First practical (and very successful) use of R-Mix

I saw Jimmy Landry give a demonstration at Guitar Center in NYC and he touched on using R-Mix to eliminate unwanted sound/noise, etc. from recorded tracks. Turns out I had the perfect use for this...

I had recorded a narration that was going to coincide with music underneath (Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Present).  When I recorded the actor's speech, I let him listen to an improv piano piece I had recorded to give him the mood and feel and timing.  Unfortunately, when I recorded his voice I also recorded the sound of the piano from his headphones.

This became a problem when I wrote the real cue and put his narration on top to give him the timing of the final cue. The sound of the headphone piano was REALLY distracting (different timing).

So, to make a long story short... too late...

I used R-Mix to effectively "remove" the headphone piano from the narration track!  I couldn't believe how easy it was.  With just a little bit of experimenting, it was gone.

R-Mix... try it.... you'll like it!

Thank you, Jimmy
Thank you Cakewalk

As I said, I saw a demonstration and I think it was touched on in the Webinar (highly recommended) as well. I think this helped me to understand how it worked.  One thing you have to get into your head is the whole "inside" "outside" thing. 

rcrees


As I said, I saw a demonstration and I think it was touched on in the Webinar (highly recommended) as well. I think this helped me to understand how it worked.  One thing you have to get into your head is the whole "inside" "outside" thing. 

I'm not having trouble with the concept of it.  It seems much like a very cut down version of part of iZotope RX2.  The problem is it is--for me--very buggy in very odd and unusable ways.  I'm sure CW or Roland will work it out, but right now, on my configuration, the plugin doesn't appear to be functioning properly.  And as I said, others have mentioned they had the same problems.  If you can't grab the right or left edge of the frame, or any corner either, then you can't properly select the area you want to work on.  And if all of the "energy" display is pressed up against the left edge of the window before you've done anything, somethings at least seems out of whack.

Since I can't afford RX2, I'll be very interested in the bugs being worked out of R-Mix.

@pdlstl: I know what you mean.  I've already said I wish CW would drop Radius and use Elastique Pro, which seems to me to give better results, in Sound Forge 10, Cubase 6x and most certainly Ableton Live.

yes,ive had good luck with R mix as well and very stable here.
ive pulled vocals out of amix,dragged guitars out of a mix,and cleaned up a dirty club mix from cassette from 1991 with amazing results.

i put on a small demonstration for one of my clients and he booked a session on the spot to remix/master some older demos i recorded for him years back.

x2 is proving to be agreat success here with me at swann.
i may be a small company but im staying busy and life is good with x2.
well worth the jump up and the doe.

Hey magbass, I had a look at the other rmix thread you started and you're right that double clikc doesn't return slider to default. But FYI ctrl-click or alt-click (not at my daw sorry) does.

@backwoods: 'Tried again; neither of those worked for me.  The plug worked fine for a while, then after moving the frame around for a few minutes, I couldn't get the grab spots again.  I did come to realize from someone else's comments that I had to make sure I was using a stereo track, which I didn't realize I wasn't before.

It could be useful, if only the frame manipulation were consistent and there were a way to return controls to default.  Maybe it's my system; I'll try the notebook later today

I played with it and it seemed to work as advertized. I also thought it was very useful for removing unwanted audio. It seemed simple to operate too.

MagBass


It could be useful, if only the frame manipulation were consistent and there were a way to return controls to default.  Maybe it's my system; I'll try the notebook later today

OK, I got a chance to use R-Mix on my notebook a little while ago and...  I had no trouble whatsoever.  It did pretty much what it was supposed to do, so the issue seems to have to do with my desktop configuration, possibly an issue with my video card, I suppose.  A shame, because I like the potential of the plugin.

@tunekicker: RX2 impressed me from the first time I saw it, but as I make no money from music, the cost was prohibitive.  Also, I was fairly sure that that program might have been a bit beyond my capacity to grasp thoroughly.

I thought now that Roland has R-Mix out, maybe iZotope would release a competing version of RX2 at around the same or lesser price point, but then I figured R-Mix might be licensed technology from iZotope anyway, so most likely not.

BTW, there's also Sony Creative's SpectraLayers Pro that looks interesting, too.

I tried it out in one song that i needed to clean up the end of a stereo wave file. I used it in place of the Waves X Noise. It worked good and and i used the R-mix with envelope/automation so it only effected the very end of the song.

CJ