Mapping the transport buttons from Akai Advance 49 to Sonar Pro

Has anyone accomplished this? VIP works fine for the plugins but I would really like to get the transport controls to work. The only directions I can find say to use ACT and the Generic MIDI controller but every time I try and map it to the Advance in and out the advance will not save. The only hardware I can get to save the advance MIDI in and outs to is the Tascam.

That actually is exactly my case. A Steam install. The name is in brackets and the selections revert to none. so I can never get to open it's UI. Is there a fix for that?

Thanks This did the trick. Now I just have to figure out how to get the transport keys to learn from the Akai. so far only loop and play want to learn.
 
Also should add that with Sonar I had to set the Akai Advance  transport to either CC or MMC/MIDI  using shift\Global  then the transport controls would learn through ACT
 
1. Close SONAR
2. On your system go to 'C:\Users\[Your Windows user name]\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\SONAR' (or producer/studio)
3. Delete the file called ctrlsurface.dat
4. Now open up a command window with administrator rights.
Windows 7: Type CMD in the start search. Right click on cmd.exe and select 'Run as Administrator'
Windows 8: Open up Metro, type CMD, rightclick on Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator' at the bottom of the screen.
5. In the prompt type "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cakewalk\x64\Shared Surfaces" and/or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces" without quotes and press [Enter].
Note: If your STEAM directory is not on C: or in a different path you'll need to change that accordingly.
6. Your prompt should now read that you're in the above directory.
7. Next type "Regsvr32 ACTController.dll" without the quotes and press [Enter].
8. You should receive a message stating that the .dll was registered successfully.
9. Repeat this for any of the other control surface .dll files you need to utilize and are having issues with.

azslow3
If you want more or simply want to see what your Akai is sending easy way (there are other, but not so easy), install my plug-in (see my signature).

Or install it if you just want things to work . I put the Advance 49 transport into CC mode but couldn't get the transport to play nice with SONAR using ACT (either generic control surface, or variations on a template). I tried MMC on the Akai, and that didn't work either.
 
I'm sure there are ways to make it work, but it was too frustrating. So I downloaded Alexey's plug-in, which worked perfectly. 
 
The plug-in can go very deep and it is daunting at first. Do the tutorial! That shows the basic principles. From there, it's not hard to figure out how to translate rotary or switch controls to SONAR functions. The only thing I haven't quite figured out yet is how to delete the bogus controls that appeared when I didn't know what I was doing . However Alexey has done a very good job of documentation and I'm sure I'll figure it out. After doing the tutorial, I had the transport and looping functions controlling SONAR within minutes.
 
I haven't found out how to do the "scratchpad" type of functionality for which I use ACT, and don't know if it's possible or not. But for setting up a control surface for SONAR, Azslow3 has made a fantastic contribution to the SONAR community. I highly recommend his plug-in. 

Thanks for the info! I hope to become a power user of your plug-in over time.