Instruction Manual

894 External Devices
Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in
6. Move the control on your controller/surface that you want to use to
control this parameter.
7. Click the Learn button in the dialog. The MIDI message that the control
you moved sent out appears in the MIDI Message for the Current
SONAR Parameter section.
8. You can edit how SONAR interprets this particular message if you
want. See MIDI Message Interpretation for more information.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 if you want to configure more parameters for this
track strip, or choose a new track strip in the Configure Strip Number
field, and then repeat steps 4-8
When you’ve finished your edits, either type a name for this group of
settings in the Presets window and click the Save button
(recommended), or just click the Save button to overwrite the current
preset. You can then reload this collection of track settings any time you
want to by choosing the name of the preset that you saved in the Presets
window.
To Use ACT with the Cakewalk Generic Surface
1. Make sure you have completed the following preliminary steps:
• Successfully connected your controller/surface to SONAR (if
necessary, see Connecting and Disconnecting)
• Opened the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page (if
necessary, see To Open the Cakewalk Generic Surface Property
Page)
2. 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.
3. Next, in the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page, in the Use ACT
or Strip Params fields, make sure that either the ACT Enable check box