[Rwp] Control Surfaces: I'm about ready to pull my hair out!

[Chris Belle]

Hey Scott,
can a standard midi port and a control surface port share a common port 
in reaper?


On 2/16/2016 4:22 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> There's a step in setting up control surfaces when using Reaper in
> Windows that's not intuitive. I haven't read Oreo's instructions on
> the Reaper Access site, but seeing as he's on Mac, he might not have
> known that there's an extra bit of jiggery-pokery Windows users have
> to perform.
>
> In Preferences, navigate down the tree until you get to Control
> Surfaces (it's second from last at the time of writing). If you were
> adding a surface for the first time, you'd want to tab until you reach
> the Add button. Seeing as you've already started setting yours up, you
> could choose it from the first combo box and hit tab until you reach
> the edit button. In this new window, you'll need to select your
> surface protocol (which I'm betting you've already done). Then, here's
> the part that's a bit tricky. Before you hit the ok button, you'll
> need to use your screen readers virtual cursor, because there are two
> important bits of configuration that need to be taken care of that
> don't appear in the tab order. How these are presented changes
> depending on which screen reader you're using, but if you poke around
> in that window you'll find two controls which allow you to choose the
> input and output ports of the surface you're adding. Seeing as we're
> using virtual cursor, you'll need to choose your ports using whatever
> the command to simulate a left click is with your screen reader. Once
> you set both of those ports, hit ok, and you'll be back in the
> Preferences window. One more ok out of that, and you should be good to
> go.
>
> Remember that if you get an error about Reaper not being able to
> communicate with the surface or similar, the first thing to check in
> your case will be that you've gone back into Preferences and disabled
> the surface under MIDI Devices.
>
> Hth, let us know how you get on.
>
> Scott
>
> On 2/16/16, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, neither is working, even when both done together, I'm not getting
>> any error, or anything.  It just flat out won't work.
>>
>> Chris.
>>
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