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  • FX Chains of no use to me - no ACT control on indivdual VSTs. Help.... (p.4)
2014/11/16 11:48:25
sharke
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
BTW in the context of the original thread, I'm pretty sure that I added ACT support for the individual plugins in an FX chain in X3d or  X3E. You have to open the plugin UI and give it focus for it to work. Its been awhile since I looked at that so maybe I'm dreaming :)




UM...UM...why was I not informed of this? LOL! 
2014/11/16 12:44:50
FastBikerBoy
Wot he said. :-D
2014/11/16 15:01:37
cityrat
ACT seems like a *really* cool idea - but it's sorta fragile and often times confusing. 
 
To me it needs a few more tweaks and ways to specify EXACTLY what I want than it guessing what I want (MS syndrome).  I'd personally rather edit a text file, but the way it stores stuff (sometime it gets corrupt) in an xml file precludes that.
 
 
2014/11/16 15:44:01
azslow3
gswitz
It works, Noel. It didn't for a while, but it does now. :-) You kinda slipped it in on us quietly without saying anything. I remember Scook pointing it out to me that it now works and I was like, Really?? haha. It made it possible for me to use my pedals with TH2 while having TH2 in the Pro Channel, so I was psyched.
 
I do have a video in my signature on using a midi controller with TH2 using ACT.


It does not work for me... X3e, fresh reinstalled the patch to be sure. Selecting/opening UI of effect in PC FX Chain does not change ACT focus (whatever was selected before is still receiving ACT).
 
Do I miss some "trick" or I just have "bad luck"?
2014/11/16 15:59:52
bitman
Ah good,
 
I had this issue bugged up in the "fix if time" category.
Now I can scratch that one.
 
Y'all should fix that. ;-)
2014/11/17 05:03:02
FastBikerBoy
Ok as promised for the OP.
 
The ACT mapping files are found in "C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\ACT Data
 
Depending on your installs you'll find several files there that you can rename ie. add "bak" or something like that to them. You will of course lose any settings you already have but you can always delete the replacement and rename the original should that not prove to be the issue.
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