Reference Guide

1226 External devices
Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in
The Cakewalk Generic Surface property page
The Cakewalk Generic Surface property page appears when you click the Open Control Surface
Plug-in button in the ACT module while Cakewalk Generic Surface appears in the drop-down
menu. The Cakewalk Generic Control controller/surface plug-in must be enabled first, however (see
“Setting up control surfaces” on page 1214, if necessary).
The property page contains the following sections:
BaseTrack
This section contains 2 buttons on either side of a number field. You can click the buttons to move
the Base Track to a higher-numbered track (right button) or lower-numbered track (left button). The
Base Track is the first track in the bank of tracks that your controller/surface is currently controlling.
You define how many tracks are in a bank by entering a number in the Number of Track Strips
field. The number can be from 1 to 32, inclusive. The property page is designed so that you can
minimize it (by dragging the border) to show only the BaseTrack buttons and Preset window, so you
can click the buttons while you’re working. The buttons are an alternative way to change the Base
Track if you haven’t assigned any buttons on your controller/surface to do that. The Move 1 and
Move Bank fields are what you use to assign those functions.
Track Parameters
This section lists the particular track strip you are assigning controls for, the number of strips that
make up a bank of tracks, and the various track parameters you can control with the faders and
knobs on your controller/surface. You can assign the following different track parameters (they are
listed in the drop-down menu next to each Parameter “n” field):
•Volume
•Pan
•Mute
•Solo
• Record Arm
• Write Enable
• Phase
• Send “n” Level (“n”=1-16; depending on number of active buses; Send 1 Level=Reverb for MIDI
tracks, Send 2 Level=Chorus for MIDI tracks)
• Send “n” Pan (“n”=1-16)
• Send “n” Enable (“n”=1-16)
• Send “n” Pre/Post (“n”=1-6)