Note On/Off remote control

Hey all.  Does Sonar "send" MIDI out message for the Mute/ Solo buttons?  My app can control Sonar via remote control,  but I can't get Sonar to control it.  The MIDI track root channel is on 1 and only sends on 1 and the volume and pan are sending MIDI statusbyte B0.  So I would assume that 90 would be for these functions,  but I am not receiving any data when I select them.  The remote control receives on whatever MIDI channel is selected.  But,  does it send MIDI?

I was beginning to think this.  However,  I have used a control device (Alphatrack) and seemed as if when I selected the track in the Cakewalk window I would see the correct Mute on my device.  There must be a way I'd think.
 
Could it be added to an INI file?  Or the Master.INS file?  I am looking into that.

It seems strange that there is not as you described "bidirectional". But is it so you don't create a MIDI loop between NoteOn calls?
 
I browsed your site a little.  Seems to be impressive app.  I am needing this for an app of my own.  I would like to be able to toggle MIDI NoteOn from Cakewalk to my app.  It isn't necessary,  just would be complete. 
 
As well,  I have found that I can remote control the R W buttons for the MIDI track,  but not individual envelopes within a MIDI track.  My template has all my needed MIDI tracks,  each with an envelope assigned to its unique CC number.  I would like to include, in my app, a toggle for arming these functions.  Can't find it.
 
 
I am going to throw this question in here since you are a developer.  Is it necessary to close and reopen the MIDI port each time a byte is sent?  I wrote mine doing this and it works great.  Early on I was having a lot of trouble sending data out 2 separate ports so I toggle off and on and switch the port sending the data at the same time. Both MIIDI in and MIDI out.

My app is sending 2 MIDI messages. First is a Note On value of volume at 1 for Note On to Mute. And volume at 0 for Note Off. As well I am sending a message to control the values of the CC in a volume ranging from 0 to 127. All the data is right but Cakewalk allows assigning each envelope in a MIDI track. As well it allows the meter to be remote control also. I am having trouble with the individual envlopes. They are assigned to 0 through 31. Each envelope is in its own MIDI track. Each track is assigned to the MIDI interface I want to control it. But the envelopes are responding to input regardless of interface or MIDI input channel. I was planning on 2 interfaces each with 16 to 32 envelopes and seperate controlled .

When you operate throw Generic Control Surface or Remote Control, what you assign as particular MIDI tracks inputs is not relevant. Automation writing does not influence CC writing for MIDI track.
But I have hard time to understand what you are doing in general.

azslow3
When you operate throw Generic Control Surface or Remote Control, what you assign as particular MIDI tracks inputs is not relevant. Automation writing does not influence CC writing for MIDI track.
But I have hard time to understand what you are doing in general.

I am able to set the MIDI tracks Auto Write button to a remote. It engages but doesn't engage the global or each Write within the track such as a volume envelope. The envelope can and is assigned to any CC. When the button is pressed in Sonar itself this occurs.

That's what's fun. I only need 32 tracks but it is 2 units. One only takes 16. So just use the control surface? Don't set the automation to a note on at all?

After you save preset using controls in the top left of Generic Surface interface, you can export/import it using Cakewalk Plug-in Manager from Utilities menu. But note! If you have 2 instances of surface, do not open interfaces for them simultaneously! Also both will show the same preset name, which is not real. Just be careful with preset saving and manually type required name every time you want to save it.