Has anyone had any luck using the two together? I can get it to move sliders, but it totally freezes transport from both the iPad and the computer. Pressing play seems to start playback for a couple of milliseconds and then it just stops. It seems like the programming is way off from before.

there is a known issue that at times it freezes at "connecting" as a control surface but once its connected i have not seen any issues with it...

Working flawlessly here but I prefer V-Control Pro.

I've tried it.  You'll need to be in SONAR mode, and click the "reset" button for it to connect successfully.

Works great!

Everything mentioned above applies -
Plus, I have noticed that under X2, the control surface dialog doesn't change to "connected" until I move one of the AC-7 sliders.

Hmm, that is not the experience I have had. The transport just refuses to budge and only 2 or three of the buttons work. It appears I just wasted $8.

try this..

navigate to C:Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar X2 Producer folder with Windows Explorer and delete (or rename if you're the cautious type) ctrlsurface.dat and ttseq.ini.


Restart Sonar, select your MIDI inputs and outputs, create a Mackie control surface and hit reset on the AC-7

Just fired up one after the other.

AC-7 is IMHO more finicky - needs a kick start to work.

V-Control works straight away. Of the 2 I way prefer this one.

Cheers,
Jerry

Yes, V-Control is likely to work a bit more reliably.  We often work directly with Neyrinck to maintain compatibility.

Aha, THAT is interesting to know Bill, thanks !

I will stick with it for the fututre.

Any hints as to what we can expect ? Go on, you can tell us here, we won't pass it on ........ ;-)

Cheers,
Jerry