X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fusing-the-presonus-faderport8.html;h=77c25790c17459a0558a5cae38198926cc61f9c8;hb=01fe97daecc73c28d0a46bda44df5dd20c95b7e7;hp=286f899458b057eabda339c82a90785ed11533d1;hpb=60f055ca75f7a030781beb5620d14565590f7e4f;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/using-the-presonus-faderport8.html b/include/using-the-presonus-faderport8.html index 286f899..77c2579 100644 --- a/include/using-the-presonus-faderport8.html +++ b/include/using-the-presonus-faderport8.html @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
Since version 5.8-290, Ardour supports for the - Presonus FaderPort™ 8. + Presonus + FaderPort™ 8.
- The FaderPort™ 8 is a production control surface with 8 touch-sensitive, motorized faders, - monochromatic digital scribble strips and more than 60 buttons with fixed labels. + The FaderPort™ 8 is a production control surface with 8 touch-sensitive, + motorized faders, monochromatic digital scribble strips and more than 60 buttons + with fixed labels.
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The FaderPort's controls can be divided into five groups:
-Session Navigation allows quick navigation and provides access to session-wide controls. Each of the eight buttons alters the function of the push-button encoder and the Prev, Next buttons. With exception of Click the seven modes are exclusive (radio buttons).
+ -The two Shift buttons are identical, they're copied to provide @@ -187,20 +201,23 @@ The Shift button engages directly on press. Activating an action while the button is held will void the shift-lock mode.
- -The eight faders on the FP8 can be assigned to various automatable controls present in the current session. The four fader-mode buttons change the behavior of the mixer-strip and scribble strip displays. (Note: with the 1.01 firmware these buttons always act on press.)
+ -Shift + Track toggles timecode display on/off (middle row of the scribble-strip). The timecode format can be configured in the Control Surface Preference Dialog (Timecode, musical-time: bar/beat/tick).
- -Shift + ARM record-arms all tracks in the session.
- -These buttons allows to select which mixer-strips are spilled on the FP8 channel-strips.
+ -The Automation Controls provide access to the currently selected mixer-strips. The automation enable lights indicates the mode of the most recently selected @@ -363,11 +388,15 @@ Track and Pan fader modes where they affect the fader and pan automation modes respectively.
+ -The Automation Controls also double as session state controls when combined with Shift.
-The above also applies to Ardour-derivatives Harrison-Mixbus and Mixbus 32C with a few subtle differences:
@@ -479,6 +510,6 @@ The above also applies to Ardour-derivatives Harrison-Mixbus and Mixbus 32C with When editing those processors, the parameters follows track selection (for other plugins this is not possible since they may not be present).