For ACT mapping MarKo has written user friendly editor, he has not announced it here but you can find it on my site. Do not be confused by BCR background, the mapping is not device dependent (device dependent file should be nullified, that avoid significant part of ACT related bugs).

Voted! Would love to see Sonar <-> NI KK integration. It's an incredible system.

Voting?

Jarsve
Voting?

Yes, that's an important aspect of this forum. In the upper right corner of the OP click a star rating to register your level of approval for the FR. Perhaps Cakewalk cares.

The guys from NI put the case better than I could:-
 

Back in June we opened up our internal file format to the world

I have tried hard... But so far I have failed to find it.
 
Is that just me who think that a "standard" means something established with clear specification and "open" means somehow available for public (may be for some fee) ?

I don't really care if Cakewalk implements NKS in their VSTi's, but what they DO need to do is get on board w/ the same advanced host integration in Sonar that is supported in Live, Cubase/Nuendo, and Logic that enables track navigation, automatic track focus, and automatic record arming w/ NI's keyboards and Maschine. 

DAW integration is not Cakewalk's task in this case. At least till there is no required specification from NI (and I guess that is not going to happened). NI can do it since the specification from Cakewalk exists.
 

azslow3
DAW integration is not Cakewalk's task in this case. At least till there is no required specification from NI (and I guess that is not going to happened). NI can do it since the specification from Cakewalk exists.
 

Are you sure? 

From http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/04/komplete-kontrol-now-plays-nice-plug-ins-hosts-coming/
 
"...so you’ll need to be a plug-in maker with access to NI’s developer tools to exploit those parameter controls"
 
And from Ableton Forum: https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=217967
 
"Is on the developers side to adopt or not the NKS standard, not on NI, if developer is interested it gets in contact with NI and gets the SDK."