Old 06-07-2018, 02:25 AM   #1
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Hi there,

Please excuse me if this is answered elsewhere, but I'm way out of my depth with control surfaces.

I was about to purchase a little Faderport coz I wanted a single physical fader to write automation on Podcasts that I'm doing. But, a friend has very kindly given me an Avid Artist Control that he no longer uses. Thanks, friend!!

My problem is that the moment I install the EuControl software for it, all sorts of odd things start happening elsewhere on my laptop - dropdown lists no longer happen in Chrome and a few other strange, seemingly unrelated issues.

So, my question is, is there a way to use the Avid Artist Control in Reaper WITHOUT having to install EuControl?
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Old 06-08-2018, 07:09 AM   #2
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Can that control surface run under MCU? If so you can use it without that software. I guess I'll look it up.:-)
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Old 06-08-2018, 07:21 AM   #3
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https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=183143

Hi,
An educated guess...yes.
For a definitive answer you might post on the control integration thread. Geoff Washington knows those boxes inside and out.
Link above..good luck!
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Hi,
An educated guess...yes.
For a definitive answer you might post on the control integration thread. Geoff Washington knows those boxes inside and out.
Link above..good luck!
Thanks LugNut! Wow - 32 pages - and from a random look through the thread the conversation is WAY above my head! Although I HAVE downloaded Geoff's CSI pre-Alpha and I'll see if that's the answer to my problems.

And as a Plan B, seemingly the Artist Control CAN run under MCU. I just now have to figure out exactly what that means and how to achieve it.
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Old 06-08-2018, 04:14 PM   #5
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Thanks LugNut! Wow - 32 pages - and from a random look through the thread the conversation is WAY above my head! Although I HAVE downloaded Geoff's CSI pre-Alpha and I'll see if that's the answer to my problems.

And as a Plan B, seemingly the Artist Control CAN run under MCU. I just now have to figure out exactly what that means and how to achieve it.
Yeah, it's a long thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ravhFzHcYKI&t=2s

The demo above shows CSI with the Artist units running Mackie protocol, but you will still need to install EuControl.

The Mackie emulation is on a per application basis and is achieved through EuControl.

As a side note I also wrote the native support for EuCon for Reaper, here is another amazingly long thread, on that topic

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=122509
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Old 06-08-2018, 06:45 PM   #6
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And EuControl seems to be where my problem lies. No idea why, but as soon as I install that (Artist Control plugged in or not), weird things start happening.

No biggie - I don't really NEED a control surface at all - it was just was given to me (long-term loan, actually), so I thought I'd try to get things up and running. I'm only ever going to want to write automation on 1 track at a time, so if I really do need a fader (which would be nice) I think I'll splash out on a Faderport.

Thanks for your advice, LugNut & Geoff!
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