Hi all:
This is a thread started so that we Keystation Pro 88 owners can share presets to use with SONAR and the ACT MIDI Controller and Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-Ins.
There may be a better way to share setup files for this purpose, but here's what I've been able to come up with.
There are 4 files in a zip I'm sharing for this 2nd attempt by me to provide some setup files for us Keystaion Pro 88 folk.
1) ReadMe Text
2) ACT Preset
3) Cakewalk Generic Surface Preset
4) Enigma Preset
This is a test to see if I got every thing right, this 2nd time around. Instructions, and a description of the controllers funtctions are in the ReadMe included in the zip file.
Can somebody download the zip file and let me know if every thing is working correctly? I have made it so the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in, the Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in, and the MMC Plug In are used to utilize all the buttons, rotories, and sliders on the KSP 88, except 1 slider. The one slider exception can be assigned via remote control, to control the Master Bus volume.
This is a basic setup for the KSP 88 that controls basic track parameters and basic transport functions. Here is a thread for us to share our setups. I hope more SONAR users are interested.
If you have any ideas of a more appropriate way to share setup files, please post here.
Update: October 04, 08
It seems there was a problem with the .cwp file included with the 1st setup zip I made available. I don't know why I can't share a SONAR project without users having a problem with the setup files working as intended. I even had a problem with the sysex message transmitting successfully, at a point in time. I have decided to have users just load a Cakewalk project template to use with the presets in this setup file zip. Hopefully, things will work better and more consistently as intended. Instead of sending a SysEx transmission from a Cakewalk Project to load the needed preset for the Keystation Pro 88, I have included an Enigma preset that can be loaded into the Keystaion Pro 88 by using Enigma. I hope some users can try the new setup files and report your experience here. If things go as intended, I can make more presets available which will cover controlling more than just 8 tracks and basic track parameters.
Here's the link to download the zip:
http://cid-4b7db487273f54de.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public?uc=1&isFromRichUpload=1&lc=1033 Update 2: June 07, 09
One thing I've noticed is that when I load the MMC plug In, it wont keep the Input I select (and this means that the transport buttons on the KSP 88 wont work for me), so I made another Cakewalk Generic Surface plug in preset. This new preset allows for the transport button on the KSP 88 to drive the SONAR transport functions. The only one that doesn't work is the FF button. I don't know what's the deal with it.
This new preset (CGS Keystation Pro 88 Test (Preset-10) TR) and the ACT preset (ACT Keystation Pro 88 Test (Preset-10)) should be all that is needed so that things work as explained in the readme included in this zip file. In other words, the MMC plug in doesn't need to be used, if a user loads the new Cakewalk Generic Surface Preset named (CGS Keystation Pro 88 Test (Preset-10) TR).
The MMC plug in was used so the transport buttons on the KSP 88 would control SONAR's transport functions, but the new CGS plug in preset has been setup so that the transport functions are linked to the CGS plug in, now.
Another thing I noticed is that if the controls on the KSP 88 are not working after the presets for ACT and the CGS has been selected in the plug ins properties, it is most likely due to a corrupted transmission when transmitting the Enigma setup file to the KSP 88. The solution for me was to reload the Enigma preset and retransmit it from Enigma to the KSP 88, and recall Preset 10 on the KSP 88. One way to check if the transmission was corrupted or not is to (after Preset 10 is recalled) repeatedly press one of the buttons B44 -B51 or C52-C59 (when one of these buttons are pressed, you should only see the value 127 show on the KSP88 LCD Display). If you press one of these buttions repeatedly and see 00 and then 127, that means the SysEx Transmission was unsuccessful or corrupted. I have programmed these buttons to repeat one value of 127, so a toggled value of 00 and 127 is not correct.