Second update for beta 5.

Some notes on the new level meters:

In Touch OSC there are no level meters. The proposed workaround of partly hiddden faders is not ideal, as you have only one color for the whole bar, and the meters are still real faders that you can drag! Will not do any harm, but still not really professional.

The level data that we send is the peak meter data, not the RMS data (RMS makes no sense here as you would never see peaks). Beta 5 includes a 20 dB/s release time for a smoth look.

'Over' is only displayed when Peak Hold is activated in the TM FX OSC settings tab, by the upper area of the level meters: 0 dB to +6 dB lights up then. Activating Peak Hold mode in TM FX controls the speed of the meters together with the show time of the overs.

In a later version OVR messages will be handled independent from the level meter data.

The new TM and Touch OSC template are great!  Thanks, Matthias.

Looking forward to trying out the iPhone version soon.  Thanks, Mats, for building the template and sharing.

Few bugs found I think:

- Level meter in Channel strip ain't stereo. It's always taking signal from left channel. Working in stereo at 'mixer' display.
- When pressing low cut (from TouchOsc) channel strip graphics at total mix ain't updated if EQ display is visible. Graphics are updated rightaway if same button is pressed from TotalMix. If EQ ain't visible (u are ex @ dynamics) and you are pressing low cut then graphics is ok at TotalMix when switching back to EQ. Low Cut -feature itself is working. Seems to be just graphics glitch.
- TouchOsc seems to 'freeze' time to time. Starts working again when touching screen. Ain't happening for me earlier.
- Cue button status ain't always updated currently @ TouchOsc. If you press it on at TotalMix it won't always be updated to TouchOsc. Very easy to get status mismatch between devices
- pressing 'S' at channel strip when at output channel always changes submic to Main without warning.
- One time I got TotalMix into state that I wasn't able to change recorded channels. TotalMix just didn't do it. This problem went away with restart of TotalMix. Wasn't able to reproduce.

My specs: USB 1.69 - Firmware 352 - DSP 1.51 - TouchOsc 1.8.1 - Macbook Pro 10.7.3/4 (don't remember for sure)

What of these are actual bugs?

-J-

What about a official lemur template? Any news on that?

If I have time I might try adding the levelmeters to mine.....

Does that mean faders moved in TM FX do not cause faders in TOSC to follow? I still don't understand the 'freeze' completely.

Basically you can easily produce all kinds of lags, timeouts, problems with Wi-Fi that is not working 100%. Even using a laptop with TM FX via Wi-Fi to the router (instead of LAN), and the iPad via Wi-Fi too is already lowering performance - while the bandwidth actually used is ridiculously low. The current way of communication seems to have a very low priority.

View Options problem confirmed, fix coming soon. Thanks!

The UC can't get an EQ. this must be a graphical glitch. the EQ is a hardware feature that is missing in the UC

Just to bump my question:

Is it planned to support multiple OSC clients controlling TMFX (or submixes of it). This would be perfect for using TMFX as a digital monitor mixer. Everyone could login via smartphone/tablet and control its own mix.

Thanks,
BurtaN

+100000000000000 on this. If presonus could do it, then RME should be able to kill it for sure!

This has been requested in the past, and i continue think it would be fantastic!  It would open up a large new market for RME products.

I know

That's the reason why I was very surprised to see it, and almost thought there was some new magic allowing UC to gain horsepower for extra effects;)

- Mario

It should be interesting to test how priority options in the router can affect this. My router (Fritz!Box 7270) only allows priority settings for internet traffic, but maybe these affect local traffic, too!? I'll try to test this next week.

And somewhere I also still own a CFOS license, which also allows manual priority settings on the computer/client itself. So there may be some ways of working around (W)lan specific lags.

Philippe, try to open Preferences (F2) and disable the D2D support. Maybe it works then. Did you remove the extra dll that we added before? It is no longer needed.

Thanks. We will check D2D on a nVidia mobile graphics chip and report back.

Direct2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. The Direct2D API is designed to interoperate well with GDI, GDI+, and Direct3D.

EDIT: Link didn't seem to work. MC already explained the benefits.

Basically, what it gives is a performance increase in the rendering of Totalmix. IME it boosted the performance in window rendering quite significantly on my Mac Mini server, which has a very limited graphics performance to begin with.

Thanks Matts and Mathias for the explanation. As I said I never noticed an issue before on my system, but it is always good to have improved performance.  By the way, I never heard of "direct 2D" and I suspect others may also be unaware of it.  It may be worth including some additional information in the manual so people know what this feature is for.

Please make EQ in software inputs on UFX. It is possible?

One thing that seams odd is that i'm not able to see everything on the right if I expand all panels.
TotalMix is resizable horizontally but not vertically.

A rework seams like a good idea. I really like the direction that TotalMix is taking.
I get that all the parameters and information that is available in the right panel may be hard to implement when restricted to a fixed pixel height. I also think that it's good practice to keep this fixed height for smaller monitor environments.

The only thing that was bothering me is that it sometimes requires several clicks to expand a panel - first closing one to get to the other. Maybe some kind of vertically aligned tabs with labels would help getting to the required panel with only one click?

Half true. The level meter needs a kick to start working. I found the reason and the solution (it seems). The TOSC pages must be referenced to the correct TotalMix page. For space reasons Mats has spread elements of one TM page (2) on two pages in TOSC (2 and 3). I changed the reference of page 3 to 2 and page 4 to 3 in the TOSC editor, so page 2 now exists two times, and page 4 is correctly referenced to 3. This also fixes the initial display of page 4 (FX) which did not show the correct values. Please check your mail.

Thanks Mats.

I also updated the links of TotalMix FX in the first post. We make a jump from version 0.981 to 0.983. Numerous small bug fixes again. The Matrix has been reworked as it ate some CPU, especially with units having lots of channels.

We now hope that this version will be part of officially released drivers next week. No new features anymore, but if someone still finds a bug we will try to fix it quickly.

That has never been different. You are limited to the fader position of the Main out. That prevents you from blowing your speakers when you monitor at -20 and then hit Cue of a 0 dB full scale signal channel...

That looks more like a real bug. We'll check tomorrow. Thanks!

Isn't about time that RME nailed its colours to the mast and declared it TMFX 1.0???

(Actually it wouldn't really arrive until someone found the first residual bug and generated TMFX V1.01!)