WHY RME TOTALMIX FX SUCKS

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[@jimshomestudio]

Your explanations were great. The use of TotalMix goes exactly as you described it, and that took me a while to learn. The software section can do the route reassignments, as this is set up in the DAW, so I wonder if you have an aversion to setting up your DAW session with the channels routed where you want them. I know input monitoring is more precise and latency free, and that’s why most people are adamant about working from inputs. But I do almost everything in the DAW anyway. So my channels are moved side by side, although the inputs are coming from all over the place. I don’t have clients to cater to, and I have a much smaller total channel count from a Fire face UC and UFX, the original editions. No need to send submixes to various headphones. No room correction going on. No ProTools either, it’s FL Studio that does my I/O. So for my much more simplistic needs, my only complaint is keeping the WDM, and Windows to use my Speakers as the default audio channel. Many times Windows boots up with no sound, because the speakers are suddenly assigned to a different channel. That’s it for me. 💪😜

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

@@jimshomestudio thanks, and thanks for watching! Yeah for me input monitoring is crucial for me, I don't monitor in pro tools at all, I do all my control cue monitoring in totalmix and same for headphone submixes. So it's a bit of a nightmare as I'm dealing with up to 20 simultaneous mics a lot of the time and multiple headphone mixes. I love the way totalmix handles monitoring and submixes but it's massively let down by the lack of channel reordering, I find it a huge failure of the software. The only solution really is patch bays, but currently not all my preamps run through patchbays, and it just seems dumb when totalmix is otherwise perfectly capable.

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

@@jimshomestudio agree with how it manages audio in windows too, although I don't have too much issue with it switching output (only happens very occasionally for me.) One thing I find annoying is I have to remember to switch my ufx iii on first before my pc - otherwise windows won't see it and I have to shut down and reboot my pc (restart won't work.)

[@Blewis-Diarrheo]

@@TheBunkhouseStudios Try using it in USB3 mode, it will solve this problem

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

@@Blewis-Diarrheo yeah I'm using it in usb3 mode

[@Blewis-Diarrheo]

@@TheBunkhouseStudios Always get it confused with the UFX+, sorry. If you disable your USB controller and then re-enable, does it recognize?

[@Blewis-Diarrheo]

I'd much rather deal with the actual developers being cold (or simply just not explaining ad nauseum why certain things aren't possible or will take years to rewrite) than deal with talking heads that just yes you to death and not follow through. If you can't handle the realness, then pick up the phone and call Synthax Audio and speak to a support person there. Otherwise, great video - the title alone is enough to perpetuate a false belief that TotalMix is bad. 👏

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

@@Blewis-Diarrheo the video title is really just playing part of the KZbin game, especially for a small channel like mine. It's a balancing act between clickbait and trying to hook people in. I try not to be too clickbaity. Overall I think totalmix is very good, and there's nothing else quite like it on the market imo. But I do find it falls frustratingly short in the areas mentioned in the video, many of which at least to the average user seem fixable. The channel reordering thing is a huge one for me and just seems a bit daft that they won't address it. I see where you're coming from regarding RME support, but personally I don't see it as 'realness' - moreso a lack of customer service skills. Synthax are great but they have no hand in totalmix development! Thanks for watching the video and appreciate your comments ❤️

[@Blewis-Diarrheo]

@@TheBunkhouseStudios Yet Synthax provides a great deal of support, and they're very good at it. You're saying RME has a lack of customer service skills, when Synthax is the one who handles it. I have made MANY inquiries to Synthax over the years and have had great results.