I vote for a complete revamp/update/scrub of the mackiecontrol.dll in X3e, accompanied by Cakewalk's publication and open sourcing of the MCP / control surface implementation.  Not that my vote counts much, but pretty please...
 
All control surface controls (e.g., mute buttons) written to automation.
 
I'm not whining, really.  I'm fairly happy with X3.  But supertight MCP integration would be the bomb! 

bitSync
I vote for a complete revamp/update/scrub of the mackiecontrol.dll in X3e, accompanied by Cakewalk's publication and open sourcing of the MCP / control surface implementation.  Not that my vote counts much, but pretty please...
 
All control surface controls (e.g., mute buttons) written to automation.
 
I'm not whining, really.  I'm fairly happy with X3.  But supertight MCP integration would be the bomb! 

+1, although I'm happy to wait till X3F, or even X4.

Awesome news, Noel! I miss being able to control EQ parameters with my BCF. Karl (Fast Biker Boy) helped me when X1 came out to get back some of the controls back but by X1c or d it stopped working. 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Hi folks,
 
Haven't forgotten about this. As you might imagine between all the stuff that we did for X3D and the changes here we have been swamped beyond belief so this was on hold due to lack of time. Definitely still intend to set it up as an open source repository probably on GitHub.
 
Also some good news - we got clearance from Roland to also open source the VS-700 surface so that should be a great resource for someone who wants to build a full blown ACT surface.
I'll do my best to set this up next month when people are back from the holidays, assuming I don't get hijacked into some other fires.
 
Sorry for the delays and thanks for your patience.

 
Bump.  Any update Noel? 

I doubt you will get it before X3E, and that's late March.

The Cakewalk-Control-Surface-SDK open source project is now live on GitHub. Thank you for your patience. 
 
We have published the source code for several production control surfaces that ship with SONAR to the open source Cakewalk community. The code can be found in the Surfaces folder. This software is distributed in the spirit of open source sharing under the MIT license. To this purpose we request that any stable/useful modifications to the control surfaces be published back for the community to build upon. Initially access to the Control Surface SDK repository is read only. You may clone this repository for your own use. If you would like to commit your changes to the GitHub master branch, please contact us with a request for push access to the repository and a moderator will review your request.
 
Please review the basic documentation in the Docs folder and the file "Cakewalk Control Surface SDK.htm" for more information about the SDK.
 
The source code for the following surfaces is now available:

ACTMidiController

Generic ACT control surface from SONAR

MackieControl

Mackie control surface 

VS100

The VS100 control surface from SONAR

VS700

The VS700 control surface from SONAR

SampleSurface

A simple sample control surface that can be used as a starting point or for testing
 
ControlSurfaceProbe
A useful diagnostic control surface that may be used for debugging
 
 

This is epic
 
Thank you Mr Brothwick!

Awesome.  Thank you.

CakeAlexS
I doubt you will get it before X3E, and that's late March.

Oops ;-)

Cheers,
Jerry

I think if someone could develop Sonar integration in M-AUDIO PROJECTMIX. I think we are enough users ....