Instruction Manual

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ACT
External Devices
• Successfully connected your controller/surface to SONAR (if
necessary, see Connecting and Disconnecting)
• Opened the ACT MIDI Controller property page (if necessary, see
To Open the ACT MIDI Controller Property Page)
• Selected a preset from the ACT MIDI Controller property page
Presets menu, either a factory preset for your controller/surface, or
a self-created preset (if there is no preset, seeAssigning Controls
on Your Controller/Surface to Cells in the ACT MIDI Property
Page).
2. Enable ACT in the ACT MIDI Controller property page by enabling the
Active Controller Technology Enable check box. The ACT MIDI
Controller can enable this check box from the controller/surface itself.
3. Put the focus on the plug-in that you want to control.
The name of the plug-in appears in the Active Controller Technology
field of your controller/surface’s property page, and the current
mappings appear above the knob and slider fields in the controller/
surface property page.
4. Adjust the plug-in’s parameters by moving the controls on your
controller/surface (if you’re using a self-created preset for the first time,
you may have to create your own ACT Mappings before you can do this
step—see the following procedure).
5. If you want to control only this instance of the plug-in with your
controller/surface, enable the Lock check box in the ACT MIDI
Controller property page, or enable the ACT Lock button in the
Controllers/Surfaces toolbar.
6. If you are not locking the controller/surface to a single instance of a
plug-in, put the focus on another plug-in, if desired, and adjust its
parameters.
To Edit the Default ACT Mappings
1. Enable ACT in the ACT MIDI Controller property page by enabling the
Active Controller Technology Enable check box.
2. Enable the Learn button on the Controllers/Surfaces toolbar.
3. Open the property page of the plug-in that you want to control.
4. Click the parameters in the property page that you want to control.