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Welcome to ReaSonus Native documentation

The documentation should guide you through the functionalities of ReaSonus Native. The first part is about installation and settings

The second part will explain all the controlls of the FaderPort: what they do, when they do it, and so on.

The last part explains the goodies in ReaSonus Native like filter management, managing the functions and plugin mapping

If one of the screenshots is not as clear as you would like, open it in real life. Nothing as good as the real deal

Will be appreciated

ReaSonus Native is a free and open source project, but takes some time and effort to create and maintain. It is not required of course but a donation for maintaining would be highly appreciated. This will, for example, be used for maintaining the Windows version, because I do not own a Windows machine.

Donations can be made via the link in the footer.

The big Thanx

This project would not have been possible without you, reading this. But also a big thanx goes to the following people:

  • Geoff Waddington, The man behind the impressive CSI. Without the CSI project, this would probably never been created.
  • Cfillion, for helping me out with some annoyances I ran into with C++ and CMake.
  • All volunteers helping with testing, reviewing the documentation and being patient.

Installation

Before you start

ReaSonus Native has the following dependencies:

  • SWS: If you have not installed it yet, you can download it from the SWS website
  • ReaImGui: This is an extension needed for all the Dialogs

Both of these extensions can, as ReaSonus Native be installes with ReaPack

Also your FaderPort should be in Studio One mode. You can check the manual for more info about that

ReaPack

By far the easiest and recommanded way to install ReaSonus Native is via ReaPack. Reasonus Native is in the ReaTeam Extensions, so can be installed instant

In REAPER open ReaPack, search for 'ReaSonus'. Select 'ReaSonus Native' and install it.

Manual installation

For manual install ReaSonus Native you have to download the latest version and move it to the correct folder. This way of installing ReaSonus Native can be needed for testing pre releases etc

  • Download ReaSonus Native for your platform from Github
  • On this page there is also a file names en-US.ini, this is needed as it keeps all teh translations for the ReaSonus Native Control Panel
  • In Reaper, go to Options->Show REAPER resource in Explorer/Finder. This will open the folder with all the REAPER files.
  • In this folder, open the UserPlugins folder and copy the downloaded ReaSonus extension to the folder.
    • In here also create a newn folder named ReaSonus and copy/move the en-US.ini file into this folder

Nice Extras

REAPER does not reinitialize midi devices when they get activated with REAPER already running. You can in that case open the preferences, open the settings page of ReaSonus Native under Control/OSC/Web and close it again.

To make this a bit easier you could add another extension named reaper_automidireset. This performs the reset automatically in the background. More info here on the Forum

Settings

After installation you have to change some settings to make it work. The screenshot is for the FaderPort 8/16. The only difference with the FaderPort v2 version is the Surface Select.

Select the device you want to install it for below.

First of all you should select the correct Control surface mode. Select ReaSonus FaderPort 8 & 16 the settings as displayed in the image should appear:

  • Surface: Select your controller here.
  • MIDI In: Select the proper MIDI Input
  • MIDI Out: Select the proper MIDI Input

On the right side you have 2 buttons:

  • ReaSonus Settings: Opens the ReaSonus Control Panel and activates the Settings tab
  • Documentations: Opens this website in your default browser

On-Device Menu

By pressing [Left Shift] + Touch-button on the FaderPort, you will be able to make all those settings on the device as well.

First of all you should select the correct Control surface mode. Select ReaSonus FaderPort V2 the settings as displayed in the image should appear:

  • MIDI In: Select the proper MIDI Input
  • MIDI Out: Select the proper MIDI Input

On the right side you have 2 buttons:

  • ReaSonus Settings: Opens the ReaSonus Control Panel and activates the Settings tab
  • Documentations: Opens this website in your default browser