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RME Digicheck before Sonarworks calibration profile

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Hello.

Has anyone manage to setup RME Digicheck in Totalmix FX so it receives signal before the calibration profile of Sonarworks happens?

I'm using RME Fireface UCX and using Digicheck for analysis, so I need to visualisation plugin insert BEFORE room correction, so it can show the original signal, and not the processed one.

Thank you,
Cezar

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    Jan Biasi

    Hey Cezar

    I'm facing the exact same issue, but I don't think that this is solely Sonarworks fault.
    I also contacted RME on what their approach would be to solve this issue as I'm sure we're not the only one.

    What DAW are you using? I'm using Ableton.

    Thanks
    Jan

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    Zane

    Hi,

    Thanks for reaching out!

    Perhaps you can consider creating a separate send in your DAW with an uncalibrated signal and route it to a different channel pair for analysis in this case.

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    Jan Biasi

    Hey Zane

    Thanks for this recommendation, I already tried that beforehand. The issue is the following (at least with Ableton):

    1. I can only choose one sound device for output - SoundID Reference OR my UFX+
    2. If I choose to send it to the UFX+ I am not able to re-route it to SoundID (or at least I wouldn't know how to do it, as I can't "attach" SoundID reference to anything, only vice versa)
    3. If I choose to send it to SoundID reference I cannot choose another Input of my UFX+ to receive the channel

    With you're suggestion (#2) I'd be happy to know how I can re-route something from the interface to the Software - it seems not that any of my available interfaces here could do this (UFX+, Scarlett, Apollo).

    Thanks in advance for your help!
    Jan

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    marcus.thuresson95
    Hey there. I was struggling with this also, until I came up with the following: Ableton setup: 1. Create a new audio channel for monitoring. This track is what we will be using to apply SoundID and get sound to your speakers. 2. On the new channel, choose "Audio from: Master (Post FX)". 3. Set "Monitor" to "In". 4. Set "Audio To" to "Ext. Out", and choose your main monitor outputs (usually 1/2) 5. On the master channel, set the "Master Out" to an output you are not using. In my case I set it to 3/4. 6. Put SoundID on the monitoring channel. 7. On the monitoring channel, put the "Ext. Audio Effect" Ableton effect (after SoundID), and set "Audio to: 1/2 (or whatever output is your main outputs)". This effect makes it so that if you are soloing a channel with this setup, you will still get audio. Without this step, you won't get sound from solo:d channels via the monitoring channel. 8. That's it for the Ableton config. Basically this routes the master both to a separate, unused output on your interface (which we will setup in DigiCheck and TotalMix), but also routes the audio from the master into the separate monitoring channel, which will ultimately take the sound through SoundID and out to your speakers. TotalMix & DigiCheck setup: 1. In TotalMix, make sure to mute the output you sent the master channel to (3/4 in my case), so as to not get double sound. 2. In DigiCheck, set the Input Selection to "Playback Analog 3" (Left) and "Playback Analog 4" (Right). That's it. This also makes it so that you never have to turn off SoundID when bouncing your project, since the rendering takes place before the monitoring channel with SoundID on it. You can confirm this is all working by going into SoundID on the monitoring track and just mute it, and if everything is setup correctly you should still have signal into DigiCheck, but no audio from your speakers. Although I should add that I'm no expert when it comes to this kind of routing, so I don't know whether this kind of setup could cause issues. This is just what I came up with via research and experimentation :) Hope this helps someone!
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