2 doesn´t have. I want the excellent sound quality like these units have, but I´m doubting whether to get these small units or going for RME Fireface 400, Focusrite for example.

For now, I´m not expecting to record with guitar amp (just sold mine to buy iMac), so instead just use different software in Logic Pro.

What do you think my needs would go best with of sound cards? Most important I want to have quality sound.
My budget will be around 800-900$.
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The babyface is a awesome unit the sound is in the same league of the duet but it includes midi and adat connection and better drivers/software you will be happy
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If my choice was between the Babyface and the FF400, I would pick the Babyface because it is several years newer in design, and includes the FX section of TotalMix which the FF400 will never have. I am an RME fan, my main rig is RME, I've owned several over the years and never needed to replace one, never had one fail and always got superior support from the folks at RME on the rare occasion when I needed some. The issue for me would be expandability.. will the Babyface suit your future needs far enough out to recoup the investment. So long as you don't anticipate needing more than the input channel limitation number, you should be golden.
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Many thanks for the response. Yeah, I also think Babyface would be a great buy, TotalMix and Midi is defenitely reasons why I will choose it over Duet.
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Old 18th September 2012   #5
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Hey, I have another question

Well...been searching the market some more, and these great 200-300$ DI boxes seems very attractive too.
Some say that they sound better than babyface when used with guitar amp sims...hmm :-/

But I will also be using midi a lot. Can you have a midi through box (or something similar) connected via the DI box, and then the DI box connected to a computer so I can record guitar and midi in Logic Pro like the Babyface?
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