Allen Heath SQ as controller for CbB?

According to the A&H documentation, DAW Control MIDI 1 controls ch 1-8, and DAW Control MIDI 2 controls ch 9-16.
 
So, within CbB/Sonar, you want to add a "Mackie Control" control surface set to "DAW Control MIDI 1" for both MIDI IN and MIDI OUT.
 
You then want to add a "Mackie Control XT" control surface set to "DAW Control MIDI 2" for both MIDI IN and MIDI OUT.
 
You should then open the "Mackie Control 1" menu item from the utilities menu to open up the Mackie Control Dialog.

Press "Configure Layout", and turn rotary pot 8 clockwise 1 click, then click the "Press again when done" button.
 
Then save your configuration.
 
That should be all you need to do.

Maybe this can be useful for other SQ-owners until there´s a good setup guide from A&H available.
It seems like CbB/Sonar and SQ-series do not like each other very much at this point in time.
 
I was in contact with A&H´s Support (Alex) who gave this answer:
"Unfortunately, I am not familiar with that DAW and I do not have access to it on my system, however, I can make sure the mixer is set up correctly.

In the DAW Control Driver, MIDI ports should be selected with SQ MIDI In and Out.

To add MIDI channels to a layer on SQ, go to Setup > Surface > Strip Assign and then select DCA/MIDI on the top right and the layer you would like them assign them to. You can then drag and drop up to 32 MIDI channel strips over 2 layers."
I saved this as a scene "DAW" in the SQ-5 for quick switching between DAW/Live.
 
After trying a couple of configurations I got them to kind of work together.
A&H´s DAW Control is set to HUI and Midi ports.
I used Azslow3´s AZ Controller and in Options>Tweak Current Configuration set it to QU16/24/32 and let AZ Controller add a QU16 preset.
This allows me to control Channel, Mute and Solo buttons + Volume fader for each channel.
 
I´m not 100% sure, but I think I read somewhere that the Preamp/Eq-rotaries aren´t available for Midi-use, it would be great if I could use them to control PC-Eq & Gain.
Who knows maybe it´s user ignorance and I´ll figure it out later on - or a firmware update will make it possible.
I think the Soft Buttons should be available for midi though - my quest continues ...
 
 

azslow3
Qu had clear MIDI documentation. But I do not see it for SQ.
 
Someone recently has asked to control EQ/Comp from DM. And I remember there was some success. For which DM, in which thread... I can not remember and I can not find

It looks like the A&H DAW Controller help is common to all: https://www.allen-heath.com/media/DAW-Control-Help-V1.6.pdf
 
I found this by going to https://www.allen-heath.com/resources/ and picking SQ from the products dropdown.
 
I see pgw got it working in HUI mode using the CM MotorMix surface control DLL (which is based on HUI).
 
The docs suggest using HUI mode for ProTools, but Mackie mode for Cubase/Logic (which is why I suggested the setup as I did in my earlier post).
 
Assuming the Mackie mode on the SQ is comprehensive enough (and it's set to Mackie mode!) the EQ/Comp control should work using either azslow's EQ modded MackieControl.dll, or mine (which has azslow's changes merged in).