3 title: Using the Presonus Faderport
4 menu_title: Presonus Faderport
8 Since version 4.5, Ardour has had full support for the Presonus
9 Faderport. This is a compact control surface featuring a single
10 motorized fader, a single knob (encoder) and 24 buttons with fixed
14 <h2>Connecting the Faderport</h2>
16 The Faderport comes with a single USB socket on the back. Connect a
17 suitable USB cable from there to a USB port on your computer. As of
18 the end of 2015, you should avoid USB3 ports - these cause erratic
19 behaviour with the device. This issue might get fixed by Presonus in
23 The Faderport will be automatically recognized by your operating
24 system, and will appear in any of the lists of possible MIDI ports
25 in both Ardour and other similar software.
28 <h2>Using the Faderport</h2>
30 The Faderport's controls can be divided into three groups:
32 <li>Global controls such as the transport buttons</li>
34 <li>Controls which change the settings for particular track or
37 <li>Controls which alter which track or bus is modified by the
38 per-track/bus controls.</li>
42 <h3>Transport Buttons</h3>
44 The transport buttons all work as you would expect.
47 <dd>Starts the transport moving backwards. Successive presses
48 speed up the "rewind" behaviour.
50 If pressed while also holding the Stop button, the playhead will
51 return to the zero position on the timeline.
54 <dd>Starts the transport moving faster than normal. Successive presses
55 speed up the "fast forward" behaviour.
59 Stops the transport. Also used in combination with the Rewind
60 button to "return to zero".
64 Starts the transport. If pressed while the transport is
65 already rolling at normal speed, causes the playhead to jump to
66 the start of the last "roll" and continue rolling ("Poor man's
69 <dt>Record Enable</dt>
70 <dd>Toggles the global record enable setting
75 <h3>Other Global Controls</h3>