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+layout: default
+title: Using the Presonus Faderport
+menu_title: Presonus Faderport
+---
+
+<p>
+ 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.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Connecting the Faderport</h2>
+<p>
+ The Faderport comes with a single USB socket on the back. Connect a
+ suitable USB cable from there to a USB port on your computer. As of
+ the end of 2015, you should avoid USB3 ports - these cause erratic
+ behaviour with the device. This issue might get fixed by Presonus in
+ the future.
+</p>
+<p>
+ The Faderport will be automatically recognized by your operating
+ system, and will appear in any of the lists of possible MIDI ports
+ in both Ardour and other similar software.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Using the Faderport</h2>
+<p>
+ The Faderport's controls can be divided into three groups:
+ <ol>
+ <li>Global controls such as the transport buttons</li>
+
+ <li>Controls which change the settings for particular track or
+ bus</li>
+
+ <li>Controls which alter which track or bus is modified by the
+ per-track/bus controls.</li>
+ </ol>
+</p>
+
+<h3>Transport Buttons</h3>
+<p>
+ The transport buttons all work as you would expect.
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Rewind</dt>
+ <dd>Starts the transport moving backwards. Successive presses
+ speed up the "rewind" behaviour.
+ <br>
+ If pressed while also holding the Stop button, the playhead will
+ return to the zero position on the timeline.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Fast Forward</dt>
+ <dd>Starts the transport moving faster than normal. Successive presses
+ speed up the "fast forward" behaviour.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Stop</dt>
+ <dd>
+ Stops the transport. Also used in combination with the Rewind
+ button to "return to zero".
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Play</dt>
+ <dd>
+ Starts the transport. If pressed while the transport is
+ already rolling at normal speed, causes the playhead to jump to
+ the start of the last "roll" and continue rolling ("Poor man's
+ looping").
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Record Enable</dt>
+ <dd>Toggles the global record enable setting
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+</p>
+
+<h3>Other Global Controls</h3>
+<p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Mix</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+ </dl>
+</p>
+
+