hey there crew. just wondering if there is someone out there that could enlighten me to the ways of the RME multiface. i have been using it for a few months now. i thought that these question would arrive in time, alas, i am still confused. for starters, i have been using peter todd artical in linux journal. some of this is useful but other bits simply don't help at all. my main problem is the gain settings. i can't seem to have consistant gain for different applications. my input gain is really realy low for the line (analog) inputs and i can't seem to find a way to boost them. when i record in ardour, the waveform is really small and i end up having to normalize every clip/track to get a decent volume. this is the same issue with PD. when i try to boost the gain on using the command as written by peter todd i get errors. ie amixer -c 1 cset name=Chn,index=1 32768 amixer: Cannot find the given element from control hw:1 the other issue is that when i use media players like audacious, xmms, mplayer etc. the output gain is a huge amount louder than PD and Ardour and other such audio apps. this is really confusing. as for routing the I/O's for live audio usage. i can't seem to workout a simple and effective way to route the sound for performance. ideally i would like to be able to have pd own the card. at the moment all the inputs are directed routed and mixed to the subsequent output ie analog in 1 goes to analog out 1, ananlog in 2 goes to analog out 2. what would be great is a matrix like the one in windoes...... any help would be awesome. thanks as always. tom