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Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in

External devices

To Use ACT with the Cakewalk Generic Surface

Make sure you have completed the following preliminary steps:
• Successfully connected your controller/surface to SONAR (if necessary, see

“Setting up

control surfaces”

on page 1326).

• Opened the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page (if necessary, see

“To open the

Cakewalk Generic Surface property page”

on page 1333).

In the

ACT Controls

section of the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page are radio buttons

1-9

and

A-G

. These buttons control plug-in parameters in the active effect or synth plug-in. You

first need to assign a knob or control on your controller/surface to each one of these radio
buttons. Do this by clicking a radio button, moving a knob or control on your controller/surface,
and then clicking the

Learn

button in the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page. You can

check what MIDI message you’ve assigned to each button by clicking a button and then reading
the value in the MIDI Message for

Current SONAR Parameter

section. If the

None

radio button

is highlighted after you click an

ACT Controls

radio button, you have not assigned a control to

that

ACT Controls

radio button. When you finish, save your assignments as a preset.

Next, in the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page, in the

Use ACT

Strip Params

fields,

make sure that either the

ACT Enable

check box is enabled, or that the

Both

check box is

enabled. If the

Both

check box is enabled, your controller/surface is controlling both track

parameters and plug-in parameters.

In SONAR, put the focus on the plug-in effect or synth -that you want to configure: either click its
property page, or click its name in an effects bin.
The name of the plug-in appears in the

Context

field in the Cakewalk Generic Surface property

page.

Enable the

ACT Learn Mode

button

in the Control Bar’s ACT module.

In the property page of the plug-in that you want to control, click the parameters that you want to
control.

Move the sliders/knobs on your controller/surface that you want to use to control the parameters
with, in the same order that you clicked the parameters (you can reverse steps 6 and 7).

Disable the

ACT Learn Mode

button in the Control Bar’s ACT module.

A dialog box appears, asking if you want to keep your assignments. Click

Yes

As soon as you disable the

ACT Learn Mode

button, any plug-in mappings that you keep are saved

globally, and will be the same in every project for a particular plug-in. Now your controller/surface
can control whatever soft synth or effect currently has focus. If you want to control only a single
instance of a plug-in, regardless of which plug-in has focus, enable the Lock Context check box. For
more information about ACT, see

“ACT”

on page 1346.

You can save Track parameter mappings and knob/radio button mappings in the Presets window
that is at the top of the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page.

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