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menu_title: Presonus Faderport
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Since version 4.5, Ardour has had full support for the Presonus Faderport. This is a compact control surface featuring a single motorized fader, a single knob (encoder) and 24 buttons with fixed - labels. + labels. It is a relatively low-cost device that functions very well + to control a single (selected) track or bus, along with a variety of + other "global" settings and conditions.
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Ardour uses the Faderport in what Presonus calls "native" mode. You do not need to do anything to enable this - Ardour will set the device to be in the correct mode. In native mode, the Faderport @@ -42,7 +43,10 @@ menu_title: Presonus Faderport two dropdown selectors that will allow you to identify the MIDI ports where your Faderport is connected.
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Once you select the input and output port, Ardour will initialize the Faderport and it will be ready to use. You only need do this @@ -112,22 +116,92 @@ menu_title: Presonus Faderport
+ The Mix, Proj, Trns buttons have no "obvious" functionality
+ that they correspond to in Ardour. We have therefore allowed users
+ to choose from a carefully curated set of possible actions that seem
+ related to the button labels in some clear way. This can be done via
+ the Faderport configuration dialog accessed via Preferences
+ > Control Surfaces
. Each button has 3 possible actions
+ associated with it:
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+ The User button also has no obvious mapping to specific Ardour + functionality, so we allow users to choose from any + possible GUI action. The menu for selecting the action is somewhat + confusing and it can be hard to find what you're looking + for. However, all possible actions are there, so keep looking!
+ Possible actions include: +
+ Possible actions include: +
+ Possible actions include: +
+ The knob controls 1 or 2 pan settings for the current + controlled track/bus. When used alone, turning the knob controls + the "azimuth" or "direction" (between left and right) for the + panner in the track/bus (if any). This is all you need when + controlling tracks/busses with 1 input and 2 outputs. +
++ If controlling a 2 input/2 output track/bus, Ardour's panner + has two controls: azimuth (direction) and width. The width + must be reduced to less than 100% before the azimuth can be + changed. Pressing the "Shift" button while turning the knob + will alter the width setting. +
++ The knob can also be turned while the "User" button is held, + in order to modify the input gain for the currently controlled + track. +
++ You can manually change the track/bus controlled by the Faderport by + changing the selected track in Ardour's editor window. If you select + more than 1 track, the Faderport will control the first selected + track and only that track/bus. +
+ Pressing the Output button causes the Faderport to control + the fader, pan, mute and solo settings of the Master bus. If + your session does not contain a Master bus, it does nothing. + This is a toggle button - pressing it again returns Faderport + to controlling whichever track/bus was selected before the + first press of the Output button. +
++ If your session uses Ardour's monitor section, you can use + Shift-Output to assign it to the Faderport in the same way + that Output assigns the Master bus. This is also a toggle + setting, so the second Shift-Output will return the Faderport + to controlling whichever track/bus was selected before. +
++ If you press Shift-Output after a single press to Output + (i.e. control the Monitor Section while currently controlling + the Master bus) or vice versa (i.e. control the Master bus + while currently controlling the Monitor Section), the press + will be ignored. This avoids getting into a tricky situation + where it is no longer apparent what is being controlled and + what will happen if you try to change it. +