How to use Hardware Send Effects in TotalMix FX 

This video is big on the what, but I didn't understand the how, ie I found out a lot about what Totalmix can do, but I didn't get a handle on how I can do it. It might be me, but I have found tutorials by other contributors (Barry Johns for example) much clearer to understand.

Very helpful; thank you. I think I finally understand this. FWIW I think I'd prefer to record the effected audio to a separate DAW track so I can tweak the blend later as the mix becomes more finalized. Thus no need to set up a loopback channel.

"note that the input channel 5 & 6 is the return channel from the hardware effect..." {at 2.02}. Only one problem...there is no sign on screen of 'channel 5 & 6. Clear as mud. How can we be expected to understand this ?

Consumer Feedback: Add the ability to load 3d party plugins into totalmix and you will takeover the market. A simple software update. Happy New Years Rme!

However unfortunately there is a small latency that you can hear doubling. Try dry signals. But still much better than other interface. 20yrs RME user all my converters are RME. 😊

Can you do a video using the AES input/output on a interface and the routing in TotalMix FX?

Are there any videos from RME on how to set up send/return on ableton with total mix? I keep hearing the reverb mix with the main out :/

Wow .. 🤩

Is this possible with XLR ports? I have a Babyface Pro FS and was wondering if I can do this. That said, thank you for this demo!

Thank you!

Totalmix "tricky"to use with Cubase - to put it very mildly. I want to do something seemingly simple, which is to add an external Hardware insert to a track in Cubase. With any other interface it couldn't be more straightforward, but with an RME interface there seems no way to make the Steinberg routing work hand in hand with Total mix!

CAN RME UCX1 can use main output Room EQ(TotalMix ) like UCX2? thanks

This is fine for time based effects like delays and reverb, but by coincidence I was experimenting with this myself earlier today and when for example using a distortion unit, the phasing between the dry and wet signal was noticeable enough to be annoying and I had to go back to using a hardware mixer. If you have any tips for avoiding this problem it would be great, as then I can get rid of the hardware mixer ;)

Hey there, how do you send FX with RME Babyface Pro? There is a reverb on my cheap behringer mixer that I want to add to some dry vocals. Thanks heaps.

Hi, what's the difference between doing a hardware insert and a hardware send/return? I've watched both videos and they seem the same to me. Many thanks!

Can you route also a track from ableton through a hardware efdect and then back in?

Could this be possible with just a babyface pro fs, using the phone output that goes in send? Thanks

It would be very nice if TotalMix FX had the GUI such that you could "assign" particular outputs as sends and certain inputs as returns and then there would be send-knobs on each channel as assigned. This would make the user experience better by abstracting all that routing behind simpler user interface. Obviously having a delay compensation might be an issue, meaning that since no system is ever actually "zero latency" you always need to add delays to other channels to compensate... but hmm...

Is it possible to mix with the totalmix DSP plugins not at tracking level but mixing a recorded song? I mean make the tracks go out of my daw separately to the totalmix use the Eq and Compr for every channel individually, and make it back to the Daw individually? I have a UCX. I´ve looked for a video explaining it and I didn´t find it. Thanks

Hello, please could you tell me if I can connect a stereo reverb hardware effect on two condenser microphones and listening to the effected signal only through the headphones output of a Babyface pro fs? Also is it possible to do this without connecting the Babyface to a computer?

Hi, I have a Digiface Usb, is it possible to create hardware sends like the one in this video also with Total Mix not-Fx like the one that comes with the Digiface? I have a Digiface and 3x Adi 8 DS, I miss the passage in which you create the send/return submixes. Thanks

and how the othe way arround? How can one load a VST in TotalMix and send it to external hardware gear?

How can I do this with the babyface pro? Can I use the headphone out to send to a compressor and back in via the line/instrument input?

what shall i do when i want to have insert oder send effects routing directly to a channel in my DAW(Ableton)? i dont know if i have to do my routing in ableton or in Totalmix?

I don't understand any of these videos. I can't see it explained how to set it up to monitor just the returned (FX) signal only. I have it I can play an uncompressed track in logic (bass or vocals etc), it goes out of Analogue 1 (XLR) into a compressor, back into line input (instrument 3), but I can hear both the dry signal playing in Logic plus the compressed signal, I just need to be able to hear the compressed signal for the few seconds or minutes while I'm dialing in the compressor settings. So it feels I need some kind of extra 'submix' or something in the control room, which only has, for example, the line ins feeding it, so I can only hear what's coming out of the 'line in', and not hear what is coming out of Logic (although obviously that still has to be playing and going out of the XLR AN1). All of these videos seem to have a different Totalmix setup which I can't equate with mine, and then they seem to reference things I can't understand.

How to compress a track by a hardware from daw? Showing the effect but i can't hear it...solution please? In a technical language...how to listen the wet signal from the hardware through monitor or headphone? Thanks in advance Sir❤️🙏

I always end up with a feedback loop, I followed the instructions but the levels are low and the feedback loop goes crazy :(

But no one uses Totalmix as a daw. Of course you won’t notice latency when you’re just sending one stereotrack. And for a mix it’s impossible to bounce return effects for every track. Using a hardware insert realtime in a daw still causes too much latency - any way around that?

Procedure looks the same for the insert effects. I’m confused.

Hi, off topic question but is there a way I can disable the mic inputs and headphone outputs as well as the adat channels so pro tools just sees the first 8 inputs and my madi I/O

Is this postsovjetiska to do with the Babyface?

Cubase 11 und HDSPe AIO Pro PCI Express , danach suche ich ! Gibt es dafür, von euch Erfahrungen ? Hat es einer von euch in der DAW installiert ? wäre schön wenn einer mir erzählen kann , wie zufrieden er/sie /es ist.:-) Ich Liebäugle damit mit ,nur gibt es im Ganzem Netz keine Infos ,wie gut es zusammen funktioniert

Is it possible to run TotalMix monitoring through Sonarworks Reference? Is the only thing i deeply miss about it.

I came here to find a way to do this with my Babyface and then I hear him say UCX. Haha I guess there's no silver bullet. You have to have the interface with outputs to make this happen.

nothing is working...this totalmix fx makes no sense. i never get any output of the fx out

In the video you say "no latency," but what about the time it takes for the signal to reach the external effect, work its way though the processor(s), and then get back to the DAW? Doesn't this involve some unavoidable latency? If I set up a send within Cubase, they provide a way to compensate for latency by pinging the signal path. Wouldn't this be preferable? Here's a video in which this is explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H-N-9AGlrXk.html I tried their method before, and IIRC I still had to use the send/return method in TotalMix. Still, it has the advantage of latency compensation.