It is sort of working but a bit different. First after you had installed the driver, be sure to switch off and on APRO. Then press the ACT switch on APRO. At Sonar's Preference (Press P) page > midi> Control Surafces, you can toggle between APRO 1 for soft synths, and APRO2 for Sonar's tracks fader/panpots or PRroCHannel EQ.
I had so far tested 4softsynths with ACT, 3 of them works, (Alpha CM and synthmaster and Zeta2) and one is not (Harmor). ACT work best when you engage the recycle plugins window. ( Preference (Press P) page > Vst Settings> General>).
This is only a 15 minutes test. I have not tried any effects plugins.