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To the RME Babyface Pro FS users—again...


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While learning to use Totalmix with my sparkling new Babyface Pro FS makes sense, on the other hand since I'm used to work with Logic, I started working with it in DAW Mode. It makes more sense to me, to start with anyway—and leaving aside the fact that Totalmix is a handful to figure out, to say nothing of how exactly it interacts with Logic.

 

I worked today on the mix of the first recording I made with it, of a trio I'm part of. I basically worked with my monitors, but then I wanted to hear it through my headphones. And there's the catch... I just couldn't figure out how to hear the mix on the headphones, to say nothing about switching between listening to it on the monitors or the headphones at will. I take it that one can do that in DAW Mode—there are no reasons it shouldn't be possible.

 

The mix plays on the monitors fine, but I can't find how to have the phones work, though I played with all the Assign options of the Control Room section of the RME. As far as Logic goes, for all I know, there shouldn't be anything special to do.

 

That said, I still managed to do that first mix of my trio's last rehearsal, and I'm happy with it. I can definitely hear a lot more definition or clarity with the RME than what came out of my old Presonus Firestudio—though I have to say, about the phone issue, that I liked the simplicity of it, with its 2 volume knobs, one for the monitors and one for the phones that simply worked out of the box.

 

It's OK. I'll figure it out. Eventually. Yet I sure could use some help.

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I completely agree with everything being much more easy to be controller 100% in Logic's Mixer and keeping the audio interface "transparent" rather than using its software mixer on top of Logic's mixer which complicates everything.

 

Now the headphones part ... there should be a Control Room window where you can assign the headphones... can you share a screenshot of your TotalMix software during playback of a project in Logic so that we can see the meters active?

 

I'll attach a tutorial by RME in case it helps.

 

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Thanks for dropping in, David.

 

I watched that video. I'm still fooling around, and I guess I'll come across the solution through sheer luck and will power.

 

Let me get a screen shot of what Totalmix looks like when I'm running the mix...

 

Well, there we go. By luck I just now managed to get the mix to play in the headphones. I still can't figure out the logic of it—pun intended. The phones started to work when I assigned the option "phone 1" in the bottom-right Assign options to "AN 1/2" or analog inputs 1 and 2, which then made the bottom-left "PH 3/4" channel strip appear where I can control the phones volume, while I can control the monitors volume with the slider on the Main channel strip at the bottom-right.

 

Now, the latter makes sense, yet as to why the "phone 1" has to be assigned to "AN 1/2" to make the "PH 3/4" appear on the left, which controls the headphones, that's beyond me—and note that if you assign that "phone 1" to "PH 3/4" in the Assign, the PH 3/4 strip on the left side actually disappears.

 

Stranger than strange. Until it isn't. I guess. Maybe.

 

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PS: Hmm. First time I post a screenshot here, I followed your old guidelines, compressed the shot, yet it appears as a .zip file. What am I missing...

Compressing is only for Logic files. Image files should not be compressed. I'll fix it for you. :)

 

Ok good to hear you managed to somehow make it work. I definitely agree that the software isn't the most intuitive out there, then again that often is the case with most routing/mixer software accompanying audio interfaces unfortunately.

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Only for Logic files. I see, you meant compressing audio files in that old post. Makes sense.

 

Right, those interfaces' software. I recall feeling lucky with the old Presonus I used for many years as it happened to work straight away, so that I never had to deal with its Universal Control software. As for the RME Totalmix, I'm getting there to having it set where it needs to be. Then I only have to use it to set gain levels—though I think I read that those can be set on the interface itself—and use it to switch phantom power when needed. Then it can be closed and I can forget about it. It's a little unusual compared to what I've been used to, yet that said, I'm happy with its performance.

 

Looks like I'll have a next question soon, about having my sustain pedal—an M-Audio SP 2—work with Kontakt. It works fine elsewhere—which I'm grateful for since I don't know much about MIDI yet—yet no matter what I try, I can't get it to work there.

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