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

[Scott Chesworth]

I suspect not, since Reaper seems to throw up an error if the same
device is enabled in both places in preferences here. Someone smarter
than me might know more though.

Paging Patrick... :P

Scott

On 2/17/16, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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