PreSonus FaderPort 2 (2018) midi remote script

LluisV · May 31, 2023, 4:08pm

I’ve fixed the “calibration” issue setting the “Volume max” in the project setup to 12dB.
It seems the fader of faderport is set to work from +12db to -oo

osmizza001 · May 31, 2023, 8:38pm

@LluisV
“I’ve fixed the “calibration” issue setting the “Volume max” in the project setup to 12dB.”

Thank you!

osmizza001 · June 2, 2023, 3:38pm

Updated the firmware from 3.51 to 3.74

Seems ok

theadzter · June 7, 2023, 11:12am

This script is awesome.
One thing is driving me crazy tho. I’ve got used to years of working with the stop button returning to start position on 2nd press. Is there an easy edit I can do to get that happening by any chance?

CKB · June 7, 2023, 12:52pm

But that’s exactly what the script does. If you press Stop while Cubase is playing or recording, you stop Cubase. If you then press Stop again, Cubase jumps to the left locator. The left locator must of course be at the position that corresponds to your wish for a start.

theadzter · June 8, 2023, 2:55am

I should have clarified. On my cc121 & keyboard, the 2nd press returns to ‘start position’ ie. the place you last pressed play from. (rather than the Left Locator).
It’s really handy for when you’re doing fine editing/comping/tuning and want to just double tap stop and have another listen to a quick edit you just made.
I think it’s one of the 2 default ways Cubase can be setup (in preferences).

CKB · June 8, 2023, 10:31am

Hello theadzter,

I have the solution for you.

Please close Cubase and open the Presonus_Faderport.js scriptfile and look for this code there, it’s around line 1852:

p_Page.makeCommandBinding(transportButtons.varStopRepeat, ‘Transport’, ‘To Left Locator’)

Change this code (this line) like this:

p_Page.makeCommandBinding(transportButtons.varStopRepeat, ‘Transport’, ‘Return to Start Position’)

Save the scriptfile and restart Cubase.

What do the others here think about this ?
Maybe this should be a new default in the script, if this is also the default when using the CC121 ?
I see, pressing Stop for a second time in Cubase does the same.
Also, because with the RTZ-function we still have the possibility to jump far to the left.

Best regards

CKB

It’s me again…
I really like your idea, theadzter, and I’m going to use it permanently that way, so I attached the script from WEM with the changes since his last version here and also a new funtional overview.

I hope WEM is doing well, because he hasn’t been here since two months.
WEM, please let me know if you want me to delete the upload here.

Also if anybody here like the changes, buy WEM a coffee, please. He is the Master of FaderPort.

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LluisV · June 8, 2023, 1:03pm

This new stop button behaviour is useful for me too. I will use it.
Thanks a lot.

theadzter · June 9, 2023, 8:00am

You are my hero!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
There’ll be a lot less swearing by me while using Cubase now.
It’s so hard to undo years of muscle memory.

Serchas · June 17, 2023, 3:53am

Hola hace poco compré el Faderport y no se si existe una manera de configurarlo para que funcione para automatizar los envíos, muchas gracias por la ayuda, saludos!

christos.andreou · June 25, 2023, 2:45pm

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CKB · June 28, 2023, 10:03am

Hi all,

attached is a new version of the script with two new features:

Correction:
The functionality “if stopped, return to last start” works accordingly now also in Shift Mode.
New functions:
The faderport has only one motorized fader, but it is possible to record several audio tracks at the same time and to change the desired channel during recording to record automation in different channels. Therefore I found it useful to add the functions toggle write automation of all tracks and toggle read automation of all tracks to the script. These new functions are accessed with the Shift Button.

The zip-file contains the new version of the script and also a new version of the functional overview.

Best regards

CKB
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Charlemagne · June 30, 2023, 3:26am

Hi all - I have tried to install the script on my Mac, but running into some issues.

I put the latest script in the Documents/Steinberg/Cubase/MIDI Remote/Driver Scripts/Local/Presonus/Faderport folder.
When I open Cubase, it seems to have “installed” the Faderport automatically based on the script.
Solo, mute, arm, write, read, pan knob, and fader work correctly.

However, I am also running into multiple issues:

The transport controls work but they also make my MIDI instrument sound in Cubase.
The knob in scroll mode doesn’t do anything nor do the prev/next buttons.
The click button just makes my MIDI instrument sound but doesn’t toggle the metronome.
Marker mode doesn’t do anything - the button and the knob just make my MIDI instrument sound.
Link button doesn’t do anything in either normal or shift mode.
Shift + Pan activates horizontal zoom for some reason.
Shift + Master/click/etc don’t change quantize.

I feel I might not have it installed right? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

LluisV · June 30, 2023, 7:59am

Have you the Faderport2 in Studio One mode?
No Cubase mode.

Charlemagne · July 1, 2023, 4:58am

That was it - thank you!

WEM · July 2, 2023, 10:05am

Hello @all,
thank you for bringing in new ideas and taking the functionality even further. I will include the new things in an upcoming update also on my homepage.

I suffer at the moment from heavy work load (I’m not a professional musician) and I have to organize my private move to our new flat, that also caused that at this moment not all of my equipment is available for use. The good is, that in our new flat I will have my first professional equipped and acoustical treated studio room.

Is that not worth a musical pause?

I will be back to musical work beginning from early autum.

Best regards
Werner

CKB · July 2, 2023, 11:03am

Hello WEM, nice that you are back here.

Here I have a new version right away…

I found how to unarm all audio tracks and adjusted the Shift+Arm function that way.
To arm all tracks - when you need it - is still very easy, when the preferences of Cubase are set to automatically enable record on a new selection of tracks. This is a default preference of Cubase.
The automation to control with the Shift Button is now changed to all selected tracks and not to all tracks of the project. This is more useful.

The zip-file contains the new version of the script and also a new version of the functional overview.

Best regards

CKB
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CKB · July 3, 2023, 12:19am

Hi all,

I have created again a new version of the script with two new features:

With Shift + Bypass you can toggle enable / disable of all selected tracks, for example to reduce CPU stress, when working with Cubase.
I created a new navigation mode: the Hitpoint Mode:

By Pressing Shift + Pan you can activate the Hitpoint Mode.

While the Hitpoint Mode is active, you have the following options:

By pressing the Prev Button you go to the nearest hitpoint left.
By pressing the Next Button you go to the nearest hitpoint right.
By rotating the Rotate Knob you scroll through the hitpoints.
By pressing the Rotate Knob you insert a marker at the current position (= at the current hitpoint).

There are some videos on youtube, where you can see, for what hitpoints are useful.

By the way:
On the FaderPort Shift + Pan is labeled with Flip. That’s right, because just at the hitpoints your music is “flipping out”.

The zip-file contains the new version of the script and also a new version of the functional overview.

Best regards

CKB
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CKB · July 3, 2023, 9:27am

Hi all,
I renewed the functional overview in the zip-file once more again.

By the way:
For those like me, who want to have the FaderPort better adapted to Cubase and for that would like to swap Solo and Mute at the FaderPort and relabel them accordingly, you have to make the following changes in the script:

Please change the following code in the script from

const const_Solo = 0x08     // WEM
const const_Mute = 0x10     // WEM

// optional swapping of and Mute to improve unification with Cubase // CKB
// const const_Solo = 0x10  // CKB
// const const_Mute = 0x08  // CKB

to

// const const_Solo = 0x08     // WEM
// const const_Mute = 0x10     // WEM

// optional swapping of Solo and Mute to improve unification with Cubase // CKB 
const const_Solo = 0x10  // CKB
const const_Mute = 0x08  // CKB

You can also swap Write and Read in the same manner.

Best regards

CKB

Braulio · July 3, 2023, 3:47pm

Wow, thanks for all the improvements CKB, great work!