I am interested in using Steven Slate Audio VSX software with TotalMix and a FireFace UCX II:

https://stevenslateaudio.com/en/vsx

The standard use case is to insert the VSX software on an output buss in one's DAW but I'd like to use it with TotalMix.

I have multiple outputs from the  FireFace UCX II configured in TotalMix going to different destinations.

I'm going to send the optical S/PDIF output to a Topping headphone amp to which the VSX headphones will be connected.

I'd like to use a VST host like Audiostrom Live Professor in conjunction with the TotalMix loopback functionality to host the VSX VST plugin.

That way, I could audition audio through the Slate VSX software (via Slate headphones) while leaving the other outputs unaffected.

Does this make sense? If so, are there any recommended approaches? Any further suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help!

All the best,

Iver

P.S. I have no idea why "ADAT user" is next to my username. :-)

I’m currently using a Fireface UFX III on Windows 11 with TotalMix FX and ARC USB.

I’m planning to buy a **Softube Console 1 Fader Mk III**, mainly for mixing in Cubase, but I would also love to use it as a physical controller for TotalMix during tracking.

If this workflow is possible with the new **Global OSC implementation in TotalMix FX 2.1**, I would also be happy to move my system to version 2.1.

My tracking setup is quite simple. I have two separate headphone outputs/submixes, and I would like to have fixed physical faders on the Softube controller for:

1. Vocal
2. Playback
3. Reverb return
4. Delay return
5. Click

I want each physical fader to control the same source level simultaneously in both headphone submixes. For example, moving the Reverb fader on the Softube should increase/decrease the reverb level in both headphone mixes at the same time.

The Console 1 Fader Mk III can operate in a generic MIDI CC mode, so I assume this could potentially be done through a small **MIDI ↔ Global OSC translation layer** between the Softube controller and TotalMix.

For tracking, motorized feedback is **not essential** for me. Even simple one-way control from the Softube faders to TotalMix would already give me exactly what I need.

However, it would **of course** be fantastic if bidirectional feedback were also possible. For example:

**ARC USB → recall TotalMix Snapshot → Global OSC sends the new fader values → Softube motorized faders move to the corresponding positions.**

So my questions are:

* Can Global OSC in TotalMix FX 2.1 address the level of a specific source in two different submixes simultaneously from one external controller?
* Does Global OSC currently provide sufficient feedback for bidirectional/motorized fader control?
* Is a MIDI ↔ Global OSC bridge a realistic way to implement this with the Softube Console 1 Fader Mk III?

If this is possible, it would be a very useful workflow for me and would be a good reason to move to TotalMix FX 2.1.

Thanks!

I am currently using a MOTU 8A and I was considering obtaining another one to use via AVB, but I am wondering about RME, since I am also considering a custom PC.

The MOTU has an internal 48 channel mixer, with 128 internal "computer channels", so does any RME device function in the same way, that is I do not need external I/O, I just need as large as is possible internal channel count, even using 44.1KHz @ 24bit.

I only really need compression, since all of my sounds are VST based so is this possible in DSP, since I use UAD to mix and need transparent recording.

Thank you for any replies.

wouldn't it be handy to save the state of the channel-appearance in tm-fx in the mixer layout presets?

I would like to switch between a view where several channels are maximized with the EQ-Srcreen or the Gain tab and another view where all Channels have the "standard" size appearance for example.
All that without changing any channel parameter or switching between several windows.
Could be stored in the "mixer-layout" presets in the Control strip (because it is exactly that: a layout)

Greetings,

Robin

I maintain the unofficial Stream Deck plugin for TotalMix FX that many of you most certainly know (and probably have a love/hate relationship with ). v5.1.0 went out today on the Elgato Marketplace.
It's a complete rewrite and redesign of the old C#/.NET plugin on Elgato's Node SDK. Entirely new software underneath and I've been able to implement all of the FX functions I previously couldn't since I got my hands on a modern unit in the meantime, so all of that should work now.

There are no external dependencies on either OS. Nothing to install but the plugin itself: no runtime, no helper application, nothing bundled that phones home. Stream Deck 6.9 brings everything it needs, and it talks to TotalMix over OSC directly.

If you already run v3

The bad news first: your buttons won't carry over. The many single-purpose actions were consolidated into a handful of parametrised ones, so every key has to be re-added. Since all of your customization lives in Stream Deck and Elgato doesn't offer a way to read them out from another plugin, there is no migration path, it sadly has to be a fresh restart. I've built the new version as a dedicated plugin to avoid breaking your existing and working setups until you've had the time and confidence to fully switch over.

What you get for the trouble:

• One persistent OSC connection instead of a socket per query and constant polling. Idle traffic and CPU load drop to near nothing.

• Real two-way state (with Global OSC anyway). Anything you change in the TotalMix window shows up on the deck: mutes light, faders track, the loaded snapshot shows as loaded.

• Stream Deck+ dials for volume, sends, pan and preamp gain, stepping in dB along RME's published fader curve instead of a linear 0-1 sweep.

• Channels picked by name from a dropdown read from the device, or pinned to a bus and bank position so a key controls the same channel forever.

MIDI is gone. OSC does everything the MIDI actions did and reports state back - also including MIDI would have meant integrating libraries, .NET code, different build paths for macOS and Windows and I just did not do that. If you're one of the probably two people that use it with MIDI: I'm sorry If you rely on MIDI, stay on v3.3.5 or use one of the other implementations people came up with.

One warning: don't point both versions at the same OSC Remote Controller. v3 and v5 both default to controllers 1 and 2 and will collide completely. Move one of them to controller 3 or 4, or uninstall the old plugin.

If you're on macOS

Good news, everyone! This is the first version that runs on a Mac at all. Same installer as Windows, no separate build, macOS 13 or newer. One thing to watch: macOS will ask for network access when the plugin first binds its UDP port, and denying it gives you a plugin that loads happily and then never shows any state or simply doesn't work.

Global OSC

I highly recommend you try out the Global OSC beta (see pinned messages in this subforum) of TotalMix in combination with the plugin. It offers way more features and a way better experience!

The "(TotalMix 2.1+)" actions use TotalMix's Global OSC mode on Remote Controller 2:

• Absolute channel numbers instead of bank-relative addressing.

• Full status feedback.

• Level meters with peak hold.

• Effects and dynamics sections (EQ, low cut, compressor/expander, Auto Level, Room EQ, reverb, echo) in TotalMix's own units.

Worth knowing that RME marks the protocol itself as beta, so it can change between releases. I will keep my best keeping up with them and updating the plugin, but if things break after a new beta or a potential release for a short while, that's just a possibility that comes with beta software.

The classic actions for TotalMix FX 1.96-2.0 are still in there and still work, on Remote Controller 1 — but new development happens on Global OSC.

Obviously, the plugin requires OSC enabled in TotalMix and Stream Deck 6.9+ on Windows 10+ or macOS 13+.

Download: It's available from Elagto Marketplace exclusively https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/ … c18befa21e. The plugin is free and will stay free.

Setup guide and documentation: https://shells-dw.github.io/streamdeck-totalmix/

Feedback and bug reports very welcome, especially from Mac users.
Reply here or open a GitHub ticket.

Cheers.

Same for dynamics presets.  This is one of my only complaints

Could it be a network issue? What kind of logs/files I have to provide in order to inspect the issue? Thank you so much to everyone.

1. Send something to TotalMix via OSC from Page 3, like mix snapshot

/3/snapshots/%d/1 1.

-> TotalMix returns with page 3 feedback (Reverb/Delay, DURec, Snapshots, etc.) {Expected}.

2. Then, send

/setSubmix %f

-> Here, TotalMix returns page 3 feedback again! {Unexpected}
-> Also note, some of the indices don't return any feedback. Example:

/setSubmix 1.

might return OSC feedback, but

/setSubmix 3.

does not, then

/setSubmix 4.

does return.

3. Send a Page 1 OSC command like

/1/busOutput 1.

-> Here, TotalMix returns page 1 feedback.

4. Then, send

/setSubmix %f

again.
-> This time, TotalMix returns with page 1 feedback! {Expected}

This appears like a bug to me.
Its not a dealbreaker. But on a platform like RME that seems so rock-solid and perfect, having a bug doesn't feel very nice.

Here is my test Max patch that is sending these values over.
(I am trying to put together a prototype for a hardware OSC controller. TotalMix and TotalMix Remote are absolutely amazing, but the lack of tactile knobs is causing me grief and stress in live and studio sessions).

Happy to share any info if required.

I simply can't find a user manual for Totalmix FX. Not for v2.0 or any other version. Is this anywhere to be found?

Specifically, I cannot find any information on what the green (or red) percentage numbers in the upper right corner of the new 2.0 version means... (the numbers right next to the show/hide FX switch)

However intuitive the software is, a manual would just be great to have in any case. I might be missing other functions.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!

Michele

I have a problem with my OctaMic XTC as aux device.
Every few minutes the XTC changes settings on its own: channel 1 suddenly gets
+48V and PAD, and the Digital Routing blocks MADI 33-40 and 41-48 get switched
around. Happens a lot when loading snapshots but also just during normal work.

Setup: UFX+ on a Mac Studio (macOS 26), TotalMix 2.10 alpha 8. MADI ring
optical: UFX+ -> M-32 Pro DA -> M-32 Pro AD -> OctaMic XTC -> back to UFX+.
Only the XTC is set up as aux device (ID 1, bank MADI 9-16), the M-32s are not
MIDI controlled. XTC firmware is USB 47 / DSP 26, I even re-flashed it with the
new flash tool 3.83 – no change, the problem was there before the re-flash too.
I also tried switching off MIDI Ctrl Thru on the XTC, no difference.

First I thought a snapshot had 48V stored on that channel, but I checked the
workspace files, they are clean, no 48V/PAD stored anywhere on those channels.
So I put MIDI Monitor on Port 3 and watched. Normally I see this:

every ~300 ms: F0 00 20 0D 69 01 12 F7
every ~2.6 s: F0 00 20 0D 69 01 20 00 00 70 7F 01 00 70 7F ... F7 (40 bytes)

The short one stops when I quit TotalMix, so it looks like the XTC answering
the aux polling. But every few minutes I catch a broken frame like this:
F0 00 20 0D 69 01 20 00 00 70 7F 01 00 70 7F 02 00 70 12 F7

The dump stops after channel 2 and ends with the tail of the short message,
and right after that MIDI Monitor logs a bunch of "Invalid" 2-3 byte fragments
(00 12 7F, 00 1C 74, 00 7F F7, 00 07 00 and so on). The timing of the two
messages drifts against each other so they collide every few minutes, which
matches exactly how often the XTC screws up its settings.

I also sent a test note to Port 3 to check for a ring echo – it does not come
back. So the broken frames really come from the XTC itself, it seems to push
its polling replies into the middle of its own dumps. And since the Digital
Routing changes too (aux control can't even do routing), something on the
receive side of the XTC gets confused as well.

Is this known? I have full MIDI Monitor captures if needed.

Frank

Features:
1 - Volume control for any outputs (including Main Out and headphones) via Mac volume keys with an adjustable step size of 1–10 dB, menu-bar control, output muting, and assignable analog channels for independent routing.
2 - Dim/Mute function via the Mac mute key.
3 - Mono toggle via SHIFT+CMD+M.
4 - Speaker B button.
5 - Phantom power and instrument mode control for any number of input channels, along with input level monitoring via a dedicated always-on-top window.
6 - Clipping notification.
7 - Input and output channels can be edited and new ones can be added.
8 - Customizable menu.
9 - When TotalMix or the audio interface is disconnected, values cannot be changed; in this case, the Mac volume keys revert to their native system behavior. The application reads values from TotalMix at startup and is fully synchronized and stable.
10 - The 'RME Control Remote' block has appeared in the application settings — just flip the 'HTTP server' toggle, and the app will launch its own web server within your home network. A QR code will appear on the screen — scan it with your phone (connected to the same Wi-Fi), and you will get a full RME remote control right in your mobile browser.

Setup:
1. TotalMix: set OSC Host to 127.0.0.1, ports to 7001 / 9001.
2. OSC Mode: Options → Mixer Settings → OSC → Compatibility (Mode): Global OSC
3. Enable Send Status
4. Enable Send level data
5. Enable Peak hold
6. Enable Send all data on start
7. macOS: grant the app Accessibility permissions.

Download RME Control 2.6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJJUYX … sp=sharing

Enjoy, friends!

              Mismatch detected - mixer state of
     Fireface UCX II (1) and TotalMix FX are different.
 
  Click "TotalMix" to use the TotalMix settings (default) or
Click "Device" to convert the Device' mix into a TotalMix FX
                          mixer state or

Note: If unsure, click "Device" to check the unit's settings first,
      then hit Undo to restore the last TotalMix FX settings

                Device                            TotalMix

This was incomprehensible and very frustrating to me, and after a long hours of trying to make it work, it settled (as normal one TM), and I imported whole bunch of settings in it... But the next day, after turning up UCX & TotalMix, that "normal" version disappeared, and there was just one, "other one" which couldn't read almost any of my previous settings, and in the top left side it was text:
RME TotalMix FX: Fireface UCX II (1) - disconnected

To make things even worse, I cannot uninstall it! I thought I should try to re-install the driver, but there is no file to uninstall!!!

I'm using Windows 10 PC, which doesn't make any problems.
My previous device was Babyface Pro FS, and I uninstalled the driver before installing the new one, for UCX II.
Please help!

I’m not sure if this is possible, but I couldn’t find any way to do it.

Is there a way to automatically display the TotalMix window whenever I touch a control (press a button, adjust the volume, etc) on the ARC controller?

I understand that you can set up a button to toggle the TotalMix window, but it would be much more convenient if this could be done automatically every time I use the ARC controller. The window could then hide again after a few seconds.