RME TotalMix Training Session - Session One - The Fundamentals 

These sessions will be golden for me. Thanks Barry.

Best walkthrough on this software BY FAR. A bit embarrassed to admit, I've been using Total Mix for 10+ years and did not know half of this stuff. I only knew the minimum to get it to function, but of course sometimes things were changed accidentally and I be driving myself crazy trying to figure out what the heck I did. I now have a much more comprehensive understanding of the where, why, how, etc. Big confidence booster. Thank you, Barry!

RME for life!! I'm still on the UCX-2013 and will upgrade to the UFX 3 in the near future. Thanks for sharing the knowledge Brother! Best Wishes!!

Thanks Barry. I love RME but TotalMix is VERY intimidating. Thank you for taking the time to explain it.

Good Stuff Barry. Totalmix FX is VERY powerful, but you are right it takes a while to wrap your head around it. Your pain (learning Totalmix) is our gain with your helpful videos. Going to watch your 2nd video now. Thank you again. Nice work!

Barry, I am so darn happy you got this going. Thank you so much. It way easier to listen to you explain TotalMIx. I hope you post more videos soon on TotalMix!!!

Your teaching is so effective. Slow and patient with a subject a lot of us have tried to relate to traditional consoles, but became confounded because of the unusual approach RME uses. This tutorial is so much needed. Thank you!

Hi Barry. I've been using TotalMix with Nuendo for 20years now and so many people I know who use RME don't understand the mixer. I am so happy you are opening up this amazing tool to so many people. Thank you A hidden feature in Nuendo with RME is the "Direct Monitoring" option that allows Nuendo's control room to control the TotalMix Mixer. This allows for Zero Latency Monitoring with the control room inside Nuendo. This only controls the channels assigned to the control room. Take a TotalMix snapshot before you start experimenting for the first time. this also works in "Studiomode" . Nuendo >Studio > Studio Setup > ASIO UFX+ > Direct Monitoring option. Enjoy

Finally, a tutorial that I can understand. Thank you kind sir and please keep it going.

Excellent explanation of the fundamentals of Total mix. Easy to understand.

🏆🏆🏆BJ. Looking forward to the entire series 🙏🏿

Thank you!!! For years and years I’d only scratched the surface. Totalmix always intimidated me but I feel less dumb now 😊

Barry, I've had my Fireface 800 for probably 20 years or so now, and I never understood TotalMix, but somehow got it to do what I needed it to do. As I was chasing down a latency problem on a new mic on a separate input, I tracked it down to my ignorance of TotalMix, which brought me here. Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting this together. I know more about TotalMix now than I ever have, and that's just your first video! On to the next one!

The RME training vid's are absolute balls.

Thank you so much for taking the time and putting in the work to do this. You are an absolute LEGEND!! Can't wait for the rest!

Thanks Barry, very useful and needed tutorial series. Btw, you can rename channels by double-clicking their names w/o going to channel layout window.

Thank you Barry!

Thank you, Barry!!

Nice Barry, i have been waiting for this tutorial. Your a legend for trying demystify RME for us newbies. Thanks again.

Thank you, Barry! I’ve been waiting for this. Much appreciated!

for 2ROW Mode - it's actually default if your computer (laptop) screen wouldn't fit 3 rows, for ex. MacBook Pro 13" 2012 with 1280x800 display resolution :)

Awesome!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

Barry, thanks for putting these together. I learned a few things in this first one and will probably learn much more in the next one. I have the RME UCXII and a Focusrite Clarett+ 8 Pre. I use the 8 Pre for drums and the RME for everything else. I have a couple of mic pres and am just getting started with the 500 series gear. I hope you will cover hardware inserts. I am currently using Cubase Pro 12. I have been trying ProTools Artist, but it has been crashing on my M1 MacBook Pro on Sonoma. We will be taking a look at Session Two after I rest my brain a bit. Thanks again for all of the hard work. I still owe you a beer at Captain Tony's in Key West.

thank you so much!!! Ah man, so greatful!

Just what I needed, thank you!!

Excellent. You are spot on about the RME tutorials - they fried my brain! This series of tutorials however have brought clarity and calmness to my aging neurons.

I absolutely love the way you explain everything! I will be jumping into RME within the next year so I'm really grateful that you've done this! Thank you

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

Magic! Clear, concise explanation for what I consider a complex but of software! Thanks BJ!!

Just Recently purchased the UFX 3 and this helped alot! Thanks Barry!

Please more, THANKS Barry

Thank you Barry.

Thank you very much Mr. Barry was totally blind. Congratulations on your videos

Glad you're covering this.

Great walk through!

Great Video!!!! Many thanks!

Ive used TM for 15 years - still don't understand it :) This will def help me out. THANKS

Thank you very much 😍😍

Dude! This video is a HUGE help! I've been using RME (DSP Digiface and Babyface Pro) for more years than I can count, along with Cubase. TotalMix has always been a challenge and I have often thrown my arms up in frustration. Your video sheds so much light and unshrouds so much mystery. Thank you for your excellent videos and keep up the good work.

Great video Barry, I'm a newbe to the RME & Ferro Fish 16 and have soooo much to learn, these video's are soooo helpful... many thanks Tony

This is the type of thing I was looking for. I really appreciate the time and effort you put on this material Barry. Much appreciated.

thanks barry, awesome stuff. i struggled with this about 15 yrs ago with the FF800, I also got UFXII and learned a lot through trial and error and the RME synthax and other tutorials. some of these i have waye hed many many times. thx again

Thanks Barry these will be super helpful! Just getting back into RME with the UCX II and Babyface Pro FS just waiting on the backorders of both. 😊

Very helpful, thanks a lot.

Thanks for doing this. Wish this was around a few months ago. I find naming channels, for me, easier by double clicking at top of channels in main window., rather than opening seperate window. But same difference. Keep up the good work.

So much appreciate your walking us through the nuts and bolts with such patience and attention to detail. You are enabling unimaginable musical prospects and possibilities with this instruction.

Appreciate the intro. Just picked up an RME and Total Mix is pretty overwhelming!

Great video, I experienced same problems and still I'm not capable of controlling Totalmix the way I want. Please share more content about it. I'll really apreciate your effort. Thanks

Just got a ucx ii and the sound blew me away. Then I opened total mix 😂THANK YOU BARRY

Thx for doing this.

Thank you! really helps!

awesom ! yer a hero!

God bless you, Barry. Just … bless you. I bought an RME a month ago and it’s been a bear for a minute.

Nice intro to TotalMix! I've actually been using RME gear and TotalMix for about 10 years now but I always get the feeling that I learned just enough to get it to do what I want and I'm not taking for advantage of some really powerful possibilities. Excited to check out the rest of the series!

I love you man!!

Thank you thank you thank you!! Just hooked up my UFX and Ferrofish briefly looked at total mix and thought “ NOW WHAT”! As soon as I saw this, the mist started to clear.

Can't thank you enough.

Thanks Barry your videos have given me the confidence to cross dress too. I also have a nasal hillbilly timbre in my voice but thanks to your advice with Waves plugins, I’ll probably be back on top of the billboard charts. ❤

Thank you, I have an Hybrid mixing setup for recording and mixing with a Fireface802 + Ferrofish Pulse 16...and I never ever use Total mix...I guess this Is the right time to learn what I have been missing untill now.

It definitely takes a while to master it, (I learned a bit here even though i’ve used it for many years). But it sure is amazingly powerful once you figure it out. RME is the only interfaces I would even consider these days. I currently have an 802 after selling my original UFX for one of the old Apollo’s and regretting it. The new UFX III’s have me drooling. Maybe someday soon. Cheers, thanks for this Barry!

Very good tutorial thank you

Thanks!

You are absolutely correct about totalmix being illogical. You are also correct about warm audio quality control issues. I bought a brand new wa73 eq and the wa47. The wa73eq had scratchy sounding pots on the eq from day one. The wa47 sounded good but developed a hum three years later that I couldn't fix. (Subscribed)

Hi Barry, thank you so much for this, I am waiting to get the Fireface UCX II, it looks like they will be back in stock at the end of this month, so these videos will help me a lot to get things set up 🙃

Cornbread English is the best thing that happened to me all week!

Ok…. We need more and ASAP!

thanks to you Berry, I finally decided to buy my brand new UCX III. it will come soon, but right now I'm not anymore intimidated by Totalmix. thanks a lot, bud!

For me it's very important to have an audio interface with dsp mixer like total mix fx. It is very helpful when streaming and recording because it doesn't push the cpu of your computer. Rme babyface is one of my choices for next audio interface and one of the reasons is totalmix.

I think one of the MOST confusing aspects of TotalMix for someone who has never used it is the fact that looking at the TOP ROW (inputs), the BOTTOM number(s) represent how that INPUT is routed. If you switch that input routing to another OUTPUT, your faders will reset, and you are then looking at how that INPUT routes to another channel / output. It will switch the view for EVERY input...so you have to pay attention to the routing, because EVERY input is routable to EVERY output simultaneously (if desired). It's also confusing that RME placed the section labels at the BOTTOM of the row instead of the top...but that is just a nit pick.

Thank you so much! I love rme but TotalMix keeps driving me crazy to the point that on some days I give up recording.

For S/PDIF coax, you don't need a converter box. All you need is one digital (110 Ohm) XLR female->RCA and one digital (110 Ohm) XLR male->RCA cable ... and set "AES Format" in MADIface Settings to "Consumer". Also you can rename channels with doubleclick on their names above the channel faders.

Thanks for doing this. I been trying to figure out TotalMix for a couple years.

RME definitely need to update their TotalMix mixer and the built in reverb

A fab tutorial. And even better it is a series! Liked, subbed and will certainly frequently revisit. I dig my RME interfaces but TotalMix has always been a puzzle. Yes, there is a handbook, but I prefer trying things out. And this is where things go south as TotalMix is not intuitive. And once you mess around with the faders, well, as Barry clearly says: Don‘t do that! Great job, Barry - looking forward to finally unlocking the power of TotalMix! Question: can you pls do a dedicated session on how to use hardware effects in TotalMix ?

TotalMix while using an Octamic XTC is another thing I've been struggling with since there are so many options to send the control signal to the mic pre extension device however the great thing about it is the ability to control all the 48V, AutoSet, pad and of course gain from TotalMix on the additional mic pres. I've had a few problems with the UFX and Octamic somehow getting out of sync with one at 192 and the other at 96 or some other combination. I've also noticed maybe, not quite sure yet, that it is best to have TotalMix running before powering on the interface and any aux devices. This may be pure luck but it seems to prevent some configuration sync issues.

YEA MAN!!!! Keep coming with that RME CORNBREAD......Thanks so much....Hope the toe is better....LOL

TotalMix? This is the Way.

Barry, my daughter said you need some throat coat tea when doing these videos. Other than that everything is perfect! This was a great review and I learned a few new things. UFX+ brother here.

Great videos. For me, Total Mix wasn't TERRIBLE to learn, but the loopback and how it ends back up on an analog input is always confusing to me. Also, the BabyFace Pro in particular doesn't seem to work well with OBS for live streaming. I don't know if that's just the BF, or if it's all RME interfaces. You have to download and install two other applications to "route" the audio in MacOS to get it to show up in OBS. Very frustrating. Other than that, I wish they would have allowed use of the DSP in TotalMix for the BF to have compression. I was disappointed when it didn't.

Great content...that's always the problems with the Germans (me being one of them) driving people nuts with making things as complicated as possible...there are hundreds of similar examples, always being difficult....thanks for your video!

Awesome can you do one on the Adat set up as well please

Thanks Barry! (I got the first edition UFX, pretty happy with those converters but I wonder how much better the UFX+ or the recent UFX III converters are compared to the original)

Cornbread over German Engineer Geekspeak every dang time! Thanks so much for doing this. Stupid Q. What is user case scenario for adat OUT? I get adat in, from external pres as example, but out? Used as a virtual routing inside daw? Not quite sure I understand it's functionality. Thx. Keep em coming.

Thanks, I shave my head, but I'm still pulling my hair out with total mix:)

dadman is next for me lol

Thank you very much for the video. Could you elaborate more on how you connected your Kemper to AES? Do I simply buy two RCA to XLR wires that I see a lot on Amazonset the AES input on the Fireface as SPDIF? Or does it need to be a special type of cable or converter? Thank you!

On time barry johnson because i want to. Buy a rme but i cant find much tutorial about total mix

It sounds a bit like my new endeavor to learn to make beats on the Akai MPC X. It is so different than using a DAW to make music. The workflow is entirely different.

I am also planning to shift to RME and your lessons will be immensely helpful, Would you take pain to clarify me whether I should buy RME UCX-II or Babyface Pro FS, is there any sound difference between them.

Barry, I kept hearing clicks and pops then I discovered this check box called "Iso Streaming" on the RME driver ( I have a RME UFX III). I had no clue what it does I read and read it and still do not understand it. I checked the box and guess what? I the once in awhile pops and clicks went away. Its different than the buffer size effect. Can you go over that at all? I would appreciate it.

Regarding the playback fader, is it best practice to leave that all the way up for a basic setup, then adjust volume via the output or in DAW/system, or can you lower the playback fader as an effective way to limit system audio? In my setup, I usually have that slider about 1/2 way to 3/4 up depending on content, but my output slider is pretty low too - yet the levels all work out and I haven’t had any real issues so far, just asking for best practice. I typically keep my output between -18 and -22.

Please video make on Mac studio M1 Max vutural instrument test for music composing

BTW I lost my FX on my UFX some years ago-not sure if you heard about that issue..? Cant remember but something to do with on baord RAM/memory..

Good stuff sir. What camera are you using to shoot videos ?

Helping you helping people: A video which explains to you the logic of Total Mix within the first 7 minutes is to be found on the channel REM USA Audio - Synthax and is called “An In Depth Look At TotalMix FX”. The rest of that video is also very informative and contains almost all aspects and options of RME TotalMix FX very, very , very ,very well explained. I think it’s the best video so far on YT concerning RME Total Mix FX. So your knowledge of this video could have saved you tons of time.

Hi, I have been working on my routing setup in TotalMix with my Babyface Pro FS to have clean, low latency sound on my Vox, Gtr, drum pad, and midi instruments in separate tracks) for setting custom panning etc and I'm looking to have this done in Totalmix so I could then bring it into a Livestream, plus recording of live session. Do you have guidance in this? I'm watching your videos for a second time. thank you! Shure Sm7B ➡️Royer In-Line Signal Booster➡️RME Babyface Pro XLR in {Channel 1} ➡️USB port Comp (Controlled in TotalMix [Part of Babyface Pro]) Microphone TC-Helicon MP-85 ➡️ TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Guitar and Vocal Effects Processor Pedal ➡️ RME Babyface Pro (XLR in - Stereo)➡️USB port Comp (Controlled in TotalMix [Part of Babyface Pro]) Instruments: Electric Guitar ➡️ TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Guitar and Vocal Effects Processor Pedal ➡️(¼ inch Cable in - Mono)RME Babyface Pro ➡️USB port Comp (Controlled in ‘Instrument 3’ TotalMix [Part of Babyface Pro]) Handsonic Drumpad ➡️(¼ inch Cable in - Mono)RME Babyface Pro ➡️USB port Comp (Controlled in ‘Chan 3 Drums)’ TotalMix [Part of Babyface Pro]) 1/4Inch out ➡️ to Aux in TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Guitar and Vocal Effects Processor Pedal Akai MPK 261 MIDI Keyboard ➡️USB port Comp Used in EastWest Opus (Multi instrument sound bank triggered by Midi keyboard) Plus monitor other computer from other programs like Adobe character animator. THANK YOU!!

Does DAW mode really work. Is it fully useable. You know.. till I figure it all out.

Does the total reset erase your saved snap shots?

Hi Barry, how can I lower only the audio of the base in the headphones, while recording my voice with the microphone? Thanks in advance. Mauro

Barry what is the converter you use for spdif to aes ? also do you use any converter from spidif to adat ?