You're right Jose, I hesitated when I put the dark background. I finally use the original color (or near). I've updated Matrix screenshot and firefacemix.exe for Matthias.

Hello,

the reason to change the colors in the Matrix is that the functionality explained in the manual should stay identical. We chose blue because it is unusal and therefore is easily remembered to indicate phase reversal. Etc.

Now that doesn't mean that the whole Matrix has to look as before. I had no problem with the black background. The grey one now looks a bit boring...IMHO...maybe a better one is yet to come...

Hard to please everybody :-). Perhaps a poll ? It takes me one minute to put a darker background. Perhaps not black but a very dark blue or something like that. I'll post screenshots in the day.

All are ready to go.

I suggested a poll but i'm not sure it will be very representative and efficient to decide.

What the boss says ?

Ok, for me I would like to see a dark grey background, made out of the dark-grey structure found in the original panels (right side TotalMix).

Please note that you seemd to have overlooked something: the current Matrix includes an orientation grid, showing the borders of different interfaces and also of multiple channel groups. This is done by 4 different grey background bitmaps - they are not all the same. The matching placement is done by TotalMix, for every card/interface and sample rate mode.

Nearly perfect (for me). Now if you could make the interface orientation lines less bright...they stand out too much...

Perfect! I downloaded the exe. Could you do the same to the TM in the HDSP driver v 3.056, means provide an exe with these bitmaps?

I still like the light grey better because of the high contrast (but that's just me).

The dark grey is my second favorite.  Just wanted to mention that :-)

There is a batch and script file you can use in Resource Hack that makes changing the bitmaps much easier.

I Personally Like the Lighter Back grounds on the Matrix, which make it easier on the eye's. What about a White Background with fine seperator lines?? If that's not an option then I vote for the Light Grey one. For the TotalMix I think Blue is cool.

The light grey one (with guide lines) is also ready to go so when we can share skins, I'll let the 2.

Matthias,
that's great, thanks a lot !

Wonderful stuff re skinning. One of the small but nice things that can make all the difference, like with Reaper.

Here we go:

https://archiv.rme-audio.de/download/tm_bmps.zip

includes all the original bitmaps and a text file explaining the details.

https://archiv.rme-audio.de/download/hdsp_wdm_3057.zip

is the new hdsp driver with the skinable TotalMix. Official release later when I find the time to edit the website.

The changes will be done to the FF driver latest next week.

Looking foward for the FF400 ones...
:-)

rw

matthias, why is the midi....rtf file not included here? means we get updated manuals (pdf) soon?

also are there any other changes/fixes in the (asio)driver compared to 3.056 which are not mentioned in the readme?

thanks!

+ small "bug": the english readme misses the "expresscard" on the "hdspe series" line:

liesmich: HDSPe Series (PCI, MADI, ExpressCard)
readme: HDSPe Series (PCI, MADI)

not really. just thought that the asio.dll should be the same as in 3.056 if nothing got changed!? or i'm wrong with this?

yeah, just saw this too sorry ...

btw: i would recommend renaming the new "Ignore I/O Labels" to something like "Ignore I/O Labels on Presetchange" or something similar. I really didn't get the functionality of this option first. had to search the forum to get it

Ok,

3.057 is on the web now. The new TM Skin page will be up soon too.

First, thanks for the new tm styles - especially manolo and sander.

They look great!!!

For me as a mac user it was easy to change the resource file to get the new tm-look.

Could someone please compile the new images - like sander did before - to one or more resource files for those (me), who are not familiar with compiling.

THANKS A LOT!!

Lelajo

Enjoy!

Sander.

Ok..taken from the previously posted notes for the HDSP skinnable:
"TotalMix 3.057 and up use their internal bitmaps until a folder bmp is found in the same location where the presets are stored, and this folder includes one or more correctly named bmps. Then the ones in the folder will be used.

Path: Documents and Settings, <Username>, Local Settings, Application Data, RME TotalMix.

The new option 'Level Meter Text Color' brings up the Windows standard dialog to define a new color for the gain and level text display of the channels. Default color is green, 90/240/120, 0/255/64. Also found as pre-defined color, second row, fourth from the left. The values are written in the registry. There is no default button, use the mentioned values to set it back to the old color."

The thing that tricked me for a minute was the fact that you have to rename the "bmp sander.." folder to simply "bmp".
FWIW it looks really great here. Thanks and good work!

looks pretty nice, but why did you choose the scale to display up to +6db? also the loopback bitmaps look a bit "dirty" with the channelnames on top of them imo. would look much better if these bitmaps would just be simple color rather than having this loopback-symbol on it ...