Instruction Manual

906 External Devices
ACT
See:
ACT
ACT
Active Controller Technology (ACT) allows you to control whatever plug-in
effect or soft synth currently has focus. The controller/surface mappings for
a particular plug-in work the same on each instance of that plug-in,
whenever that instance has focus. You can change the focus to a particular
plug-in by clicking either the plug-in’s interface, or its name in an FX bin.
SONAR has built-in mappings for all relatively recent SONAR plug-ins,
however some older plug-ins such as the TTS-1 do not support ACT.
Note: if you’re not using an Edirol PCR controller/surface, using ACT at this
date means using either the ACT MIDI Controller Plug-in, or the Cakewalk
Generic Surface Plug-in. The ACT MIDI Controller Plug-in has presets for
most popular controller/surfaces that include built-in links between the
knobs and controls on a given controller/surface and the cells on the
Controllers tab of the ACT MIDI Controller property page. If you’re not using
one of the factory presets (or there isn’t one for your controller/surface) OR
if you’re using the Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in, you need to establish
some links between the knobs and controls on your controller/surface, and
either the cells in the ACT MIDI Controller property page or the radio
buttons in the Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in property page. To do
either of these, see Assigning Controls on Your Controller/Surface to Cells
in the ACT MIDI Property Page, or To Use ACT with the Cakewalk Generic
Surface.
To Use ACT with the ACT MIDI Controller Plug-in
1. Make sure you have completed the following preliminary steps:
Change the color of the WAI
markers for a specific controller/
surface
In the Controllers/Surfaces dialog
(Options-Controllers/Surfaces
command), in the WAI color column
just to the right of the name of the
controller/surface, choose a new color
from the dropdown menu.
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