Instruction Manual

896 External Devices

Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in

MIDI messages the desired button sends out. That way, you can fill in the

correct trigger values in the On and Off fields if the displayed values are

incorrect.

Conserving Knobs and Buttons

There are a few tricks you can use if you’re running out of buttons, or if your

controller/surface only has a couple of buttons on each strip, and you want

to control more parameters on each track:

• Assign a two-way knob or button to control two different parameters—If

a knob sends out one MIDI message when it’s turned to the right and a

different MIDI message when it’s turned to the left, you could use it to

control 2 toggle-type parameters, such as solo and arm. For example, if

a knob sends out NRPN # 5000 with a data value of 1 when you turn it

to the right and a data value of 16383 when you turn it to the left, you

could use a Trigger Value of 1 to turn the Arm button on and off, and a

Trigger Value of 16383 to turn the Solo button on and off. That way,

each time you turn the knob to the right, the Arm button turns on or off.

Each time you turn the knob left, the Solo button turns on or off.

• Assign a two-way knob to control a continuous parameter—If your

fader is assigned to control Volume, you can use a two-way knob to

control Pan or some other continuous parameter such as Send 1 Level.

For example, if a knob sends out NRPN # 5000 with a data value of 1

when you turn it to the right and a data value of 16383 when you turn it

to the left, you could use a value of 1 in the Increment/Decrement Plus

+ field, and a value of 16383 in the Increment/Decrement Minus - field.

That way, each time you turn the knob to the right, the Pan parameter

(or whatever parameter you want) increases by 1. Each time you turn

the knob to the left, the parameter decreases by 1. The parameter

continues to increase if you keep turning the knob to the right, and

decreases similarly if you keep turning the knob to the left.

• Use multiple strips to control one track at a time—Assign as many

knobs and faders as you want to control lots of parameters on only one

track (leave the Configure Strip Number field set to 1 while you’re

assigning faders and knobs). Then assign a couple of buttons to Move

1 Left and Move 1 Right, so you can shift your controller/surface one

track at a time.