ACT/Remote Control for Main out switching
I have had a post out on the old Pro Audio forum for the last 7 years with nearly no action:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/ACT-question-re-bus-output-settings-m1106306.aspx#3056300 Here's what I'm trying to do in a nutshell and I don't think is yet fixed in the X3 platform:
I have an Echo Layla 3G. The output #1 pair is mirrored to the headphone out, so I have nothing plugged into that speaker out, so it's exclusively for headphones. I have my main monitors plugged into Out 2 on the Layla. To switch from monitors to headphones, I show the Master bus and change its output routing to Out 1 or Out 2 (which I've renamed for simplicity to "Headphones" and "Monitors" in Sonar).
This is a great setup and works ok, but it's a bit of a pain to get to when you do it over and over - so I wanted to make an easier way - and I can imagine that this would be useful to others as a basic monitor switching function.
I tried to assign two busses to the main out instead, each one pointing to the correct physical output, then using the midi remote function, I put a toggle using a button on my PCR800 keyboard. So, when I press the A8 button, it engages one and turns off the other and vice-versa. This APPEARS to work: the lights change on the busses to enable/disable as expected - but nothing happens to the actual routing, so the sound stays wherever it was (i.e. monitors).
If I CLICK the same bus boxes to enable and disable them accordingly with my mouse, it does exactly what it's supposed to. This seems like a bug, and after fiddling with it over and over, I've found it's not like it's just a bug at the master bus or anything - this particular midi remote function doesn't appear to work anywhere.
Can someone try a similar thing and see if they can get it to work or think of another way that I can accomplish the same goal of pressing a single hardware button (ACT or not) to switch the Master from Out1 to Out2?
Thanks for any input.