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2018/07/12 10:53:14
Bassman002
HI:)
 
ACT works perfect for me with my own genericpluginparams.xml
 
File DIR is C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\ACT Data
 
But CbB DATA is in C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core
 
I can see a ctrlsurface.dat...
 
Is this affecting the old ACT with genericpluginparams.xml?
 
How does it work in the future?  At the moment it has not changed anything for me, but it was a lot of work to get all my plugins to work proper with AZController, so what if BandLab changes this?
 
Thanks;)
 
Bassman.
 
2018/07/12 11:20:48
msmcleod
Alexey's AZController uses the standard Cakewalk Surface API, as does everything Cakewalk provides in the Shared Surfaces folder.
 
If this were to change, it would mean rewriting all of these, which I doubt the bakers want to do at this point - bearing in mind this API hasn't really changed in a long time.
 
The only thing that could perhaps have an impact on this would be support for the new MIDI-CI specification, but I suspect that could implemented as an additional surface plugin using the existing API.
 
So I think you're probably fine for the foreseeable future.
2018/07/12 11:46:19
azslow3
ctrlsurface.dat always was in version specific directory, "Cakewalk Core" is just another version of Sonar, so it has its own.
I do not think they will intentionally break ACT till they completely rewrite the engine.
2018/07/13 10:32:53
Bassman002
HI:)
 
Thank you very much for this satisfying answers! So I just keep going on:)
 
@azslow3
 
Hi Alexey:) Könntest du bitte mal kucken.... Wenn ich ein Keyboard Command auf einen Rotor lege, funktioniert "Shift" nicht, also "Ctrl+Up" geht, aber "Ctrl+Shift+Up" geht nicht, dasselbe mit "Down". Hab in deinem Forum schon geschrieben. Danke;)
 
Bassman.
 
2018/07/13 12:03:58
azslow3
Entschuldigen, Ich habe es vergessen..
2018/07/13 15:33:37
Bassman002
No problem, it's not absolutely necessesary to have it;) A nice feature to have both on 1 Rotor(Enlarge All Tracks and enlarge 1 Track)
 
2018/07/13 20:56:54
azslow3
For the moment, I can just confirm that really does not work. I will dig into it later, probably not before Sunday.
2018/07/15 08:03:00
azslow3
I have replied on my forum, but just in case someone search for the topic there...
Shift+<Arrows> and some other combinations require special processing. Theoretically that should be for all <Arrows> use, but practically everything works "as is", till combinations with Shift.
Corresponding part of Sonar API has no way to specify required flags (or I have not found it), I will try to workaround using Windows API directly.
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