Well, such a popular topic, eh? Turns out, I guess it was something only I could come up with 
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After deleting and reinstalling the faderport bundle into Steinberg components, I realized I had activated the faderport also in the Mackie HUI remote device page in C7 when I was first trying to get this going…“disconnected” and the Faderport is up and running like a champ!
Hopefully this helps if someone else makes a similar goof 
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