3 title: Using the Presonus Faderport
4 menu_title: Presonus Faderport
7 <img align="left" alt="A picture of a Presonus Faderport device" src="/images/faderport-ssmall.png">
9 Since version 4.5, Ardour has had full support for the Presonus
10 Faderport. This is a compact control surface featuring a single
11 motorized fader, a single knob (encoder) and 24 buttons with fixed
15 <h2>Connecting the Faderport</h2>
17 The Faderport comes with a single USB socket on the back. Connect a
18 suitable USB cable from there to a USB port on your computer. As of
19 the end of 2015, you should avoid USB3 ports - these cause erratic
20 behaviour with the device. This issue might get fixed by Presonus in
24 The Faderport will be automatically recognized by your operating
25 system, and will appear in any of the lists of possible MIDI ports
26 in both Ardour and other similar software.
29 <h2>Using the Faderport</h2>
31 The Faderport's controls can be divided into three groups:
33 <li>Global controls such as the transport buttons</li>
35 <li>Controls which change the settings for particular track or
38 <li>Controls which alter which track or bus is modified by the
39 per-track/bus controls.</li>
43 <h3>Transport Buttons</h3>
45 The transport buttons all work as you would expect.
48 <dd>Starts the transport moving backwards. Successive presses
49 speed up the "rewind" behaviour.
51 If pressed while also holding the Stop button, the playhead will
52 return to the zero position on the timeline.
55 <dd>Starts the transport moving faster than normal. Successive presses
56 speed up the "fast forward" behaviour.
60 Stops the transport. Also used in combination with the Rewind
61 button to "return to zero".
65 Starts the transport. If pressed while the transport is
66 already rolling at normal speed, causes the playhead to jump to
67 the start of the last "roll" and continue rolling ("Poor man's
70 <dt>Record Enable</dt>
71 <dd>Toggles the global record enable setting
76 <h3>Other Global Controls</h3>