SONAR Platiinum, UAD Apollo/SatelliteFirewire and AutoMap 4?

Hi. I do not have a Apollo/Satellite.
But when I had AutoMap installed on my pc (using X3), I had a lot of issues.
Not sure if it was Windows or SONAR related.
Mostly that SONAR would hang, and become unresponsive.
Not had those kind of issues after uninstalling.
Sorry to be of no more help.
All the best.

Some Novation surfaces can work in MIDI mode without Automap software. Organizing them to work with plug-ins inside Sonar using ACT Plug-in Dynamic Mapping (and the rest of ACT for DAW/transport control) is for sure not "Auto", but possible. The result is almost equivalent to Automap capabilities but there is no "automap wrapper" between plug-ins and Sonar and so there is almost no compatibility issues (with recent Sonars, some bugs in X versions was preventing that way to work without massive tricks).
Unfortunately some Novation surfaces are working throw Automap only (by design), these are impossible to use with alternative approach.
 

I can describe which possibilities you have if you write the controller model.
In general, "using ACT" is possible with 4 approaches  (only 3 are practical):
1) "Cakewalk ACT MIDI" plug-in
2) "Cakewalk Generic Surface" plug-in
3) my own AZ Controller plug-in
4*) using ACT C++ API write own plug-in
To work with VST mappings (independent from 1-4 plug-in choice) you will need AZ ACT Fix or MarKo ACT Editor (or edit XML manually). "Default" Sonar approach without external tools, while at least possible in Sonar 2017 (some long existing critical bugs was fixed), can be frustrating.