Not to mention it took 1-1/2 yrs to even get a response to this post, so he prolly gave up.

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Not to mention it took 1-1/2 yrs to even get a response to this post, so he prolly gave up.
 

 
I had to go back and look!! Damn your right!! Wow!!
 
Yep he either gave up or found another group!!

Are you still using the Behringer X-Touch with Sonar or BandLab? I saw your review on Sweetwaters' site.

Hmm - anybody using a controller with BandLab? Do you guys think after being sold and passed around Cakewalk is doomed?

Just check out other posts on the subject. Lots of people use controllers of various types around here. I dont, per se, but my mixer interface recorder does allow for transport controls.

Jgillilan
Hmm - anybody using a controller with BandLab? Do you guys think after being sold and passed around Cakewalk is doomed?

You can use any controller... Including OSC based apps, even without rtpMIDI. 2013 there was no AZController
 
There was no changes in native controllers support during last 10 years, in fact more then that. Roland has tried with own and had no success for several reasons. All these devices had questionable price/value ratio, old Edirol interfaces which never was on top was re-packed without changes, but for extra components, which was not bad, Roland as usual has asked too much. Any device is only as good as the worse component in it, so the combination in specification and functionality was more like "low end".
I personally think Cakewalk was doomed after Sonar 8. CbB is still just Sonar 8, facelifted and inaccurately hacked at many places. All new features luck "integrity", f.e. none of them can be controlled from surfaces. On positive side, CbB has much less bugs then early X1-X2.

 
Unless I am mistaken, PreSonus is the only company that has a controller and software that is made exclusively to work together. (not counting Pro Tools) But it does state it will work with other DAWs. There is a section for set up in the Manual for Sonar but several control functions are limited. Because Studio One does not have the capability to mix surround sound I will probably go with both DAWs for now. If Sonar is doomed for the future it will be nice to have another DAW and PreSonus seems like a solid company but you never know.
 
 

Not just Presonus, Ableton produce the Push controller for Live. Though it’s not exactly “conventional” in approach.

And Yamaha produce Nuage for Nuendo. Conventional, but not the cheapest solution

Thanks guys. This forum is a lot friendlier than most. Go on video forums. I was searching for a better audio encoder for surround sound for the windows platform. Most offer the old outdated Dolby AC3 which severely compresses your audio file when burning to a Blu-ray disk. All I did was inquire and man you thought I was asking for something evil. Haters came out everywhere, said I was over my head and my expectations were too high. But one guy found out that Cyperlink Power Director's (cheap program go figure) authoring software uses a first generation DTS encoder which is far superior to the AC3 when burning. So I guess it was worth it in the end getting all the negative comments. Thanks again guys!