Anyone having trouble with R-Mix?

No one's having these issues or no one's using R-Mix Sonar?  It looked like a potentially good way to deal with a particularly nasty noise problem I have on a track, but the experience was disappointing.  Also, I'm not sure about the quality of post R-Mix sound, though I'm sure it isn't supposed to be suspect.  Anyone?
 

Yeah, having issues sometimes. Like the "energy" display will stop updating. The usual reason for the display crammed to the left is a mono track. But I got it once for a stereo (master) bus.

I just tried putting R-Mix on a track. After one beat, it killed all of the sound on all of the tracks except one (not the one with R-Mix on it). To be exact, I put R-Mix on the bass track, and it muted everything except a MIDI drum track. And on that drum track, the bass drum is now playing at about 25% of the normal volume. 

Thus ends my experience with R-Mix, until they fix it. I had tried it previously on a project with a single track and it worked great. But this sucks. 

rcrees

I started another thread about how well R-Mix worked for me... really sorry you're having problems, but it seems that they have something to do with routing... not R-Mix. R-Mix is an FX and should only affect the track it's placed on. In  your case, R-Mix is affecting the entire mix. It would be the equivalent of adding a reverb to one track and having the reverb applied to the entire mix. Does this happen with you? Where are you inserting R-Mix? The fact that you tried R-Mix on a single track and it worked great shows that R-Mix is not broken, it's just a matter of figuring out your routing.

Best of luck,
Rob

I put in in the FX bin, and also in an FX chain in the Pro Channel. Same result each time. There is no reason why R-Mix should affect any other track, as you say. If I try another effect in the track, it affects only that track, as expected. This is a problem peculiar to R-Mix, as far as this project is concerned anyway.  It's also interesting that it's not cutting the sound out straight away - the first beat sounds, and then everything cuts out. 


I just tried it in another project, inserting it in a synth bass track. This time, it doesn't affect other tracks, but one beat out of every bar cuts out, no matter how I set the window or the levels up. The "energy" display just turns off and the sound goes off. 


For whatever reason it's affecting some people negatively and not others, it's undoubtedly a very buggy plugin and I'm going to leave it alone until such time as Cakewalk provide an update. It's a shame because it has a lot of potential. 

bvideo


Since R-mix introduces latency, it apparently stresses the midi prepare buffer. The recommended setting is 500 ms (or up?).

How dare you fully solve my problem and restore my faith in R-Mix! Of all the......

I know exactly what Magbass is talking about. The same thing happened to me. I haven't used it since. 

MagBass I figured it out.  On the trk select stereo and it will place the signal in the middle where it belongs. It worked for me. Hope this helps you. 

doriginal


MagBass I figured it out.  On the trk select stereo and it will place the signal in the middle where it belongs. It worked for me. Hope this helps you. 

When you say select stereo do you mean the Interleave of the track?

I've been fooling with it a bit more after reading this and @rcrees' thread further and found that one of my problems was as I suspect you're mentioning: that you have to be using a stereo track to begin with.  The first tracks I tried were actually mono tracks, so that was my fault.  The problems with not being able to control the Frame properly may have to do with my video card, as I don't have those troubles at all on my notebook.  So, now to see what I can do about that...

The plugin is kind of interesting, so I suppose I'd change video cards if that's what it takes to get it running.