Thanks fgimian!

In the meantime I tried your software more. I have not found a pattern when the connection is lost. Currently it has been running fine for about a day. Yesterday I lost the connection several times. Nothing changed at all -- I even did not reboot, just restarted your volume control software.

EDIT: and connection lost again -- without any change... :-(

EDIT 2: I used the software for some days, but it just does not function reliable. I removed it again. It's more cumbersome to have a "solution" which some times works and then just stops. Anyway, thanks for the efforts. I really wonder why not more users ask for such a solution and that RME would provide that with their drivers!

hi fgimian

thanks for all your efforts to create this tool for all of us to enjoy

Running a Windows 8.1 machine, 64 bit version. I downloaded and installed your ver 0.4.0 and it appeared to all go well. I see the steps for configuring the OSC control, port settings and IP address to use and I'm getting the message "Successfully communicating with your RME device". Seeing this message both with my BBF Pro FS and UCXII but I'm not seeing the volume window when I make any changes. Is there something I forgot? I never tried your earlier versions so maybe I'm missing something or unaware of some other setting I need to check. I did restart Totalmix after installing but did not reboot the PC.

I'm really looking forward to using it. Thanks again for any help you can give.

***just read the README on git. Am I correct that this tool will only work on laptops with volume hot keys? perhaps that's my problem. I was assuming it would work on the BBF encoder, ARC USB or any slider level change in Totalmix for phones or main out.

****I answered my own question that the tool is indeed for laptops with volume/mute keys. I installed it on my laptop and I see the graphic indicating TotalMIX Volume" but apparently my install didn't go so smoothly because all that shows is a dash "-" and I don't see the message that it's successfully communicating with my BBF on the laptop.

Any ideas how to handle this? Thanks again.

What a fantastic tool!  Fotis thank you so much for making this and sharing it here.  I've posted a link to your github in the threads related to TotalKeyMix, a tool with a similar functionality that I've updated, but now consider superseded by your elegant solution.

Genuine question, is there any legit reason for RME not to implement this natively? fgimian's utility does works exactly as expected and, to be fair, it is the best of its kind, but it's kinda heavy for what it does.

Maybe that was the initial release. The current release, v0.4.0, is a 45.5 MB download that installs to 141 MB on my drive, and occupies almost 74 MB of RAM. That's like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut. All we are doing here is turn volume up and down, so I imagine a native implementation would be more efficient.

I've also wondered about this and I think the answer is 3 part.
1. Binding Windows's volume control to TotalMix seems like a bad idea.
2. Binding global keyboard or media controls directly to TotalMix might also be considered as something that should be avoided simply as a matter of principle.
3. RME has a much bigger focus towards the pro market in a setting where this functionality is not needed when there is a control console.  It should be recognized that the market for RME will likely grow more towards smaller devices for home/mobile studios and less for the high-end professional market simply because that's where the industry seems to be shifting these days.  So between the big consoles and their high-end consumer products like the DACs there's definitely a big gap that is only likely to grow in the future and which likely hasn't been recognized as important enough to prompt the company to implement this simple little thing.  If they do then perhaps it can outweigh the first two points and at least give us the option to turn on/off a functionality like this.

There is also the question of how far this functionality can be implemented in an elegant way.  If they only do it for the Main volume fader then some people might scratch their heads and question why only for that and not for anything else.

I have been using your volume control tool for about a year now without a single issue.  I would like to ask if it's possible that you can upload a release without all the dependencies.  It should be simple enough for people to install .NET 6.0 Runtime and once installed there is no need for these files to be present in every software that uses them.