And as a control surface I've had all the problems listed here and more - one knob controlling 4 parameters of an effect simultaneously, knob assignments being lost, knobs being unassignable, toggle switches doing the weirdest things, and so on. Seems there's not a single external controller that simply works out of the box with ACT.Īs for me, I can either use my O2 as a musical input controller or a control surface, but not both. There are about half a dozen simultaneous threads going on about ACT and all its problems. The default mappings for plugins are very odd, I must say.Īny help on any of the above issues is greately appreciated. Until I've had this problem solved I'll move on to try to map the plug-ins.
Software for midiman oxygen 8 pdf#
I hope Cakewalk's made the neccessary changes to the printed manual that they'd said they'll be selling separately soon and that the help files and the PDF file in 6.1 will be changed. When it comes to editing the ACT Midi Controller, all of them describes the Generic Surface plugin rather than ACT. The manual, the PDF-file and the help file doesn't talk about any of this at all. So far the track/console implementation of ACT seems very rigid and not very well explained. Why can't I map the rotaries to EQ for example or whatever I want and why can't I use the sliders in channel strip mode? I see on the options page that I do the assignment of the parameters there, but surely it can be fixed to a whole row of knobs just controlling volume or pan.Īnd what about in channel strip mode, it's only the rotaries that change into pan and bus send and pan. I've tried enabling Act learn, click on the cell and then the bus send act learn, cell, bus send and then knob etc. How on earth do I do that? I really don't understand this. It's all very well having volume and pan in preset 1 and 2 for me, but what if I want to change this mapping so that knob 1 is tack 1 volume and knob 2 is track 1 pan. Tried to assign the rotary mode to a knob. The cell says it's in midi learn mode until I touch the knob, just as it does when I map a knob to the sliders or rotaries.
I click on learn, click on the cell and then move the knob. So, then I thought, why not try to change the rotaries and sliders bank by assigning this to one of the buttons and map this to one of my knobs in preset 3. It seems like you can only assign menus and ACT specific messages to the buttons. Either by assigning bus send and pan to these buttons and controlling the level by the knobs in preset 3 and 4 on the Oxygen, but the options page doesn't give me that option. I would now very much like to use the 16 buttons in some way. The mapping, which I understand you do on the options page is set to volume and pan for rotaries and sliders respectively. So preset 1 goes to rotaries and preset 2 goes to sliders. rotaries and sliders, by using the presets in the Oxygen 8. I can assign the 8 knobs on my Oxygen 8 to a "cell" in the ACT Midi Controller Controllers page to the first two rows, i.e. I've spent hours today and yesterday trying to get this to work, reading manual, PDF file, online help for Sonar and ACT, checking this forum for clues. Obviously there must be some serious user error at work here, but given the confusion in the manual and help files, I'm not totally blaming myself.įirst of all, the below is all about the track/console view application of ACT. I guess that's by design but for example, I'm changing a filter cutoff in Albino 3 and notice it's also panning, which I don't even know how it got set up to do. Some Oxygen knobs move multiple ACT knobs / parameters. Nor with Absynth 3 (only tried that once). Doesn't work at all with z3ta+, as far as I can tell. It worked a bit the first time I used it with Octopus but not since.
Seems to works pretty good with Pentagon. I have had intermittent success using it with Albino 3. Sometimes I don't see the knob moving in the ACT screen but I can see it move in the pluging and hear the parameter changing, and sometimes I see the knob move but it's not affecting the parameter. Sometimes I can re-learn a knob, sometimes I can't. Works differently with the same plugs every time I try it. I am finding ACT and the Oxygen8 really hit or miss.
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