Yes, that's what I meant. Ok, I think this never happened to me before. But probably not a beta specific issue then.

I've been reviewing TotalMix Beta 5.0 – wow, it’s fantastic, chock full of thoughtful improvements.  I LOVE the ability to scroll to fill the available space, it looks like it's implemented perfectly to me.  This is just huge.  Some other things I love about this new version:

1)    New MIDI Icons highlighting the channels being controlled by a MIDI control surface
2)    Wonderful Loopback icons on both the output and the input Control Strip – great reminders when trying to keep things straight. (I typically have 20 + channels in Loopback to enable various virtual submixes and digital sends/receives).

I agree with many of the other commenters in saying the overall lack of contrast is not to my liking.  I can see if you sit in a dark studio, this might suit your fancy, but I use TotalMix in a live band situation, plus a brightly lit studio environment, and I need things to stand out a bit better and not be having to squint.  I’m not suggesting a wholesale change, but a few items could certainly be tweaked a bit to improve readability across multiple environments.

So far, the only bug I’ve encountered is the Beta 5.0 has lost the ability to click left or right of the horizontal scroll slider to "jump-scroll"; horizontal scroll only works by dragging the scroll bar control.  This worked in the baseline, so I hope that behavior can be retained.

I know you aren’t looking for lists of suggested improvements in this post, so I intend to provide a separate thread with my wishlist.  But I do want to discuss 2 items here:

1) As others have pointed out, I think the most important thing you could do for TotalMix is to better highlight the currently selected Target Submix displayed at the bottom of the Input and Playback strips so that it clearly stands out.  A related improvement would be having the Target Submix follow the Names button convention and show the User Name rather than the Default Name as the target (unless the Names button is selected).  Something that I’ve always scratched my head on, TotalMix labels Output AN 1/2 as Main, yet lists it as AN 1/2 when it's the Target Submix, where “Main” would be the obvious preferrable choice for consistency. In my opinion, TotalMix has gained a lot of unwarranted negative comments for its seeming lack of intuitiveness. As someone who's finally gotten their head around TotalMix controlling all the various Submixes, it's still relatively easy to forget to check which Submix is selected, such that you find yourself unintentionally changing the wrong Submix.  I maintain this is the main source of the confusion that most new users of TotalMix complain about, so anything that improves that vital connection should be considered.

2) I also find myself repeatedly having to go back and forth with the Names button to keep myself grounded in my relatively complex setup.  What I am requesting as part of this update is to be able to continuously display both names (User and Default), on two separate lines at the top of every Control Strip.  Yes, it eats up screen real estate by making each Control Strip taller, but with the newly provided ability to continuously zoom, that becomes a non-issue to me.  I would be fine if you made that a permanent change, but you could also have it user-selectable.

To visualize these modifications, here are three graphics; the first is the current unchanged 2.0 example graphic from earlier in this thread, the second adds the suggested changes: dual-line Channel Strip names, and the modified Target Submix (user name in bold orange), and the third highlights the respective suggested changes.

https://myimgs.org/image/zT9GNarp
https://myimgs.org/image/N4H8bfZD
https://myimgs.org/image/pB2imyVq

Thanks for your consideration – and THANKS! For this wonderful upgrade.

Not only that (opposite name). It would be possible to allow for longer user defined names than only 11 character.

As also strings/fonts can theoretically be scaled, you could possibly think about supporting a few more characters
which you can see directly as fader description (without the tooltip).

And if the tooltip shows up, you could show the complete description, which could have more than 11 characters.

hmm. interesting topic. If you are just programming a new TM, is it possible to add such code at the user's choice to disable/remove any compressors, equalizers, reverberation etc in TM, and leave only one crossfade in phone and durec for ufx3? so that all the DSP or CPU Rme resources go only to processing input and output data for those who care about it? The arguments are as follows: premium cards are taken either for live concerts or in the studio, and for these people some dyn eq etc that they don't know about are not needed, everyone has their own plugins that are important..so it's all FX that is simply not used in Rme, I don't know the topology of Rme programming but if such a shutdown of all FX would improve the speed of the Rme sound card - that would be good... I would like a genius - one button and everything fx rme is excluded from the CPU DSP process Rme, Maybe this is a separate driver is needed,.

Thanks Ramses for the clarification, if FX doesn't affect the process then that's great, that's another + then to the Rme audio card

I updated the text.

This is a topic about TM2, so I won't develop the topic of process speed here.

Sorry, I meant that this is a topic about TM, and if I ask something off-topic here, it's inappropriate.. But here's another question on the topic, I read your link to Ton Studio, thank you for the good clarifications I needed, I'll just clarify one more thing: if I save the tmws files separately, but they are from version 1.99, will this file open normally in 2.0? because there is a different interface, etc.

Yes, an outstanding idea!

According to DuRec, if you record, for example, MADI 1.2.3.4-mono, MADI 5/6 stereo, MADI 7/8 do not record, then MADI 9/10 stereo record, MADI 11 and 12 do not record and record MADI 13, then during playback these channels become only from 1 to 9 in turn, that is, they are shifted, throwing out the unrecorded ones, and MADI 13 during recording, will become MADI 9 during playback and does not correspond to the routing with further connections.  The way out of this is this: record ALL channels from 1 to 13, even empty/unnecessary ones. But if, for example, I need to record only 1/2 and 25/26 of the mix, then I need to record not these four channels but all 26, otherwise 25/26 will become 3/4 when played back... It is not possible to play the virtual mix normally afterwards, because 1/2 will normally correspond to 1/2, and 25/26 will become 3/4 and I need to make crutches so that 3/4 becomes 25/26 where there is routing for the subsequent system. And is it possible in this case that by default the channel numbers of the recording immediately become the same numbers for play? and only if necessary can it be replaced with another one?.

Windows version coming soon?

Matthias wrote: "Wait – what about Windows? The Windows version is in the works, expected to be available after the summer holidays, around September."

For the impatient: September will soon be over. Let's go!

Let them find all the bugs in macOS so that Win. version can be stable

Use the default zoom factors to reset it.

Thank you MC.
Only 70% seems to work for zooming in and out with scaling the channel strips.
But then, the Control Strip is very small and stays at that zoom factor.
Is this intended?

Hi MC and dev team,

A bit late to the game here. But my oh my, Totalmix 2 is a bliss. Great works chaps!

Pål

Beta1 for Windows now available: https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 86#p243086

(re-posting same as in Windows TMFX beta forum)

"I agree, it is very hard to see, which output is selected."

it would be fairly easy if bottom fader labels followed name and color of selected output fader:

in the example above, green channel 1/2 should have bottom orange label Main to make sense

and one thing quite useful was if there was the option to have the eq section AND room eq open at the same time. not sure why this has ever been done this way. if you tweak an eq in the deep end, you may also want to adjust the room eq, or, the eq section can be part of room eq etc.

Its part of your workspace...
But its at the end of the day under your control, create another workspace without the 2nd device.

Sorry, seems I didn't understand your point.

It has happened to me in Win also... When I left TM and run it again, it took as much as a older TM. So, generally, no problem.

Fantastic as always RME, a welcome update thank you so much!

I also second a very obvious way to tell which submix I'm working with, perhaps using colours or an outline box. I use the UXCII for live mixing and as I'm flipping between playback, video and midi mapping programs while tweaking sub/fill/monitor outputs it's not always easy to notice which output I'm working with.

Also, is there now any possible way to get FX on/off to map to MIDI/OSC like the ARC USB? I understand it is some sort of SysEx message unlike the midi mapping available for the rest of TotalMix?

Furthermore, now that this scales, a mobile phone version would be mighty handy at live shows as I'm often using it alongside a tablet for Qlab Remote, RTA, etc. I understand I can build an OSC version but has so far been tricky to implement smoothly.

Thanks again!

All the improvements of the current Windows Beta will be ported over to Mac for the next maOS beta. Improved performance is one point among many. After the next Windows beta (expected shortly) we'll continue here.