Instruction Manual

900 External Devices
Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in
ACT Controls
This section let's you assign buttons and knobs to control plug-ins. This
section has the following controls:
• Lock Context radio button—lets you assign a control on your controller/
surface to enable or disable the Lock Context check box.
• Lock Context check box—when this check box is enabled, your
controller/surface controls only the particular instance of the particular
plug-in that had focus when you enabled this check box.
• Context field—displays the name of the plug-in that currently has focus,
unless the Lock Context check box is enabled.
• Physical Control Type—this field lets you tell SONAR what kind of
control you are using for the selected parameter. For example, if the
parameter you’re controlling is an On/Off type of parameter, like a
power button, it would be a good idea to use a button or switch on your
controller instead of a slider.
• Radio buttons 1-9 and A-G—each of these 16 radio buttons lets you
map up to 16 plug-in parameters to controls on your controller/surface.
The name of each of the 16 plug-in parameters that are currently being
controlled are listed in order next to each radio button. To use these
buttons, you must first assign a control on your controller/surface to
each one of these buttons. See .
MIDI Message for the Current SONAR Parameter
This section is where you can choose a specific kind of MIDI message to
control whatever parameter is selected in the Track Parameters, ACT
Controls (including the ACT Enable check box), or Global Parameters
sections. Most of the time you don’t need to choose, because the Learn
button fills in the fields automatically.
Choose from the following options:
• None—Click this button to disable control of the selected parameter.
• Learn—If you don't know the exact MIDI message that a fader/knob/
button transmits, you can simply move the fader/knob/button a couple
of times, and then click Learn to automatically fill in the correct MIDI
message.
• Controller—With this button enabled and a Controller number entered
in the number field, SONAR moves the selected parameter whenever it
receives this specific controller message from your controller/surface
on the specified channel.
• Channel—The MIDI channel the controller/surface uses for the MIDI