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

That's interesting because I posted a thread earlier today about there being issues that made it unusable for me, and another person responded that he was having the same troubles.  It seems like it should be a useful tool, but I can't get it to cooperate.  'Glad you're having luck with it, though.

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. 

MagBass


<snip> It seems like it should be a useful tool, but I can't get it to cooperate. <snip> 

Sorta like Audio Snap huh? Seems like a good idea but...

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.

I think R-mix is pretty cool actually. I have used it for a sort of cool quick fade out and also noise removal.

It would be cool if multiple areas/shapes could be selected.

The only bugginess I have encountered with it was when I put it over an ezdrummer track just to see where all the "clouds of energy" :)) were. It caused ezdrummer to malfunction and some patchs to cut out entirely. So I bounced to a new track and with ezdrummer as an audio file there were no issues.

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.

chuckebaby


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'm getting a little jealous of those of you who haven't had trouble with R-Mix.  It's a little odd how so many people are having such different experiences with different parts of X2.  I basically love it and don't have most of the complaints others do, but then there's this thing that I can't get to work and you and others are fine.  Weird.

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


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.

Thanks, I'll check it out.  Do you have those troubles with not being able to resize the frame flexibly?