One more ACT Question...

OK...so I've pretty much got ACT well in hand. But there is one thing that I've never quite figured out:

If I load the Rapture standalone and use Rapture's built-in MIDI Learn function, I can easily assign buttons on my controller to toggle the elements on/off. I just right-click an element on/off button, click MIDI Learn and then press the button on the controller. Voila! The button toggles the element on and off.

In ACT, things are not so simple. I've figured out all of the ways you can assign controller buttons for ACT actions (i.e. to switch banks/tracks, enable ACT Learn, ect.), SONAR menu commands, transport actions, and so forth. But I can't find a way to simply assign a button as a toggle within a plugin such as Rapture. Looking at the Cell MIDI Properties dialog box (CTRL+click a cell to bring this up), I don't even see any button-related setup parameters. There are settings that apply to rotaries & sliders...but nothing to configure buttons.

Soooo, is ACT simply not capable of basic toggle button assignments, or am I missing something obvious here?? It's really great to be able to use my controller's buttons for advanced functions and ACT modifiers. But I'd like to be able make simple toggle assignments too.

Don't know if this helps, but midi off/on messages are usually 0/127. I haven't messed with ACT much, and use my BCF2k in Mackie mode.

I assume you can't just make ACT think the button is a slider?

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The generic control surface has the toggle function, can you set up both that and ACT for the same controller? I never tried it but why wouldn't it work?

Hope you don't mind if I tack on one more ACT question to your thread.

Is there a way that you can use ACT with more than one controller?? Let's say hypothetically you have two Edirol PCR 800's, and want to control Rapture on one, and Dimesion on the other. Can each synth use the sliders/faders for the keyboard controlling it?

ORIGINAL: jinga8

Yes. Since you need to specify a MIDI port for each controller, you could set up multiple controllers with different setups coming on distinct MIDI inputs...You can then just save each controller's ACT preset and have as many as you want depending on how many MIDI ports you have...

Cool !! I'm still a ways from that scenerio, but thanks for the answer, jinga. I have a lot to learn about ACT!!

you know, cGar is right. You can have each controller setup to control a different synth, but its no more useful than having one controller control ACT with a different focuses...I totally forgot about the focus part... The only way to do this would be to have one controlling Sonar through a generic surface and one with ACT...

ORIGINAL: harmony gardens
Hope you don't mind if I tack on one more ACT question to your thread.

Be my guest! ...as it seems you were. I don't mind at all.