Hapi is no lightweight except for its compact 1U form factor. In addition to having the Ravenna I/O count, eight AES/EBU plus eight ADAT or two SPDIF is standard. An optional MADI card will make Hapi into an AES67 to MADI converter with one slot left for analogue I/O.
You don't have to be a Pyramix user or a Ravenna enthusiast to enjoy the advanced features that Hapi offers. The CoreAudio and ASIO drivers allow any DAW to connect to the RAVENNA network and the superior I/O performance can become part of whatever DAW set up is used. Pro Tools user and Lady Gaga engineer, Dave Russell said; "It murders everything else. Everything you put into it, you get out of it. It is so detailed."
Hapi is also a favourite with mastering engineers and the elite of classical recording engineers as a control room monitoring DAC. The recent growth of DSD and DXD download sites is stimulating more demand for original hi-resolution recordings and since the vast majority are recorded with Pyramix/Horus/Hapi systems, there is a healthy demand for converters with the Premium cards fitted.
(Jim Evans)
