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Installing, Configuring and Using the Zoom R16 R24 as a Control Surface To Use With REAPER

If you have a control surface such as a Zoom Device, you can use it to control some of REAPER's actions.

The available commands include:

- Track volume (Faders 1-16/24)
- Track mute (Channel buttons)
- Track solo (Channel buttons)
- Arming tracks  (Channel buttons)
- Start/Stop replay (Play/Stop)
- Starting/stopping recording (Rec)
- Jog wheel usage for scrubbing
- Jumping to Start (STOP+REW)
- 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
  
• 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

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

See Also

Main Page > REAPER Documentation, going quite a lot further