So…after messing about with trying to get KeyLab 61 mk3 to work with the Reaper DAW, I reached out to Arturia Tech Support. Their online instructions might be better if they included the following together as was given in the email response:
Thank you for using KeyLab mk3 and for your questions!
- For Reaper please make sure that the KeyLab is set as below.
–>First you’ll need to make sure that Reaper is selected on the DAW protocols in the KeyLab itself:
To set the correct one, please select any program and:
1/ Press Settings button above the Prog button,
2/ Then press Global contextual menu button (button 1),
3/ Turn the Jog Wheel until you reach “DAW PROTOCOL”
4/ Press the Jog Wheel and find Reaper then press again the Jog wheel to validate.
→ The please set Reaper as follows:
1/ Please go to Options > Preferences:
2/ Then in MIDI Devices, in Input check the boxes for Input and Control for the DAW port and Input and All for MIDI port:
In Outputs enable only the DAW port
3/ Then go to Control/OSC/Web and click on ADD :
4/Select Mackie Control Universal and DAW port in In and Out:
→ Transport, loop, metronome, faders and pans for individual tracks should work fine now.
Please let us know if anything remains unclear,
Kind regards,
Turns out, it’s not the DAW settings you should select, but the MIDI settings for both Input/Output for the Mackie Control Surface.
For my Reaper MIDI/DAW options, I have nothing selected for Outputs and my Inputs are the following:
Device | Status | Input | All | Control |
KeyLab 61 mk3 MIDI | nothing | x | x | nothing |
KeyLab 61 mk3 DAW | nothing | nothing | nothing | x |
Hope this helps the community out.
