Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer

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fret_man
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2012/06/24 00:48:15 (permalink)

Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer

Newbie here with a question on how RME's TotalMix (Fireface UFX) and Sonar X1 Procuder Expanded interact with each other. When running Sonar, should I have TotalMix running as well? When I assign a track to the Sonar Master output, I get no audio regardless of how I adjust the Sonar Master faders. However I DO get audio if I adjust the Totalmix Master faders. If I assign a track to the one of the headphones I can get some strange fader controls depending on how I adjust them from Sonar or Totalmix. Sometimes when I adjust a fader in Sonar I can see it move in TotalMix as well. Sometimes not. Are they interacting together in a bad way? Should I only be running one of them at a time? Or do I need both running and need to keep fiddlng with them to get a reasonable result (like the Sonar Master faders working)? How do you use the two applications? Thx!
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    Jimbo 88
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    Re:Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer 2012/06/24 09:00:40 (permalink)
    Ok,  I'm not a good tech guy, but nobody has chimed in, so here goes i what I know....

    I'm guessing that Totalmix is the how you configure your RME Fireface.  So you configure your RME,  exit out of totalmix and hopefully you have little interaction with it.  I will open my RME driver and raise the buffer size when I'm getting lots of pops and clicks due to extremely high track count and plugins,   but I normally do not touch that program.  Set it up and go...

    I purchased an RME Fireface 400 years ago and I'm very happy with it.  The reason i can't answer your question better is 'cause I plugged it in and it has not given me any trouble for years...I have not thought about it.

    Hope I helped and if I did not I'm sure someone will chime in with better info.
          
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    Jimbo 88
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    Re:Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer 2012/06/24 09:09:34 (permalink)
    Oh and by the way ...   welcome to the forum!
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    peregrine
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    Re:Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer 2012/06/24 12:00:46 (permalink)
    Your manual is here: http://www.rme-audio.de/download/fface_ufx_e.pdf

    One of my interfaces is an HDSPe AIO, so my totalmix is probably a little different than yours. I have  global presets for the different setups I use, and number 1 is reserved for the factory preset that sets everything straight in to out at 1:1.  If you don't have global presets available and no one else answers here (I'm sure someone around here is using a mac), you'll need to read through the Totalmix chapter or work with RME support to get your routings straightened out. It really is a good interface; it just has a complex architecture that takes time to understand. It can affect input levels to your DAW, so you need to at least get educated enough that you understand how that part works. You can forget about the control room, the channel strip effects, and the other 100 pages of the manual.  Just sit down with a hard copy of the totalmix chapter and work through what they discuss. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
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    Re:Totalmix & Sonar X1 Producer 2012/06/24 12:41:57 (permalink)
    I am using fireface 800 and octamic(d) with sonar and totalmix. Loads of video's on how this works on the youtube rme site plus the rme forum. Totalmix is amzing how you can route channels with it.
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