• Registered: 2016-10-19
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Topic: What Do You Do With TotalMix?

Sincere question.  It seems like a dynamite app, but I can’t find a use for many of its features, other than basic routing.  It’s less full-featured than a DAW mixer, but also doesn’t have comprehensive enough  remote control to the the back-end of a full mixer surface.  I’d love to use it that way...

Earnestly,
Brian

  • breun
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Re: What Do You Do With TotalMix?

I personally use it with my Babyface Pro to monitor without latency and with some reverb while recording. Monitoring through software (DAW) adds noticeable latency. But I bet there are a lot more advanced use cases.

  • ramses
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Re: What Do You Do With TotalMix?

What is TotalMix FX ? -> https://www.rme-usa.com/totalmix-fx.html

A full collection of tutorial Videos in my blog (new and very good older videos, that shouldnt get lost):
https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … al-Videos/

Some of my use cases with UFX+ / ADI-2 Pro FS R BE / Octamic XTC: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … Rec-EN-DE/

Snapshot of the complete setup with a hook to HiFi to use it as 2nd monitor pair: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … her-EN-DE/

In other words .. where other vendors sometimes develop their monitoring/mixing software completely new for a new series of devices (device-/project-oriented approach), RME designed TotalMix FX to be superior from ground up and decided to use only this one software for ALL of its devices in the last 20+ years.
By this the product reached a high stability, maturity coupled with great functionality and absolutely no lag.

TotalMix FX has been designed to be the best monitor mixer for recording interfaces with many comfort functions to quickly create, store and recall mixes for monitors, phones, outboard devices plus well thought other features.
Other functions are i.e.
- enabling for zero latency mixes on the device
- loopback recording
- setting / controlling fader groups
- controlling the FX section (supported by some recording interfaces with FX chip on board)
- controlling DURec for UFX *
- the interfacing between ARC USB and recording interfaces which support TotalMix FX. By this even around 20y old devices got now a remote for the TM FX control room, for which initially no remote was planned.
- AUXDEVICE support, remote control feature for Octamic XTC
- configuration of MIDI over MADI
- new remote version of TM -> TM FX Remote to be able to control TM FX from remote computers over network
- Snapshot and Workgroup support
- Workspace Quick Select support
- Quick recall of other Quick Select workspaces by ALT-1, ALT-2, by this you can get more than 8 Snapshot places to save routings / settings

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13
  • Registered: 2018-12-21
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Re: What Do You Do With TotalMix?

Using it as a flexible OSC controlled digital live mixer and recorder (in combination with some hardware de-essers). It’s doing a pretty decent job, though it would be great to have some more sophisticated dsp (especially soft knee control on the compressor, faster attack / limiter, more bands on the EQ).