Hi folks!
Yesterday the Qcon Pro X arrives.
Well, I'm going to share my experience with all of you.
 
First, nothing happens. The mackie option in Cakewalk SONAR didn't work out of the box as expected.
 
Then, I tried several things like replacing the MackieControl made by Sdupayage or trying to understand how to make it work with AZslow3 Control... but nothing happens (may be I was doing something wrong... is very possible...)
 
My last attempt was to upgrade the firmware of the Qcon Pro X.
It came with the version 1.06 and I upgrade it to 1.07 (I don't like to do these upgrades beacuse the hardware can be ruined if you do it wrong or something happen...)
But... THEN IT WORKS GREAT!!

Sonar could make it work with the standard Mackie protocol!!!
Every seems to work well, except the Meter bridge and SMPTE Lcd display... :(
The rest works great like the label names in the display, moving faders, Jog shuttle wheel, Star, stop, solo, mute and so on...
The strange thing was: triyng in Adobe Premiere, everything works including the metter bridge!! (but not the SMPTE display).
 
Conclusion: If you have this devie, you shold do the upgrade... it worth it... Version 1.06 doesn't work with Mackie Control, but 1.07 does.
If anyone can help me making work the metter bridge and SMPTE LCD display, please do it!!
Thank you to everyone, regards from La Argentina.
 

Thank you for letting us know that iCon has finally managed to implement Mackie handshake properly!
 
With meters, have you set MackieControl option "Meters" to "Signal LEDs + Meters" (default is "Off")?
 
With SMPTE. I remember some devices set SMPTE display into "MIDI mode" by default,
I mean it is displaying MIDI time code. You can either try to find how to switch it into Mackie mode (only iCon/documentation can help) or at least test that something is displayed when you enable "Send MIDI Sync" with "Transmit SPP" and/or "Transmit MTC" (with your qCon checked in both lists), in the Sonar Preferences / Project / MIDI
 

Hello Folks,
 
For anyone interested I just purchased the Behringer X-Touch, and with the new firmware version 1.15 its the dogs nuts and a bag of chips, it works, my only caveat is that Cakewalk needs to wake up and extend its Mackie Control protocol, its very old and you can't modify too much except the F1 to F8 Function keys and some others, using a control surface like X-Touch, Cakewalk should open up the editing features for Mackie control a little, however it does work great out of the box, just remember to go into the Mackie control properties to make your meter and touch fader adjustments, and don't use too many USB items in your system, you'll get USB MIDI bottleneck issues.
 
Jimi Jones

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For anyone interested I just purchased the Behringer X-Touch, and with the new firmware version 1.15 its the dogs nuts and a bag of chips, it works, my only caveat is that Cakewalk needs to wake up and extend its Mackie Control protocol, its very old

There are already several discussions about X-Touch, this thread is about different device from different manufacture.
 
Cakewalk implementation of Mackie Control protocol is complete, protocol defines only how to communicate with each button/fader/encoder. It say nothing about what they should do.
 
X-Touch is a COPY of more then 10 (15?) years old device. It is "very old"
 

and you can't modify too much except the F1 to F8 Function keys and some others, using a control surface like X-Touch, Cakewalk should open up the editing features for Mackie control a little, however it does work great out of the box, just remember to go into the Mackie control properties to make your meter and touch fader adjustments,

If you want complete freedom in configuration, you can download AZ Controller and configure everything yourself. That obviously requires some skills.
 

and don't use too many USB items in your system, you'll get USB MIDI bottleneck issues.

MIDI devices will have hard time to saturate USB bandwidth. You will need to feel your room with X-Touches to achieve that. And any computer has more then one USB controller. But in older Windows there was MIDI devices limit, that is USB unrelated.

just received my icon pro X
Will ot recognize in sonar, latest firmware.
what am I missing?

 
 
 
 
 
 
please leave a step by step accounting of how you did this. I just received my Qcon Pro X today and it wont even recognize in sonar. I have latest firmware, using mackie control stock plugin from Sonar Platinum

Are you sure you have 1.07 firmware, as reported by MadbeatEstudio?
 
You can also start with: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Mackie-Control-support-improvements-m3311275.aspx
In that variation there is "Compatibility" option, so the device will (a kind of) work even with old firmware.
You will need the next release of this plug-in in case you are going to control ProChannel, current version (of this and stock plug-ins) will crash Sonar when pointed to ProChannel compressor.

Well its working now, and its freakn amazing. Blows Mackie MCU pro out of the water.
The trick was to replace the mackie dll file with a modded one from a user on a diff post.
This unit will not work with the stock mackie control driver that comes with sonar.
Will be uploading a video to YT for more details.
 

Can you share the modded .dll? I'm having the same issue. My Pro X works superb with Studio One..can't get it to do a thing in Sonar.