Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem

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2013/01/16 22:54:12 (permalink)

Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem

I'm trying to map prochannel EQ controls to my control surface and I'm having a problem. My surface (Tascam FW-1082) has 4 rotating controls for a single track, and 8 volume sliders. Out of 4, Pan controls pan on active track. What I want is to map other 3 to EQ gain controls. But no matter what I try it only maps to a particular track's EQ and keeps controlling it no matter what track is selected. What I want is to control only selected track EQ and not globally tie surface to a single track's EQ. I tried ACT or MIDI mapping, and remote contrlol MIDI learn - same effect. The old plugin for Tascam used to control EQ just fine, but it doeesn't work in X2. Also when I map rotating controls to sends using fresh ACT interface it works OK for current track but the rotation is reversed (counterclockwise in Sonar when clockwise on surface) and I can't figure out how to reverse mapping. Any ideas? Also, when I'm trying to set Tascam to Mackie emulation mode, and create Mackie surface in Sonar it doesn't respond... I guess that's a Tascam problem, but if anyone succeeded making FW-1082 work OK with Sonar X2 - please let me know. Thanks
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    FastBikerBoy
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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/17 02:39:23 (permalink)
    I don't have the FW-1082 but on most surfaces including ACT there is usually an option to "lock" it to a particular track. I'd have a good look round the options dialogue for your surface set up and see if there's anything like that there.

    I have the option assigned to a button on my ACT surfaces so I can change it on the fly..

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/17 10:58:04 (permalink)
    The interface does not offer anything beside designation for 4 assignable buttons. So I added another generic "ACT Midi control surface" with midi ports for my surface and my question is about how to do it when programming a generic surface from scratch.

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/17 12:29:22 (permalink)
    Have a look at my ACT video on youtube. At around 7:20 I switch to the ACT options tab and while I don't mention them specifically there is an "ACT follows context" box on that page that needs to be checked (although one of mine works the other way round )

    In the same video at about 9:15 you'll also see the other checkbox you need to check. The ACT enable one. Video HERE

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/17 12:57:16 (permalink)
    Thanks, I'll check it out. I actually tried both having "act follows context" on and off and it didn't seem to make any difference: mapped rotators always controlled the same EQ with no regard which track was selected. I tried it with sliders too and with a separate MIDI controller...

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/17 21:07:36 (permalink)
    Thanks for the video, watching it I found out that I was doing something wrong. Although i can't make EQ work by default from mixer view (I guess it's a Sonar limitation), when I select it manually, everything maps correctly now.

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/01/18 02:23:47 (permalink)
    No worries. Glad you found it useful. I'm not sure why you can't but if it is set up as an ACT controller you should be able to control the EQ. Are you using the producer version, i.e. Prochannel?

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    Re:Control EQ from MIDI control surface problem 2013/07/21 01:12:10 (permalink)
    Hey Karl,
     
    Just wanted to say thanks. The video helped me set up my Tascam US-2400's rotary's to control the EQ parameters in prochannel.
     
    Moebiuscat, you may have to set up 2 or more generic ACT controllers to do what you want do do, unless the FW-1082 has a "CHAN" function that changes the midi CC of certain rotaries when activated. if so, you would just need to set up a controller for the rotaries under that mode. (check the owners manual if your not sure, or look for a CHAN button on the control surface)
     
    when you use Mackie Control emulation, It (usually) takes everything on your control surface and assigns it to that controller, so that you won't be able to set up the other rotaries on a new controller. so by creating the controllers for everything from scratch, you can make sure to have the rotaries as their own controller. then you'd be able to do what you wanted.
     
    it would be a bit tedious but should be doable. of course, this is an old thread, so hopefully you've already got something figured out, but if not, maybe this can help.
     
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