RME Total Mix Explained^®

Very informative

learned alot and was straight to the point, and clear.

Very helpful

Very good, helped me a lot understanding RME

Beats reading the manual!

TotalMix FX is pretty complex, and while RME provides an excellent manual, it's not necessarily organised in a very user friendly way. More of a technical manual than a user manual. This video clearly runs down about 97% of the options in in TotalMix, as well as a few workflow and creative ideas. It's still mostly technical, and real-world use will have to be fine-tuned by the user in terms of how to musically set things up (while some usage cases are discussed, there's no "here's how to set up for overdubs" or that sort of thing). Not that this is missing all of the Direct Recording functions from the newer RME devices with DURECorder usb drive inputs. Also absent is a section talking about how to integrate TotalMix with a DAW and pros and cons of using it over whatever's built into your DAW for monitoring, or which parts of TotalMix you might want to use in place of what's included in your DAW. That would make the tutorial a lot longer, but really would be helpful, IMHO. Thankfully, lots of these gaps are filled for free on RME's own website.

An indispensible video manual

Total Mix FX is amazingly comprehensive and equally difficult to understand. The videos produced by RME on their site and on YouTube are completely inadequate for any sort of understanding. This Groove3 video, however, is quite brilliant. Exhaustive and clear. I have purchased it as a download for reference. Congratulations!

VERY THOROUGH AND CLEARLY EXPLAINED!

This software can be rather intimidating. However, this tutorial gives you the complete nitty gritty details to help you thoroughly understand every aspect of the software. You need to pause and experiment to really get to grips with it. Once you have, you will never look back. Unless, that is, you need a quick top up!

I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV

Good!

Good!

I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Beat Maker, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Logic Pro

Great explanations but watch that mouse!

I think the explanations were well organized, very clear, and thorough so job well done. That said, I think the visuals could have been better. The mouse pointer is very difficult to see on the TotalMIX window because of the colours involved (black/white pointer on a dark grey window that has many white details) and if you blink, the mouse magically disappears until it's moved and you go "Oh, there it is!" The visuals would have been much easier to follow if the pointer had a coloured halo and the highlighting was animated when the mouse was clicked. Given the effort put into developing the video, I'm really surprised this more-than-a-detail was overlooked. I've had an RME Fireface UC for 7 (?) years now. Fabulous piece of gear. TotalMIX is very, very good, too, although it does have a quirk or two, like why the software playback channels have the names that they do. They seem totally unjustified (e.g. the SPDIF software playback channel seems to have nothing to do with the SPDIF hardware inputs or outputs--unless I'm missing something). I was hoping the video might explain the reasoning for the names but it did not. No big deal but I'm still left wondering...

I am a: Hobbyist

Good job

Great! clear...concise. Love RME products and this opened a whole new world

I am a: Producer, Professional, Musician

RME TOTAL MIX EXPLAINED

Total Mix may be a little confusing at first until you understand the logic, more so because of all possibilities of features available to control, particularly with RME UFX interface.

I am a: Semi-Pro, Mastering Facility, Producer, Audio Engineer, Musician, Hobbyist

A Little too Vanilla for Price

RME TotalMix is a piece of software that is flexible depending on RME product purchased. While making a general course is great, there should be additional episodes that cover the various hardware ie Babyface Pro/compatible midi controllers/Ipad integration that interact with TotalMix. A short recording session to show the EQ, echo, compression, and Talkback features would have been very helpful.

I am a: Hobbyist, Beat Maker