Is RMIX working well for you ?

I was completing a mix in X2 (from X1 project). At the end of the mix, I was just trying out RMIX inserted on the main bus. Maybe this is not the way it's intended (on a main bus) ?

RMIX causes the audio to be in jerky motion, but it's not like too low latency effect, just missing audio here and there, no clicks/pops. I increase the RMIX selection square box to maximize it, still the same. Increasing ASIO buffer also did not help.

I do not think it's my machine spec, it's pretty recent.

How is your RMIX experience so far ?

I was actually just playing around with it on a stereo .wav file and it seems to be working fine.  I'm not sure what practical uses I'll find for it, but it sure is a very cool plugin.

My experience has been that it works ok on audio tracks, but doesn't work well on synth outputs.

I like Rmix as a filter but am not sure I'll use it beyond that. For many of the things I would think to use it for I can get better results using iZotope RX and combinations of mid-side and plugins. More work, but it sounds better.

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Not sure why it adds so much latency though. 

I'm going to experiment with R-Mix to give a particular track a widened mix. Take one synth track. Add two sends to two busses. One bus panned hard left the other hard right. The main synth track panned to centre.

Add R-Mix to the effects bin of both busses.

In the bus panned hard left, in R-Mix position the rectangle such that it only includes the left hand side of the spectrum. And you could probably size the rectangle to eliminate some rogue stuff that is already to the far left, unless it brings something to the party.

Repeat the process for the bus panned hard right.

You could then add some subtle reverb or chorus effects to the busses and something different to the track.


Probably a load of rubbish all that, but I might give it a go later tonight and see what happens. The Sonar routing options might scupper me plans... At the end of the day, I'm trying to think of ways I can use R-Mix other than for "cleaning" up audio.

Okay tunekicker. It'll probably be the weekend now before I get onto this. It's certainly worth experimenting with anyway.

R-mix, as far as I can tell, is a interesting sound design tool.  Unless you are doing karoke mixes I can't imagine it being a front line tool, but obviously there are all kinds of other uses for it.  I like the widening idea above and can see all kinds of riffs on that.  Panning w/ different frequencies is a take off of that idea.  Swooshes starting in the left channel and bass, rising to the right w/ only high frequencies.

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Two things happened for me with R-mix. The worst was a runaway static noise that kept getting louder and louder. I stopped the audio engine and when I restarted it the noise kept going (playback not engaged). Happened once, but it's scary loud and I'm worried about it happening again when I am not close enough to the volume knob. Second thing is R-mix stops updating its real-time color display. Closing and reopening gets it going again. By the way, it adds latency.

Same issue on the runaway for me, a feedback loop.  I also have had the color display flatten out to a ribbon about 1/8th of an inch wide, moved all the way over to the left.   I thought it was because I added it to a mono track at first, but its happened now on stereo tracks.  The only think I can pinpoint that is the same is that I am adding it to a track while the song is playing.  It hasn't done it when I added to a track while it was stopped. Neat little tool though. 

LLyons: I had the left-side-only bar happen once also, and it cleared up by exiting and restarting. And yes, it also shows up that way on a bus when a track or earlier bus has interleave set to mono.

I tested it again, with just an exported stereo track, and RMIX is very responsive.

I guess my previous problem was inserting RMIX to the master bus, with many soft synth tracks un-frozen.

Lol, yeah, I couldn't think of a better way of describing/naming the way R-Mix shows the sounds on its little screen. "Blobs" is the best I could come up with :-D

I wonder what the real technical term is for that?