In case you have some cheap device and you think how good it could be to have something like Mackie MCU:

• what about instant control, "endless" feel or hi precision changes using your normal rotary/slider?
• what about "touch sensitivity" imitation for your not touch sensitive sliders?
• have you thought about having several "banks" with easy switch by rotary?
• can you imagine one of your rotary is a jogger with scrub function ?

And even in case you have some "good" device, may be with some SONAR support:

• do you want some sliders control tracks and other buses ?
• do you want control parameters from different effects, synth, strips without changing the focus?
• does some of your controls not doing what you want?
• may be you want to see "Silence, I Record my song" on display of your surface ?
• have you thought what is THEORETICALLY possible to do from Control Surface with your DAW?

In case some answers are "Yes", your need SuperUltraHyper Control plug-in which can do all that and much more!
 
You can ask where is the joke... Here it is: it is not a joke!
 
This "Hover car" between Control Surfaces technology you can download by following the link in my signature. And do not worry about the price, it is free!
 
Only several words of caution: I do not claim it is "plug and play", it is not; I do not claim it is commercial ready quality and never fail or crash, it can fail or crash (but I had no bad crashes so far).
 
EDIT: it has "Startup preset" now, a kind of genetic "plug and play" solution.
There are also presets for MCU (complete, but untested) and A&H ZED R16 and QU16/24/32 (tested but simple). PreSonus FaderPort (complete). Frontier Alphatrack (complete). HUI (basic).

There you go again, solving problems.
 
I'm going to try it out when I get back to the studio. Thanks!!

This is great work. I will test it out soon. 

Anderton
There you go again, solving problems.

At least I attempt to solve this one... Once and forever
 
I still have to document MCU features, make MCU preset and write "MCU with SONAR explained" (and I hope LOUD is not going to kill me for that). At the moment I have not tested all things together. I have TouchDAW and went only throw the transport section and basic strip setup. I doubt someone will really try to use the plug-in till it is "plug and play".
 
But I hope there is less "why my XYZ is not supported by SONAR" questions since from now on the answer is: "it is supported by third party plug-in as deep as you want, in case you find several hours to understand how it works..."
 
I do not see any problem adding HUI as well. For the rest (P4, HyperM, etc.) I could not find any documentation (even unofficial). I also do not understand why Mackie has decided to release Logic Control details in public while hiding the rest (HUI, MCU, C4...).

I'm more than curious about this.  Thanks for the hard work azslow3!

following this thread.   i'll try it when i have some time.

BlixYZ
following this thread.   i'll try it when i have some time.

Ditto.   I have a BCF2000 that I'm curious to try with this...

I will try too.  my MPD drives me nuts at times
 

stevec
Ditto.   I have a BCF2000 that I'm curious to try with this...

BCF is Mackie compatible device. So a bit more tricky then usual. I am writing "MCU explained" and there will be ready to use preset for it (precisely speaking for TouchDAW). That should be much better starting point for BCF then current blank "configuration".
 

dubdisciple
I will try too.  my MPD drives me nuts at times

The plug-in should have no problems with MPD (for long time). MMC for transport is recognized, and the number of controls is unlimited. You can just follow "ACT MIDI explained" tutorial and take parts which you need.
Since MPD has no endless encoders (if I understand the documentation correctly), I can suggest to try different combinations of curved/instant and endless imitation response. I hope you can find what is best for you.

Seems interesting. Still holding out for a Behringer: X-TOUCH myself, maybe it will get released when X4 comes out (not holding my breath).