RME Audio

RME was founded in 1996 by Ralf Männel and Matthias Carstens. Carstens got his start in the audio world by training as an electrical engineer, playing drums, working in various music stores, and becoming proficient at electronic repair. As Carstens was working with audio equipment, Männel presented a project in ELRAD, a German magazine for electronics and technical applied computing. Männel’s concept was a Interface, Level Meter, Error Analyzer, measuring and long term test system. Carstens thought the project had promise, contacted Männel and the two decided to work together, thus creating RME. Currently RME consists of a German team of developers with a robust vision of creating innovative, user friendly, and high-quality digital audio solutions.

RME is a German audio company based in Haimhausen, Germany. RME designs and markets audio interfaces, analog-to-digital converters, mic preamps, PCI interfaces, and related products. RME products are widely acknowledged to be “reference quality” within the audio interface industry.

RME was founded in 1996 by Ralf Männel and Matthias Carstens. Carstens got his start in the audio world by training as an electrical engineer, playing drums, working in various music stores, and becoming proficient at electronic repair. As Carstens was working with audio equipment, Männel presented a project in ELRAD, a German magazine for electronics and technical applied computing. Männel’s concept was a Interface, Level Meter, Error Analyzer, measuring and long term test system. Carstens thought the project had promise, contacted Männel and the two decided to work together, thus creating RME. Currently RME consists of a German team of developers with a robust vision of creating innovative, user friendly, and high-quality digital audio solutions.

From the very beginning, unsurpassed performance has been one of the cornerstones of RME‘s product design, and this is even more evident today. RME were the first to deliver professional performance over USB 2.0 and have recently paved the way for multichannel audio on USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt technology for Windows. RME‘s refusal to compromise on any aspect of product design or manufacture has resulted an unrivalled reputation for quality, performance and reliability.

Our Audio Core and Steady Clock technologies are just two examples of our dedication to superior design. We place a high level of attention on the development of reliable, stable, and regularly updated drivers for our products and an unwavering focus on audio quality. All RME devices are designed to preserve music as it was originally intended and audio signals are passed in their entirety, with nothing added or taken away."

RME offers a comprehensive range of audio interfaces, converters, mic preamps and network audio solutions, all based around its unique and innovative core technologies.

Multi-platform connectivity across Windows and Mac OS via PCI, PCIe, Thunderbolt technology, FireWire, USB 2 and 3, as well as iOS Class Compliance has earned RME a global reputation for providing support to all users on all platforms.

This is particularly apparent with the inclusion of multiple interface formats on products such as the Fireface UFX, UFX+, UCX, 802 and MADIface XT. RME‘s reputation is further enhanced by its rock-solid drivers, which provide unrivalled stability and low-latency performance on both Windows and Mac OS. And because the company develops its own interface core, it’s not dependent on 3rd parties for upgrades, modifications or bug fixes.

In 2001, RME launched the PCI Interface card for mobile audio recording which made it the world’s first for operating on desktop, laptop, and notebook. It quickly became the industry standard due to its advanced technology and continuing support for firmware and drivers.