Mystic38
Until someone can confirm mackie control protocol working with Sonar, a solution is to use Sonar ACT and program the ACT template for maschine with midi learn.. I have used the following assignments

B1: Maschine "Restart" to Sonar "go to start"
B2: Maschine "Play" to Sonar "play/stop"
B3: Maschine "<" to Sonar "go to previous marker", or "go to previous measure"
B4: Maschine ">" to Sonar "go to next marker", or "go to next measure"
B5: Maschine "Erase" to Sonar "record"

B4 is dependent on whether you use Markers or not
B5 depends on your workflow...

regards,

Sorry to resurrect an old thread.
Thanks for this. It works for Maschine 2 + Studio. However I couldn't get B3 and B4 with any buttons with arrows on them (or jog wheel).
 
However don't you find it is unresponsive when pressing buttons?
ie. You have to "double click" the maschine buttons to get it to work every time?
 
 
 
Cheers...