Using your gear
Control surfaces

Control surfaces

Ardour supports a variety of controls surfaces that provide convenient hardware interface for accessing program’s features. Here are some of them:

  • PreSonus FaderPort 2/8/16
  • Solid State Logic 360 UF8
  • Steinberg CC121
  • Novation Control LX
  • Contour Design Shuttle

Control surfaces that have dedicated configuration pages, such as the ones listed above, get enabled in Ardour automatically as soon as you attach them to a computer running Ardour. After that, go to Edit > Preferences > Control Surfaces, select the device of interest, and click Show Protocol Settings below.

Control Surfaces page in Preferences

For documentation specific to those surfaces, please read the relevant chapters of the user manual.

Control surfaces that have dedicated integration do not need enabling manually. Just plug them in and start using immediately.

Audio interfaces