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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

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

Manual installation

Currently, the only way to install ReaSonus Native is by downloading the latest version and manually installing it. The plan is to make it available for ReaPack.

Download ReaSonus Native

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.

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

The Faderport transport controlls

After installation you have to change some settings to make it work.

First of all you should select the correct Control surface mode. Select ReaSonus FaderPort and 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

These should get you started with the FaderPort.Beside these there are a couple of settings to make your life easier:

  • Disable Plugin Control: If you use another controller for controlling the plugins, you can select this. The plugins mode is still active and you are still able to open the plugin window. From that point, the ReaSonus FaderPort will not do anything anymore for the plugins
  • Swap Shift buttons: This swaps the left and right Shift button.
These settings have no effect on the FaderPort V2

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