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navelpluisje / reasonus-install

Control REAPER with your FaderPort v2, 8 or 16 as it was intended
https://navelpluisje.github.io/reasonus-faderport/
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MacOS Installation Won't Work Faderport 8 #42

Closed BoilerSnake closed 1 year ago

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug ReaSonus installer launches fine, but doesn't present me with the option to select the midi device, only presents me with 00

I believe that this is the same bug that fuux84 encountered, so I will attach my reaper-midihw.ini file. Until then, ReaSonus is sadly not working.

Operating System

Versions Versions can be found on the About page of the installer

Expected behavior Should give me the option to select my faderport device to initiate installation, but it does not.

Additional context Reaper-midihw.ini: I have changed the file extension to TXT so I can upload it to github reaper-midihw copy.txt

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

Screenshot for context: Screenshot 2023-05-05 at 15 23 09

navelpluisje commented 1 year ago

Hmmm, was checking your file, and it looks like something has changed in the naming. I'm not at home currently. Will ba able to check it from Wednesday on. Can you try to unplug the faderport, delete thos file, restart Reaper and reconnect the faderport again? That's for now the only thing I can think of.

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

No such luck I'm afraid, didn't see any difference with the installer. I've got a brand new Faderport here myself from Thomann just last week.

Uploading the new midihw after the restart in case it helps! And hey, thanks for the help chief! Incredible work you're doing <3 reaper-midihw restarted.txt

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

I managed to install ReaSonus on my Win10-64 PC, but running CSI as the DAW control interface gave me some weird bugs. Selecting track mode did nothing, just set the faders for -60dB regardless of what the track was set to. Selecting edit plugins would set faders to match the tracks, then pressing solo would select a track where select does nothing... The screen would reveal nothing. I don't know what's going on, it's odd. As it stands Mackie Control Universal worked more accurately. Anything I could do to help troubleshoot this?

navelpluisje commented 1 year ago

In what mode is your faderport? It needs to be in Studio 1 mode. How to set this can be found in the manual at page 6

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

Yeah, I booted it up on the PC today and it was running fine so that was my own user-error (being a dumbass has it's downsides). Works great now!

As for the Mac, still have no luck in getting it installed sadly

navelpluisje commented 1 year ago

Nice it's working on Windows. For the mac, can you remove the midihw file, reboot REAPER and reconnect the controller? It should not break anything because there is only one device in the list.

In the midi devices should be something with these names:

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BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

I've done that, it reads correctly as a midi device, but it still does not let me install ReaSonus on Mac I'm afraid, giving me the same 00 message. Running MacOS Monterey 12.5 if that helps at all.

reaper-midihwDeleted.txt

navelpluisje commented 1 year ago

Mist this massage. Do you also have the port 1 in the list? This one is not showing up in the txt file. That's the port that should normally be used for the faderport

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

I set Faderport to ID: 1 in MIDI devices if that is what you mean? Didn't change no matter what ID I set *edit: I edited the midihw.txt file and set every instance of Faderport 8 to port 1, it didn't change anything, Reasonus still won't install

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

Oh heck, I see what you meant now. No, in Midi Devices neither Port 1 NOR Midi Mode turn up. On Windows, MidiIn/MidiOut showed up, but it doesn't on Mac even when I put it in Midi mode :/

BoilerSnake commented 1 year ago

I've figured out the issue! Turns out it was entirely on my end but unassumingly so.

The MIDIin/MIDIout ports are available on newer versions of the firmware so far as I can tell: https://forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.php?t=38081

As I turned on my Faderport on an older version of the firmware, I suspect that the firmware didn't have this MidiIn/Out feature. Deleting the FP8 device in Audio-Midi Setup/MIDI studio fixed it. When the device was reconnected, the MIDI ports showed up. I would personally recommend adding this set up to the guide should you feel so inclined.

Installed fine, but after installation Reaper would not boot and had to manually uninstall the plugin to get it to launch again, so I'm gonna part using Reasonus on MacOS for now. Keep using it on Windows, incredible piece of software!