mike_mccue

Noel says

"If you want full control of an effect [with ACT] don't use a chain."

IIRC, If you are willing to use a mouse, track ball, or pen tablet with your FX Chain 2.0 you can always work [around] with any parameter you want within the actual efx GUI.

best regards,
mike

Ha Ha That's cute Mike!  But isn't the whole idea to put the parameters you want to control on the chains GUI? 
 
Brian

Well, I guess they figured (rightly) that to control every parameter of every effect in the chain on the main GUI you might need forty-leven knobs and umpteen buttons and that ol faceplate would start lookin mighty cluttered.

yorolpal


Well, I guess they figured (rightly) that to control every parameter of every effect in the chain on the main GUI you might need forty-leven knobs and umpteen buttons and that ol faceplate would start lookin mighty cluttered.

Well then you just hide them all and use your ACT controller that has forty-leven knobs and umpteen buttons!
Mine only has half an umpteen so I have to pick and choose!
 
Brian

Thanks Noel and others for the replies I guess I've just got used to click on a UI and it's available to ACT, I assumed it would work wherever the effect was placed.

Mike, you are correct that I can control the individual components with my trackpad but I prefer to use a CS for as much as possible. The inconvenience of having to use a cursor for detailed control outweighs any benefit there seems to be to fx chains for me, so that's my brief foray into the world of FX 2.0 finished for a while..........

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
yes you have full access to pro channel via act

Can someone explain this?  None of the ProChannel modules have an act learn button.  I have tried Remote Control, but the controls are jumping and not moving properly when assigned rotaries from Axiom61.

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR%20X2&language=3&help=ProChannel.2.html
 
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The rotary encoders work fine for PAN but when assigned to anything in pro channel they jump, jerk, stick and are useless....  Bug?  I read other people with this problem.. 
 

Moral of the story: Don't play with toys on weekend, do it during week when you can call Cakewalk.
 

On my Mackie Control the select buttons work for track display and dynamics. However the EQ is a duplicate of the dynamics. There is no EQ control at all. This worked is pre X series Sonar. 

Its buggy as all hell.  I'm using ACT on ProChannel.  Seems to work one time, then next time when I change modules, the rotaries don't all move over to the module with focus.  Rotaries 1,2, and 4 are working parts of the EQ, rotary 3 is still stuck on the Compressor.  
 
I've been testing this for past four hours.  If you keep the ACT to something simple like track fader volume and pan it will work, anything more complicated and it blows up.