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External Devices
OPT Panels
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.
5. Move the sliders/knobs on your controller/surface that you want to use to control the parameters
with, in the same order that you clicked the parameters (you can reverse steps 4 and 5).
6. Disable the Learn button on the Controllers/Surfaces toolbar.
7. A dialog asks if you want to keep your assignments. Click Yes or No.
Any assignments you keep are saved automatically as soon as you disable the Learn button. These
assignments are global, so they are the same for every project.
OPT Panels
OPT stands for Open Plug-in Technology. If you have a Yamaha sound module that uses OPT
panels, you can open the panels directly from SONAR, edit your sounds, and save them as presets.
To Open an OPT Panel
1. Make sure your Yamaha module is connected to your computer and turned on.
2. Use the Views > OPT Panel command to display the submenu of installed OPT panels, and click
the name of the OPT panel you want to display.
The OPT panel appears.
3. If you want to edit a preset you’ve previously created, choose the preset from the Presets window;
otherwise type a name for your new preset in the Presets window.
4. Edit your sound (each OPT panel has its own help file).
5. Click the floppy disk icon that’s next to the Presets box to save your edited sound.
Working with StudioWare
StudioWare panels are software interfaces to external MIDI devices such as samplers, keyboards,
automatable mixers, and effects units. These interfaces allow you to manipulate the controls on any
external MIDI device from graphical controls on your screen. The changes you make to these
controls can even be recorded and then played back as part of your project.
SONAR includes a wide variety of StudioWare panels for popular MIDI devices, with new panels
constantly under development here at Cakewalk, by equipment manufacturers, and by SONAR