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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 @@ -83,15 +87,30 @@ menu_title: Presonus Faderport The transport buttons all work as you would expect.
+ When pressed on its own, starts the transport moving backwards. Successive presses
speed up the "rewind" behaviour.
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- If pressed while also holding the Stop button, the playhead will
- return to the zero position on the timeline.
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+ If pressed while also holding the Stop button, the playhead will + return to the zero position on the timeline. +
++ If pressed while also holding the Shift button, the playhead will + move to the session start marker. +
+ When pressed on its own, starts the transport moving faster than normal. Successive presses + speed up the "fast forward" behaviour. +
++ If pressed while also holding the Shift button, the playhead + will move to the session end marker. +
+ The Mix, Proj, Trns buttons do not obviously correspond any
+ particular functions or operations 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: +
+ When pressed on its own, toggles punch recording. If there is no + punch range set for the session, this will do nothing. +
++ When pressed in conjunction with the Shift button, this moves + the playhead to the previous Marker +
++ See above. Any and all GUI-initiated actions can be driven with + by pressing this button on its own, or with a "long" press. +
++ When pressed in conjunction with the Shift button, this will move + the playhead to the next marker. +
++ When pressed on its own, this toggles loop playback. If the + Ardour preference "Loop-is-mode" is enabled, this does nothing + to the current transport state. If that preference is disabled, + then engaging loop playback will also start the transport. +
++ When pressed in conjunction with the Shift button, this will + create a new (unnamed) marker at the current playhead + position. +
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+ 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. +