ACT / CC data - Midi Learn

I do not have Maschine, so you get no ready to use solution from me.
 
But you can make the first perfect preset for Maschine with SONAR yourself!
See the link in my signature for details.
 

I believe this was raised in the past by several (maybe 2?) folks - I have to do a couple of things real quick, but will do some searching to see what I can find on this.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks for your patience - I am literally working on 3 different computers at the moment, and have had zero sleep since a day and a half ago - Thursday night.
 
I will do some digging for you, I promise.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

Another option would be to email NI (or even post to their forums) to see if anyone there had made a surface for SONAR. It would seem that someone has already done that and might possibly share it. Would seem a shame to re-invent the wheel if already done.

markyzno
For me the frustration is within the ACT/Remote/midi Learn functionality within Sonar. It's not great.

The second (and the last) attempt. I am not spammer.. I just try to help.
 
ACT is mapping between virtual "control X" and "parameter Y" in plug-in, changed when you focus another plug-in to "parameter Z". What is Y and Z are configurable (ACT learn). Nothing more.
 
Remote/MIDI Learn is basic MIDI control, almost historical.
 
Sonar has a concept of Control Surface plug-ins. They are responsible for communication with hardware and performing tasks in Sonar (ACT is just a small part of possible tasks). CW has limited set of such plug-ins. Some hardware producers have product specific plug-ins (Nektar, Novation, Mackie and Roland), just for several devices and partially outdated.
 
CW has 2 generic plug-ins, suitable to use with many devices. But only simple devices are covered. And only small subset of possible operations is allowed to be assigned.
 
The idea was that hardware producers will write own plug-ins for serious devices, the API and the source code is public since long time. It is not about "template" or configuration, it is about real binary program, specially developed for particular device to support CW products. Unfortunately, hardware producers do not see an interest in such development.
 
I have developed universal plug-in, which can be configured by everyone, without programming skills. It is able to work with almost any device communicating throw MIDI. Unlike generic CW plug-ins it support bidirectional communication. It can trigger close to all supported operations in Sonar.

markyzno
Surely as I  suggested in my original post, if Sonar had a better system than the current process of ACT and GUI that it would make us, the customer creatives a far off better place to interact our studio kit, I am not talking about cutom built non linear gear here, I am talking about a MAJOR DAW and a MAJOR Controller.

Sonar has advanced system for control surfaces! But it is not ACT and it has no GUI. It is API.
 
The problem is that Sonar is not a Major DAW for NI and Machine is not a Major controller for CW. Marketing rules.
 
A year ago I could agree with everyone that there is no way to use the potential of Surface XYZ with Sonar. So I have exposed powerful Sonar CS API as something configurable and with GUI. In a hope that such addition triggers some user activity and creativity. Such activity in turn could attract some attention from CW side, there are quite some bugs there and some new features could be handy. But nothing has happened so far. Which just prove that CW idea to move into touch direction and freeze hardware controllers support was right.
 
You can turn the wheel. Create some interesting interaction between Machine and Sonar (inside AZC, my claim is that IS possible) and so attract more users to use Machine with Sonar. That can make CW users potential customers for NI and Machine users potential customers for CW. And both companies can be convinced to spend some time for development in that direction.

Try this guys plugin.  Worked awesome for my console.  Now I can control everything I need in Sonar from my ZED R16.
 www.azslow.com - my Universal MIDI Control Surface plug-in