[AZ, Watercourse, BobF] PreSonus Faderport

[Peltz]

First of all: Thank you for your efforts, time and goodwill. People like you restores faith in humanity.

Being a Sonar user for years, it has been extremely frustration never finding controllers that really integrates well with the DAW. For some reason I didn't come by your plugin before a couple of days ago.

I'm now scratching the surface and fiddle with some of your excellent presets, that is Faderport and the phone preset.

I have one question however. I can't really get the zoom function to work out of the box. I have pressed 'Bank' and 'Loop', but the Pan rotator doesn't do anything. Is this a known bug, or something  am missing?

Btw, I'm using Sonar Platinum.

[azslow3]

I have one question however. I can't really get the zoom function to work out of the box. I have pressed 'Bank' and 'Loop', but the Pan rotator doesn't do anything. Is this a known bug, or something  am missing?

From what I can see in the preset, 'Bank' is not related. While 'Loop' is pressed, turning Pan should zoom in/out horizontally.

If that does not happened, open the GUI, switch to the "Overview" tab. Select 'Loop' in the "Current Software state". When you press 'Loop', does it show '+'?
While keeping the loop pressed, turn the encoder. Without releasing loop, check "Last control actions". You should see what preset tries to do.

[Peltz]

Ahhh. I completly misunderstood the instructions. I thought it was enough to "activate" 'Loop', turning the lights on. I didn't hold the button pressed. Thank you so much for the clairification.

And now to some coding!

Right now I want to make some buttons in TouchOsc that enables me to select different tracks and opening the pianowiew. BRB in a couple of years....

Again, thank you so much for your reply and hard work!

[Sandbass]

Hello there

I just discovered AC Controller while I was looking for a way to use a Faderport Classic with Cakewalk by Bandlab. After some disappointments (Presonus apparently no longer providing the needed .dll to use the Faderport with Cakewalk) I ended up here.

Sadly it does not work as it should. I do get the fader and the pan knob to work, but none of the buttons actually do anything. They're also not recognized in the "Last MIDI event"-window. However there is a notification in the taskbar (I guess that comes with Sonar), that shows MIDI in/output and recognizes the pressed buttons as input.

Is this a known issue?

The Faderport is running on the latest firmare, 1.45, the PC is running Win 7 home x64.

Thanks a lot!

[azslow3]

That is known issue.
In the CbB preferences, MIDI, Playback and recording, enable Key aftertouch.

[Sandbass]

That absolutely did the trick!

Thank you very much!

[azslow3]

You are welcome.

Note that there was reports there can be issues when you switch DAWs. If FP stop working after switching from/to CbB, disconnect and connect it again.
Also note that using different USB ports is looking for troubles in CbB. Try to always use the same port (for any MIDI device).

[staikov]

Hi
Is it possible to control footswitch behavior on Faderport Classic - can't find anything about it?
It works with the original Presonus driver, but there is no way to configure it.
Thank you

[azslow3]

In AZ Controller there is always some way to configure reaction on any control 
But I guess you need to make it yourself, I mean define extra new control based on MIDI the footswitch sends and assign something useful.

Follow the second list from https://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,9.0.html , but instead of 10 - 14, use:
10. In "Action configuration", press "New" button
11. Under "Action configuration" change "Undefined" to "Command"
12. In the dropbox you see "<Menu>" select "Play/pause" (or something you want)

[staikov]

In AZ Controller there is always some way to configure reaction on any control 
But I guess you need to make it yourself, I mean define extra new control based on MIDI the footswitch sends and assign something useful.

Follow the second list from https://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,9.0.html , but instead of 10 - 14, use:
10. In "Action configuration", press "New" button
11. Under "Action configuration" change "Undefined" to "Command"
12. In the dropbox you see "<Menu>" select "Play/pause" (or something you want)

What a beauty!!! Thank you, tons of fun for me! :-)

[thornlv]

I was just wondering if this preset can/could be compatible with the Presonus faderport 16

[azslow3]

No, original Faderport is a single strip controller.

You can use Cakewalk't original Mackie plug-in with Faderport 16: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/2290-presonus-faderport-16-anyone-using-it-in-cbb/

[thornlv]

Thanks for clearing that up. I was toying with the idea of getting the 16, but on reflection I will continue to use my existing behringer x touch with the msmcleod version of mcu and may consider the extender too. Has anyone done any work on a x touch preset (the big one, with jog wheel etc), I would of course be willing to assist in developing one, testing etc.

Again, many thanks.