Zoom R16 R24
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Installing, Configuring and Using the Zoom R16 / R24 as a Control Surface with REAPER
If you have a control surface such as the Zoom R16 / R24, you can use it to control some of REAPER's actions.
The available features include:
- Track volume (Faders 1-16/24)
- Track mute (Channel buttons)
- Track solo (Channel buttons)
- Arming tracks (Channel buttons)
- Start/Stop replay (Play/Stop)
- Start/Stop recording (Rec)
- Jog wheel usage for scrubbing
- Jumping to Start (STOP+REW)
- Bank switching (Bank buttons, no LED's)
- Cycle through markers forward/backward (FF/REW)
- Scroll timeline forward/backward (Left/Right)
- Scroll channel list forward/backward (Up/Down)
- Free usage of F1-F5 keys (see below)
Installation
- Install your Zoom device drivers as normal
- Connect device and wait for recognition
- Start Reaper
- Goto Options/Preferences/Control Surfaces
- Choose Mackie Control / Edit
- Set MIDI input/output to Zoom R16/24 Audio Interface
- Leave any other settings as they are
- For playback via R16 turn the Master Poti to "DAW"
DON`T: Choose Zoom R16/24 as MIDI Device under Audio!
You will get annoying errors!
Defining the F1-F5 keys
- Goto Options/Preferences/Keyboard
- Choose "Assign Keyboard shortcuts"
- Search command to be assigned to F-Key
- Click on the chosen command
- Click "Add..." under "Shortcuts for selected action"
- Press desired F-Key
- Click ok
- Repeat for other F-Keys
Using the Channel Buttons for Play/Mute/Rec
- The Master button works as a toggle switch
- All channel buttons change when pressing the Master button
- Active function is displayed
- The Channel LEDs do not work
Changing banks
- The bank buttons select the asigned bank to the faders
- 1-8Tr selects Track 1-8 and assigns tracks to faders
- 9-16Tr selects Track 9-16 and assigns tracks to faders
Workflow for external recordings with R16/24
Many people want to use their Zoom R16/24 for recording of demos and rehearsals and
do the final mixing on the pc using a DAW.
So here is the workflow:
- Record your tracks as usual with R16/24 (name the tracks, will save hassle later)
- Use R16 as card reader (switch R16 to card reader mode, or use any other cardreader) to copy your files from card to pc
- Switch R16 to audio interface mode (DO NOT START REAPER YET - Wait til device is recognized)
- Fire up reaper
- Create project in reaper
- Import audio files to reaper
- Mix your project using R16 as a control (record automation data)
- Export your mix to wav/mp3/whatever
- If you want to playback the mix with R16 export as .wav to card
Known problems
- The channel status LEDs do not work (they work with Mackie Tracktion)
- The R16/24 has to be in DAW mode before starting Reaper
- The bank LEDs do not work
Ressources
Zoom R16 Manual - Recorder/Controller
Zoom R16 Manual - Audio-Interface
Zoom R16 Downloads
Zoom R24 Manual - Recorder/Controller
Zoom R24 Manual - Audio-Interface
Zoom R24 Downloads
