Only 16 ACT controllers available in 8.5 LE

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2014/05/19 02:25:56 (permalink)

Only 16 ACT controllers available in 8.5 LE

I'm setting up my various control surfaces and have been diving into ACT.  It seems to do what it says on the tin, but I can only map 16 controllers at a time to VSTs in the "ACT MIDI Controller" tool.  Is this a limitation of LE?  What if I have 50 knobs, are 34 of them just for show?  So far I can't find any info that indicates whether other Sonar versions have richer controller schemes available.
 
 
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    Re: Only 16 ACT controllers available in 8.5 LE 2014/05/21 12:10:21 (permalink)
    You have more than 16 controllers you want to use at a time?

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    Re: Only 16 ACT controllers available in 8.5 LE 2014/05/23 03:28:17 (permalink)
    OK, slight correction.  By "controllers" I guess I meant "parameters".  I have three "controllers" totaling 40 knobs/sliders.  I have mapped them in MIDI-OX to one MIDI loopback device which Sonar sees.  This all works fine.
     
    But anyway, only 16 parameters can be assigned to plugins at a time.  There are another 16 that are reserved for controlling host parameters.  The VST I'm using is an FM synth that has at least 100 parameters. 
     
    One solution I tried was to create 2 ACT controller instances, but then it turns out that only one of them can control a given VST at a time so that's no help.
     
    This is the ACT UI I'm talking about:

     
     
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    Re: Only 16 ACT controllers available in 8.5 LE 2014/06/12 03:11:12 (permalink)
    Gave up on Sonar mapping.  Vsthost does what I need:

     
    It can be used as a vst itself, so I can continue working in Sonar as before.
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