RME Intelligent Audio Solutions

Fireface 800 W2k/XP driver 1.9 or up

Information about MIDI support in TotalMix

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TotalMix v1.90 can be remote controlled via MIDI. It is compatible to the widely spread Mackie Control standard, so TotalMix can be controlled with all hardware controllers supporting this method. Examples are the Mackie Control (surprise surprise), the Tascam US-2400 or the Behringer BCF 2000.

TotalMix 1.90 supports the following Mackie Control surface elements:
 
(Tested with Behringer BCF2000 Firmware v1.07 in Mackie Control emulation for Steinberg mode)

Element:                          Meaning in TotalMix:
 
Channel Faders 1 - 8              volume
V-Pots 1 - 8                      pan
pressing V-Pot knobs              pan = center
 
CHANNEL LEFT or REWIND            move one channel left
CHANNEL RIGHT or FAST FORWARD     move one channel right
BANK LEFT or ARROW LEFT           move eight channels left
BANK RIGHT or ARROW RIGHT         move eight channels right
ARROW UP or Assignable1/PAGE+     move one row up
ARROW DOWN or Assignable2/PAGE-   move one row down
 
EQ                                master mute
PLUGINS/INSERT                    master solo
STOP                              dim main monitor
PLAY                              talkback
PAN                               mono main monitor
 
MUTE Ch. 1 - 8                    mute
SOLO Ch. 1 - 8                    solo
SELECT Ch. 1 - 8                  select
REC Ch. 1 - 8                     in submix mode only: select output bus
 
F1 - F8                           load preset 1 - 8
F9                                select main monitor
F10 - F12                         monitor phones 1 - 3

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How to use:

Open the Preferences dialog (menu options or F3). Select the MIDI input and output port where your controller is connected to. Enable MIDI control in the Options menu. That's it.

Notes:

The channels under MIDI control are indicated by a colour change of the info field below the faders, black turns to yellow.

You can move the 8-fader block horizontally and vertically, in steps of one or eight channels.

You can select faders to gang them.

You can select a fader to change the current routing destination, equalling the selection of a different output channel in the lower row when in Submix View. It is not necessary to jump to the lower row to perform this selection. This way even the routing can be easily changed via MIDI.

The LC-Display found on the Mackie control is supported too, and will give useful information which faders in which row are currently active. The same brief information is available on the LED disaply of the Behringer BCF2000.

'Deactivate MIDI in background' (menu Options) disables the MIDI control as soon as another application is in the focus, or TotalMix has been minimized. This way the hardware controller will control your main DAW application only, except when TotalMix is in the foreground. Often the DAW application can be set to become inactive in background too, so that MIDI control is switched between TotalMix and the application automatically.

Even if you don't want to control the faders and the pans, some buttons are highly desired to be available in 'hardware'. These are mainly the Talkback button and the new monitoring options. You don't need a Mackie Control compatible controller to control these buttons, as they are steered by simple note on/off commands on MIDI channel 1. The notes are (hex / decimal / keys):

Monitor Main: 3C / 60 / C
Dim: 5D / 93 / A
Mono: 2A / 42 / #F
Talkback: 5E / 94 / #A

Monitor Phones 1: 3F / 63 / #D
Monitor Phones 2: 40 / 64 / E
Monitor Phones 3: 41 / 65 / F

Version 1.9 already includes advanced MIDI technologies, like Loopback detection with automatic MIDI shutdown and remapping of faders when using double or quad speed. Enjoy!

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Copyright RME 03/2005
All rights reserved. Fireface 800 and TotalMix are trademarks of RME Germany. Mackie Control is a registered trademark of LOUD Technologies Inc. US-2400 is a trademark of Teac Corp.
