I'll do my best to make this all configurable soon.

fgimian,

thank you so much for this app!
I was using the midi function (loopmidi+totalkey) and I've just switched using your app and up to this point seems to me much more stable and with much better funcionality/presentation.

I am sorry to hear that other users experience problems, for me it seems to be working with no problems.
However if anything goes wrong I will report it here.

Many mant THANKS again!

Sorry to keep piling on but yesterday, the TM volume control started working on my laptop

I was doing some routing between my laptop, desktop and with my DAW software. I didn't do anything special but just tried the volume up/down buttons on the keyboard and it worked! At the end of the day I started shutting things down. First, I closed Adobe Audition and then for some reason I tried the volume up/down keys on my desktop keyboard and IT was working!

Guess this is what some people have mentioned about it not working all of the time? It never worked with the HDSP9652 though.

Cheers and hope you all are having a great week!

-Steve

UPDATE: I've been using the tool for a few days now, putting the computer to standby at night without restarting it.  I haven't encountered a single issue, it is rock solid.  I read the issues reported above and I wonder if it could be due to Windows not properly loading drivers after coming out of standby.  The following two settings are recommended for Windows 10 (possibly 11 as well) to ensure that the OS loads all drivers, services and programs correctly on startup and after standby:

• Settings\Accounts\Sign-in options\Privacy -> turn off use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device

• Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Choose what the power buttons do -> disable turn on fast startup

I totally agree. One pays a premium price for RME and a good software package is part of what I hope for when choosing for RME. Aside from that the "sledgehammer" solution did not work for me reliable unfortunately, so this is also not option for me.

I just wanted to say thank you so much fgimian! This does exactly what i need.

I wanted a hardware solution to control the volume for my 7.1.4 Atmos mixing setup.  I had this cheap $10 USB single knob. It's plug and play, in the sense that as soon as i plug it in, it controls my main Windows volume.

Thanks to you, now this single hardware knob can control all of my grouped 12 outputs in totalmix simultaneously. This really makes my workflow so much easier!

Ah, it seems Fotis has been working on a different version written in Rust rather than C# https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-volume-control.rs.

Hey there everyone, I decided to ditch the Rust version as the GUI libraries were simply too immature and constantly leading to rework. Instead I decided to put a bunch of effort into the C# version and now am happy to announce an alpha build of the next major version v0.5.0.

This new version allows you to configure almost every aspect of the app, including OSC hostname and port, colours, scaling, whether the widget should show up if you make changes remotely (e.g. via ARC) and more. Please check out the README for instructions on configuring the new version: https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … /README.md If you don't wish to use the config file, that's totally cool, the app will continue to operate exactly as it did before.

The early build is available at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … 5370030933 (just click TotalMixVC Release Setup under Artifacts to download). I would love to get as many hands on it as possible to iron out any bugs that I may have introduced (hopefully not too many).

Edit: I've updated the build. This build will write a log file to the same location as the config and log any unhandled errors that occur when communicating with the device. I suspect I know the root cause of the ocassional disconnect, so if you do experience it, please send me your app.log under %APPDATA%\TotalMix Volume Control.

One recommendation I have is to disable the app from starting at boot, uninstall the old version and install the new version. I have simplified various things and startup registration now goes in the registry instead of a file in the Startup folder as this was much simpler to manage.

I'm so so glad to hear that it's working for you. I'm definitely happy to consider that but I'm worried it may cause confusion as many people installing the program don't know what .NET Runtime is as I learned when I first released the app.

Hey everyone, I've tracked down and squashed that nasty bug which sometimes prevented the app from reconnecting. The issue would be apparent if the device is offline for extended periods of time. I wasn't cancelling the task which was receiving packets in those situations, so more and more tasks would build up which would take longer and longer to clear depending on how long your device was offline for.

You can check out a fresh build with a fix to this nasty bug at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … 5401086523

Cheers
Fotis

Here's a bright theme for all your Light Windows lovers. Feel free to tweak and share your results:

    "theme": {
        "background_rounding": 0.01,
        "background_color": "#f9f9f9",
        "heading_totalmix_color": "#333333",
        "heading_volume_color": "#c04444",
        "volume_readout_color_normal": "#1a1a1a",
        "volume_readout_color_dimmed": "#ffa500",
        "volume_bar_background_color": "#8a8a8a",
        "volume_bar_foreground_color_normal": "#444444",
        "volume_bar_foreground_color_dimmed": "#bc8520",
        "tray_tooltip_message_color": "#1a1a1a",
    },

    "interface": {
        "hide_delay": 1.5,
        "fade_out_time": 0.2,
    },

I've sped up the times to be more similar to the Windows volume indicator in this example.

Appreciate the idea Chris, but this really is out of scope for my project. TotalMixFX already provides the ability to be controlled via MIDI though, so maybe check that out and see if you can map your controller accordingly.

You can simply provide a link to the .NET 8.0 https://aka.ms/dotnet/8.0/windowsdeskto … in-x64.exe in the description of every release.  Just specify it as a requirement that needs to be installed.  Like this Requirement: .NET 8.0 .  People should be expected to read the description of a download link for a software that they are installing, especially if the description is this short.  Including all these dependencies is just not a standard practice that I've yet seen.

hey everyone!
First of all - I want to thanks the dev team about this program - I was looking for a long time - somehow to control the volume of my RME with keyboard. I have one more question - is there any way to map the mono button on the keyboard also and what will be the commands and where to paste it. thank you a lot for the help

I'm so sorry guys, I have not been getting email notifications for this topic despite being subscribed.

I have thought about it and decided not do this. The application is less than 50 MB to download which is much smaller than a lot of popular apps (e.g. TIDAL is 200 MB for a music player). Embedding the runtime also makes it very easy for me to update to new .NET versions without imposing a manual step on users. At some point in the future, my intention is still to rewrite the application in Rust. I have already been experimenting with many approaches to do this (directly using Win32 Direct2D and using egui with OpenGL). Rewriting in Rust will give many advantages and will make the download much smaller too as there won't be a runtime bundled. However, this probably is still a while off.

Thanks a lot, it's not really a team, it's just me actually There is no current way to control anything other than master volume and dim which is the primary purpose of this application. You may wish to check out Nix at https://www.bsound.co.nz/tools-nix which provides the ability to map a lot more things.

This is actually supported already in the "interface" section of the config which you can see in the sample config at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … ample.json and you can read about configuring the app with this file in the README at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … README.md.

And onto the original reason I popped back to this topic. I am currently preparing the next major release of the app. I have already implemented the ability to increment volume in dB if one desires, which you can try out in the preview build at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … 3009830304. See more information about configuring this in the sample configuration at https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … ample.toml. Please be advised I've switched back to TOML and changed a few minor aspects of the config file so be sure to cross-check and update your config.

One of the main issues I want to tackle for the next release is the report of disconnects by some people (e.g. https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … issues/5). I have experienced this on rare occassions and think I know what the root cause is, but I will need a little help to verify my findings, so if you're experiencing this problem, please chime in! I will be producing a build with some extra logging for those affected to help me get the issue sorted for once and for all.

Edit: If you are encountering any disconnects, please install the Debug build from https://github.com/fgimian/totalmix-vol … 3020914756 The log can be found at %AppData%\TotalMix Volume Control (you may type that location into Windows Explorer to get there). Kindly paste the contents of the log here if you encounter the issue while running this build of the app so we can get this fixed!

Hi. Nice project. Want to report back.

Works very intermittently in my case. Does not like fader groups either. I have had partial success with it, and like what it does. It has potential. (Testing was done with no other audio soft running)

Also, it does not behave with other software for volume control. I use Volume2, which lets me control volume with win+mousewheel, a really killer feature (and also switch devices real fast, as well as controlling multiple devices and OSD. If Volume2 (https://irzyxa.blogspot.com) is open it says that it is unable to map the hotkeys. It makes no sense, as both could live side by side without issues, only the change volume message should be intercepted, as I see it.

If Windows 10/11 this could be the paranoid folder protection feature in Windows Defender Security app that blocks this program from accessing that location. Had this several times myself with different tools. Can be easily either switched off for the specific location or completely

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defen … ed-folders

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defen … ed-folders

What makes this feature so stupid and useless is that the blocking causes other, misleading error messages, and is not signalled anywhere at all. You later find the reason through the list of blocked accesses...if you ever find this feature...

OK worked out how to have the TOML file accepted..
But i still cant get the volume control app to show on screen
when i i rotate my ARC..which is the only reason i want this..

otherwise i have to open TotalMix to see where the volume level is