1 Knob Control...One Can Only Wish!!

Hi there fellow Cake...ites!! By chance does anyone know how to set up a control surface so that a "knob" of choice can be used to control whatever the mouse cursor is hovered over? I think Novation makes a controller unit that does this but I have to believe via ACT this could be done...no? Right now controller wise I have a Mackie Universal Pro surface, a Frontier Design Transport, a M-Audio Trigger Finger and numerous keyboard workstations. Ideally I would like to use the Mackie Universal Pro's jog/shuttle wheel for this but as it stands today it only works in "Jog Parameter" mode on certain items. Thanks in advance for your help. Dave R. DeSiRe Music Productions

It's true the Mackie can't be used for ACT as its 6-year-old driver doesn't support it. When the Mackie driver is selected in Preferences, the option for ACT is greyed out. I believe this is a case for the necessity of a driver upgrade as the Mackie (and AFAIK as I know, any control surface) is completely controlled by the DAW and is functionless without.  It has touch-sensitive faders and knobs so ACT support is entirely feasible for it.

Unfortunately I don't. I'm not sure it's possible from hardware at the moment. If I understand your idea, the knob will control whatever the "in focus" element on screen is?

I like the idea but how feasible that would be I have no idea. ACT will assign a whole bunch of controls to the in focus plug-in but AFAIK you can't set it to do what you want, or not so it changes within the plug in at any rate.