For some reason this vanished... here it is again:
 
A few months back I did an enhancement for Sonar's MackieControl and passed it on to Cakewalk, but they've not done anything with it, so I thought I'd make it available to everyone here.
 
As it stands:

• By default, moving the faders will change the volume of the associated tracks and the select button does nothing.
• When "Select highlights track" is checked on the Mackie Control dialog, the select button works, but any change to a fader will also select the track of the fader that was moved.

What I wanted was to be able to move faders without changing the selected track, and to use the select button to change track.
 
Unfortunately, there's no way of stopping a Mackie controller from sending out the "select track" signal when moving a fader, but what I have done is change the way it's handled.
 
The enhancement now has a new "Double-click to select" option, which becomes available when "Select highlights track" is checked:
 

This allows you to "double-click" the select button to change selected track, whilst moving the faders leaves the selected track alone and continues to just change the volume of the tracks as normal.
 
If the "Double-click to select" option is left unchecked, then the behaviour returns to that of Cakewalk's shipped version.
 
I've tested this with both a Mackie Control Universal, and a Korg Nano Studio and both work perfectly.
 
You can download them from here:
 
32 Bit Sonar Mackie Control
64 Bit Sonar Mackie Control
 
To install:
Go to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces and rename MackieControl.dll to MackieControl.dll.old
Unzip the downloaded zip file, and copy the extracted DLL to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces
 
Note that if you re-install Sonar, or do an update or rollback, then this file will revert to Cakewalk's shipped version.
 
Regards,
 
Mark.
 

Thank you Mark! It is very usefull! You know, for a few years I send many mails to Cakewalk to get a new .dll plugin with another fixes. For me very important are buttons in VIEW area (work only: Track/Bus and Pan buttons), works no button in MODIFIERS area and only Read/Off and Offset buttons in AUTOMATION area. I am now not sure, if others buttons work. Unfortunately, Cakewalk do nothing in this matter, I even didn't receive any response. I notized, the old version of MCU works well with older version od SONAR. It's a pitty, MCU Pro doesn't - with SONAR Platinum...
Best,
Adam

The link to the 32 bit is not working but the 64 bit is.
thank you mark

This should also work with a Behringer X-Touch, correct?

What happens then to the Azlow .dll files?
The .dlls that ship with Sonar lack a ton of functions. 

Dickie Fredericks
What happens then to the Azlow .dll files?
The .dlls that ship with Sonar lack a ton of functions. 

I wouldn't say that. I use the stock DLL with my Mackie MCU and the editing and UI functions are deep.
But your right, AzSlow's and Marks have a good amount of bonus features.

The biggest problem I have had is selecting tracks.
 
I would love to be able to select track 1, 5.6.7,8.9.10 +14
But the WAI strip only allows me to select straight 1-8 or 3-10 or 8 thru 24, exc, exc.
 
Any way to do this using your DLL or AzSlow's ?

chuckebaby
The link to the 32 bit is not working but the 64 bit is.
thank you mark

The 32 bit link is now fixed.

msmcleod

chuckebaby
The link to the 32 bit is not working but the 64 bit is.
thank you mark

The 32 bit link is now fixed.

Thanks Mark. Really appreciate this.
 

Dickie Fredericks
What happens then to the Azlow .dll files?
The .dlls that ship with Sonar lack a ton of functions. 

From what I can see, Azlow's DLL should live alongside this one (it's called MackieControl2.dll).