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For years, MIDI controllers and control surfaces have promised to give you tactile control over your software. Unfortunately, the reality of making software and hardware work together has been a cumbersome and, worse yet, uninspiring process. Now imagine being able to call up any effect, instrument, or your mixing console, and having your favorite parameters automatically mapped to any MIDI controller. This is now a reality with SONAR 6’s new Active Controller Technology (ACT). ACT eliminates the common workflow bottleneck of constantly remapping parameters by providing a simple, intuitive way to control your mix, effects and virtual instruments from any MIDI controller or surface. Watch these videos originally recorded for SONAR 6 to learn more about what ACT can do for you:
"ACT brings the programming that would usually go into setting a hardware controller to SONAR itself. And, as it turns out, a DAW is the perfect place to coordinate controller info with software...I am sure the ACT idea is something that other sequencer manufacturers will be taking close note of."—Sound on Sound
Today, you have to
manually assign controls to the software and you are limited to one assignment
per control. With ACT, SONAR reassigns your controls
automatically based on what you are working on. Of course. The point of ACT is to eliminate
the headache of manually assigning and reassigning controls to the software.
ACT is quick to set
up. And best of all it remembers all of your favorite control settings
every time you add a plug-in or start a new project. No. ACT is an open technology in SONAR that you can
use it with just about any MIDI compatible keyboard, even the one you
own
today. Turn it on and set it to the factory default preset. SONAR comes with
templates for the most popular MIDI controllers and plug-ins on the market
to make it even easier to get started. Yes. And it is easy to switch in/out of ACT mode at any time. Yes. Yes. You can designate controls to follow ACT or
to lock to certain functions. I have a mixing control surface, a keyboard controller and a pad controller. How can ACT help me use them effectively together? ACT lets you assign a virtually unlimited number of controllers to different tasks. What MIDI Controllers does ACT support out of the box? Out of the box, SONAR has ACT presets for some of the most popular MIDI controllers including:
And with SONAR's improved MIDI learn functionality, it's simple to create ACT configurations for any MIDI device.
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