ACT Learn problems

Hello at all,
i realy don't how to get on.
I got two versions of sonar. One LE 8.5 and one X2 studio.
In the LE version, ACT learn works perfect. I move for example 8 rotary knobs in psynthII. After i rotate r1-r8 on my A300pro. Sonar tells me that i had touched 8 parameters and 8 control elements and ask me that i want to use the assignation. I accept the assignation and everything works fine. The value of the new parameters can be set with the apro.
 
Same think with X2 studio doesn't works.
First thing i found strange is when i move for example 8 parameters and 8 rotarys on my controller, X2 tells me that i had move 16 parameters and 8 control elements. Why 16?
More often i assign parameters, more confuse things happen. At last assignment doesn't works perfect and i must restart to assign parameters.
 
 
What's going wrong? Anybody got a answer? Do i must make some specisl settings in X2 studio?
 
 
 
Best, Tomas

Granted I haven't had great success with ACT, but this is curious.  What operating system are you using, Vista, 7 or 8, x86 or 64bit; and are you using X2 32bit or 64bit?  I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Hi, why did you add "Act Midi Controller" in the Control Surfaces page? If you're using just A-300Pro as your control surface, you only need to add "A-PRO 1."
Other than that, your settings are absolutely OK.
 
 

ta7
First thing i found strange is when i move for example 8 parameters and 8 rotarys on my controller, X2 tells me that i had move 16 parameters and 8 control elements. Why 16?

I found something like that happening recently, I was trying to automate some controls in a 32-bit plugin (so using bit bridge) that didn't have the usual right-click midi learn functionality (aside: is that due to bit bridge or the plugin?)
 
Anyway, when I was doing the ACT learn for 3x parameters, I noticed that when I moved the controllers on my keyboard that I was trying to assign, some switches on the plugin were moving i.e. they were already assigned.  So I ended up with 'moved 6 parameters and 3 controls'.  However, once I accepted this, I ended up with 3 controls and 3 parameters as I'd wanted.
 
Have you tried accepting and seeing what happens?  Are you still controlling 16 parameters with 8 controllers, or are you getting the one-to-one association that you want?
 
Have you noticed controls on the plugin moving when you're doing the ACT learn?  i.e. ones that you're not trying to assign/learn, but which might already be associated?
 
[edit] p.s. what is psynthII by the way?  The only psynth I know of is an iPhone app (?)

Hi there,
i spend a lot time to test ACT Learn and i come to the result that VST plugins are working right with ACT Learn.
DX plugins are unusal with ACT Learn.
 
Best, Tomas

Don't think so, it's a completely different interface technology.  One use's Steinberg's VST and the other Microsoft's DirectX.

Can't find the ACT Learn button on my TTS-1...
 

ston

Jlien X
Can't find the ACT Learn button on my TTS-1...

There wasn't one on the bit-bridged 32-bit effect I mention above, but the global ACT learn button (in the toolbar) still worked OK.  Have you tried that to see if it works?

Don't confuse the 32bit VST issue with DXi. To access the ACT learn button on a BitBridged VST, hold the SHIFT key when opening the plug-in UI. The VST header with the ACT learn button will open in a second window usually behind the plug-in UI.

Ah, TTS-1 doesn't support ACT.
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X2&Lang=EN&Req=ExternalDevices.15.html
 
"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."

scook
To access the ACT learn button on a BitBridged VST, hold the SHIFT key when opening the plug-in UI. The VST header with the ACT learn button will open in a second window usually behind the plug-in UI.

Another addition to the list of things I didn't know :-)
 
Does that show the other 'missing' buttons too, like solo, mute, read/write enable etc?
 
Cheers!

tyvm! :-)