User names for routing??

Proposal: simply route in submix mode, based on a per HW output routing perspective.
It's even more exact as you can clearly see the submix of that particular output.

I have been considering patching all of my hardware I/O to/ from my outboard into the respective converters as well and using Totalmix as a patchbay. I am not at my studio at the moment but this confuses me. Does this imply that if you use submix mode, the named output channels will appear under the playback and input channels and the names of the input channels will appear under the output channels if I want to send a playback signal to a processor and then return it to an input channel from the output of the processor? I would be sending 56 analog outputs from outboard processors into AD converters and returning an additional 56 from my DA converters to my analog inputs in different configurations by creating different workspaces and snapshots. Without being able to see names in the drop downs rather than numbers, I think it would be extremely tedious. I’m perhaps misunderstanding something?

Thanks

There really needs to be an option for this under "View Options".

I have to keep a piece of paper with the hardware/channel relationships at the console to reference the Name instead of Channel every time I want to change the send gain to a specific external hardware effect for a specific channel. It would make using TotalMix so much more intuitive.

Dear RME, it's been a while.

Would it really hurt to add the user names in the drop down?

This is the workflow :
need the number, click names, remember the number, forget the number.  Again and again, for any channel.
Instead of just using the drop down with the names in it. Absurd.

Read the thread from the beginning, then it is obvious..

bumping this again. any chance we can get this in 2.0?

+1

+1

Also, please consider allowing longer user defined names — 11 characters is quite limiting.
If necessary, truncate names, but show the full name in a tooltip when hovering with the mouse over the field for a moment, maybe with a configurable delay between approx 500 - 3000 ms.

Hmm, where? I just looked at the UFX III display and pushed Chan/Mix.
The names there in the green field are "standard", no user-defined names, and seem to allow more than 11 characters.
For example, in the green field, "Mic/Instrument 12": these are 17 chars, and there is still some room to the left and to the right.

Approximately 23 characters seem possible, and regarding the display, the rest could be truncated.
In the TM FX software, you could use "balloon tips" as I mentioned above.

The ideal solution would be to have one smaller and one longer field that fits devices/displays and one longer for TotalMix
which also needs to fit for the free routing mode.

The "Names" field should also toggle the view of free routing mode, standard names, or user-defined names.

P.S.: I am 99.9% working in TM FX. Is there an option that I overlooked to make user-defined names visible in the device's display?

Therefore, I tend to say the focus should be on having the benefit in TM FX, maybe not on the device itself.
Stand-alone mode is more kind of an "exceptional" handling.
If you have an Apple tablet, you can even use the TM FX application.