Jesse G
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P5 Control Surface Feature
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you cakewalk!!!!! I recently purchased a Mackie control Universal for Sonar, (Great) to replace my BCF2000. When opened P5 2.5 to connect the Mackie as my new control surface, it accepted as quick as Sonar did. When I automate my tracks, the faders and panpots follow with the automation. this is excellent. I can control my main out from my master fader. I have control over allo of my Aux sends at once. Tons of features usning the mackie. The Mackie Control Universal and the P5 2.5 are awesome together. For those of you who want to control P5. Get a Mackie Control Universal. They are at their lowest prices ever at zzsound dot com I purchased mine for $599.95 Other stores are still selling them for 999.99 They are being discontinued to make way for the Mackie Universal Pro. which adds more midi ports and a USB port as well, and it's a different color (White). Fo serious control. Get a MCU Peacce 
post edited by Jesse G - 2007/05/15 15:39:33
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Jesse G
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 10:35:06
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Ok Cakewalk, once thing I did notice is that when I change a setting on the plug in side, let's seay Sonitus delay, the change takes place on the Mackie, but when I change it on the mackie, the change doesn't take placae on the plugin until after I either click the link delay button, or change another control on the plugin itself. What's the deal? In Sonar, the change is two way. If I change it on the MCU, then Sonar reflects the change instantly and vice-versa. Is there a problem? Peace
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DayDrumFour
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 14:53:07
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Envy!!! I don't feel it too often. But there it is.
It would be nice if Cakewalk adds more midi controllers to that list of devices.
I have authentic analog drum machine samples.
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Jesse G
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:11:09
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Ognis
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:17:24
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Me too. I dont have 600 dollars. Spent all my money on BFD and AD.
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syrath
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:30:47
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Well it might not be in the same league but I went out yesterday and got myself an Edirol PCR300. Its a purty damn nice keyboard for the cash. Id recommend it to anyone, it certainly makes a huge markup on my old Xboard 25. All those buttons, faders ,and knobs have freed up a lot of the limits I had with the Xboard 25. And with one button press and knob twiddle I can change the buttons to drum pad controllers. No, its not the same as a trigger finger etc, however I'm,up against space limits.
Wish I had the Mackie though.
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Ognis
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:33:18
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One thing about the Edirol PCR300 I wish I had is the left right pitch bend. It goes up and down too right ? I'd LOVE that... Right now the only thing I have is an Oxygen 49.
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badbib
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:51:06
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I, for one, hate this pitchbent Ognis, it's the same on all the Rolands.
In fact, I feel like it's quite impossible to be accurate withmodulation. You don't always use mod. wheel for some "tremolo" effect... it's quite nice for leslie speed, or, say, cutoff on a synth if you wanna use it a lot... but here, it becomes impossible because the mod wheel is springed. Not sure it goes down neither. On the Korg (triton), it does.
the left right pitch bend, never really played with it, so can't say how it competes with the up down.
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syrath
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 15:59:42
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Actually I find that the 4 way control is a pita, it springs back to centre bottom all the time.
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Ognis
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 16:15:10
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What does pita mean ? Is that good or bad  badbib, I played with one of those Korgs at a music shop once with the 4 way, and I loved it. It was a hardware synth, but still... Was the only time I'd used one though.
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badbib
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 16:16:38
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pita = pain in the as$
yeah, tritons are some real beasts.
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Ognis
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 16:24:06
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badbib, thanks for the traslation.. Ya know, for someone from France, you have english down better than most Americans I know! Edit, btw, was just crusing your soundclick site. Some cool music.
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 17:33:38
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ORIGINAL: syrath
Actually I find that the 4 way control is a pita, it springs back to centre bottom all the time.
It's a real PITA when trying to use it with the Garritan libraries! They depend on the mod wheel for volume control. I wind up having to re-draw my volume envelopes which really shoots down the workflow. Other than that, I really love my PCR-800.
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b rock
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/15 17:51:07
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I wish I had is the left right pitch bend. It goes up and down too right ? I'd LOVE that... The cheap way in is a Novation Remote LE. I've seen 25's currently at $79, on up with more octaves. It's worth that price for the X/Y, the joystick, and as a control surface alone. I suppose that having both vertical and horizontal options is best. You can't beat a big ol' fat PB and modwheel(s) like an Alesis. Is there a problem? I don't have a Mackie, Jesse, but I do have a Yamaha surface that uses Mackie Control. I saw much of the same thing. Let me check it back, as I had to shift to Vista, and I need to set up the dual-boot to XP Pro yet. (No Vista drivers for the O1x yet.  )
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/16 06:40:37
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Totally agreed on the roland "stick" with garritan aaargh that drives me mental-----have you tried assigining a knob to modulation thats what I do on my Fantom (still not ideal though) Andy 
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Jesse G
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RE: P5 Control Surface Feature
2007/05/16 18:01:50
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ORIGINAL: b rock
I don't have a Mackie, Jesse, but I do have a Yamaha surface that uses Mackie Control. I saw much of the same thing. Let me check it back, as I had to shift to Vista, and I need to set up the dual-boot to XP Pro yet. (No Vista drivers for the O1x yet. )
Thanks b rock,
Let me know hat you find out.
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