RME Digiface USB as a digital mixer & router for my home office stereo setup? (How close can I get?)

[voodooless]

My question now is about whether the ADI-2 Pro can be a slave to a Digiface that is being the master clock? And if it can, does the answer change if the ADI-2 Pro is also connected by USB to a host PC or Mac?

From the manual it seems it can work either way: use one of the digital inputs at clock source, or enable ASRC to decouple the clock domains.

 

[MCH]

@rcstevensonaz I also hate when people don't answer my question but suggest "and why don't you...". So my apologies first and here it goes anyways.
You could also stream each of your sources (I use RPi w/ LMS) and use a streamer or RPi at each receiving point. You can apply EQ at origin (Lms) or at the receiving end (camilladsp). And you save a lot of cables.
If you do it on zero 2w, it can be very economical too.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

From the manual it seems it can work either way: use one of the digital inputs at clock source, or enable ASRC to decouple the clock domains.

Thanks! When I did a quick search, I saw a comment that the ADI-2 Pro would revert to USB as the highest priority master clock, and would override the selection of input device as clock as master. That said, your observation that ASRC is there for the input devices means that isn't a critical issue.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

@rcstevensonaz I also hate when people don't answer my question but suggest "and why don't you...". So my apologies first and here it goes anyways.
You could also stream each of your sources (I use RPi w/ LMS) and use a streamer or RPi at each receiving point. You can apply EQ at origin (Lms) or at the receiving end (camilladsp). And you save a lot of cables.
If you do it on zero 2w, it can be very economical too.

@MCH, this is a perfect segue... On the one hand, it doesn't help my front-end challenge of mixing all of my digital sources (e.g., turntable, CD/DVD, WiiM Pro) into a combined stream that DSP is then applied to. But thanks to the input from this thread, I think I know how to achieve it using an analog mixer (Ashly LX-308B), a digital mixer (Digiface USB), the ADI-2 Pro, and a PC as a routing bridge.

And if the Digiface USB had on-board DSP so that RME's new RoomEQ was available through TotalMix on that device, I would have been done!!! (Feature request for the Digiface USB v2 for @MC_RME)

So now I just need to figure out what software (on Windows) to use for routing and applying EQ to each of the separate output streams.

I assumed I would use CamillaDSP — but CDSP seems to require a lot of effort to learn how to install, configure, and maintain (especially on Windows). Is there other software that might be a better choice? Or is my best bet to tackle CamillaDSP?