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External devices
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 effects 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.
To use ACT with the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in
1. Make sure you have completed the following preliminary steps:
• Successfully connected your controller/surface to SONAR (if necessary, see
“Setting up
control surfaces” on page 1326)
• Opened the ACT MIDI Controller property page (if necessary, see “To open the ACT MIDI
Controller property page” on page 1330)
• 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, see “Assigning
controls on your controller/surface to cells in the ACT MIDI property page” on page 1332).
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).
Note: If you’re not using a Roland A-PRO controller, 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” on page 1332, or “To Use ACT
with the Cakewalk Generic Surface” on page 1335.