I'm really happy this turned out to work.  Thanks for posting the thread fireberd.  I'm slowing getting some of my controller gear configured and I feel a lot better knowing I have a way to back up what I'm doing.
 
I've had & used every version of Sonar from P8 thru Platinum, except X1 & X2, and I still learn new stuff every time I go thru these forums.

I am glad it finally works for you.
 
For help (from the Reference Guide): "For more information about Cakewalk Plug-in Manager, see the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager, online Help." While not really "online" (F1 opens normal Windows help file for me), all operations are explained.
 
I can not imagine more strait forward way to export/import presets then "Select plug-in type/Select plug-in/Export.../Select presets" except "Export.../Import..." buttons on plug-in properties page for one particular preset. Since that is unusual operation, required during presets migration/sharing only, I think current solution is reasonable. As I wrote before, I use it all the time without negative feeling.

fireberd
I couldn't find the info in the on-line help.

"F1" is a nice key in Sonar. It works near everywhere and it opens correct documentation section (sometimes on-line, sometimes not).
 

I am an ex-programmer (worked for NASA) and from my perspective it is not straightforward.

After my attempts to use Autodesk Animator (DOS version) without documentation, ANY interface is more or less straightforward for me... From AA I have learned that sometimes you should go into sub-menu "X" of menu "Y" to change options available in menu "Z" which affect a tool from menu "ABC"
 
If you want test some really cryptic interface without leaving Sonar world, install my AZ Controller. If you have nanKontrol 2 you can configure LEDs then (make pseudo-endless encoders with arbitrary resolution from knobs, set response curves for sliders, etc...). Try to do this without documentation

fireberd
At age 78 I'm not going to try and learn current programming.  My NASA programming was on a Telemetry Processor for the Apollo project.  It was machine language.  It had a 4K core memory.

That was interesting time for programming... I had many conversations with my former boss (77 now) about fascinating projects back in 60s-70s. While I am much younger, I am a big fun of assembly language / direct code programming, Forth and solutions measured in bytes instead of gigabytes. I was even thought to write AZCtrl in MASM.
 
For X-Touch I think you have already seen proper layout in one of my posts, also my offer to mod original Mackie Control plug-in if someone need that is still valid.

The NASA Apollo tracking stations had Univac computers.  I don't remember exactly the model but 6xx seems to ring a bell.  They had a teletype machine for the I/O console. I worked on the Ascension Island tracking station before moving to Goddard Space Flight Center where I was a programmer.  Ascension Island and the tracking station in Spain were the two tracking stations that tracked the Eagle to the moon landing.