App preset
REAPER: controller layout for Mac
REAPER can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Hands-on transport and editing for the DAW.
Get the preset in two clicks
- Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
- Search for REAPER and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
- Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.
The preset can open REAPER.app for you when it activates.
The full button map
| Controller | Sends | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A / Cross | Space | Play / Stop (Space) |
| B / Circle | R | Record (R) |
| Y / Triangle | S | Split items at edit cursor (S) |
| X / Square | M | Toggle mute on selected track (M) |
| LB / L1 | Command (Left), Z | Undo (Cmd+Z) |
| RB / R1 | Command (Left), Shift (Left), Z | Redo (Cmd+Shift+Z) |
| Start / Options | Return | Play from edit cursor (Enter) |
| Back / Share / Select | Command (Left), S | Save project (Cmd+S) |
| L3 (left stick click) | Command (Left), 0 | Zoom to fit project to window (Cmd+0, assignable) |
| D-pad left | Left | Move edit cursor left |
| D-pad right | Right | Move edit cursor right |
| D-pad up | Up | Previous track |
| D-pad down | Down | Next track |
| Left stick left | Left | Scrub / nudge cursor left |
| Left stick right | Right | Scrub / nudge cursor right |
| Right stick up | Scroll up | Scroll arrange view up |
| Right stick down | Scroll down | Scroll arrange view down |
| Right trigger | = | Horizontal zoom in (= key) |
| Left trigger | - | Horizontal zoom out (- key) |
Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.
Tips
- A is Play/Stop and B is Record (R) so you can capture takes without reaching for the keyboard.
- Right trigger zooms the timeline in and left trigger zooms out.
- Y splits items at the edit cursor; the D-pad nudges the cursor and steps between tracks.
Make it yours
Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.
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