Thanks Brandon and everyone, I had already tried all the suggestions above. the only thing I haven't tried is setting the Output port to 0. How do you set  this?

John, I "think" Brandon  means .. go into your midi setup.. in sonar under options and untick the midi out for the pcr.. and just leave the IN enabled and untick the output box one

HTH

I read it more as "In the controller/surfaces" dialog, where you assign the in and out ports to each controlling device, in the case of the Edirol, leave the Out there set to none.

FWIW, I have the PCR800 and have it set up as you have yours and it works fine.  It can be a little wierd since the names are pretty useless.  I have definitely had times when I needed to re-set this up on a system rebuild and had to take more than one stab at getting both the keyboard midi to record as well as the ACT parts to work.

If it's hooked up right, just pressing the "Dyn Mapping" button on the PCR should bring up the ACT control panel.  This should be your first indicator that it's working.

Blades thanks for your input -  However I have no problem pressing Dynamic Mapping and getting the ACT Control Panel to come up, that has worked form day one.  I will try resetting the Out when I am back in the studio later today.

I trued setting the out to none but this made no difference. However I noticed something.  When I hit Dynamic Mapping the ACT  Control Page pops up, although I cannot control using the PCR-300, if I use the mouse to change, for example panning, I can see the values change in the relevent setting in the ACT page.  Any ideas, it seems to be set up correctly but the sliders etc are not linked to the ACT.

hhmm and the drop down box is showing the PCR as the keyboard in use on the top left..

I mean if you turn the sliders etc . in that dialog the values change?

look in the console view and see if they move in that.. perhaps the dials on the keyboard are allocated to the synths and the sliders to the audio levels in console view.. just a thought, I don't use a PCR so am vague.

It sounds like the ACT stuff is latching to the keybaord.  Are you sure it's enabled (check box in lower left of ACT control panel)?  Also, check to make sure that it's not locked - checkbox near same location.  If you have it locked to some plugin or the mixer or whatever, it won't follow application focus and might appear not to be working.

got the PCR-500 to work tested it seems OK follow the links and a lot of trial and error but it works, the SD-90 is another story any suggestions

I've got the same ACT problem as above. PCR-800 working great as synth MIDI controller but no activity seen by SONAR ACT. Turn a knob, and no change in properties page. PCR shows it is sending data. Running WIN 10 and Platinum. The driver hack got me this far (thanks, Blades, et al). Hoping to get up and running in ACT.