{"id":2524,"date":"2009-07-15T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2009-07-15T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:22:05","slug":"configuring-the-act-midi-controller-plug-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/07\/15\/configuring-the-act-midi-controller-plug-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring the ACT MIDI Controller Plug-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tips-by-cakewalk4.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cakewalk_tips-sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2582\" title=\"cakewalk_tips-sm1\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cakewalk_tips-sm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>Setting up Active Controller Technology (ACT) with your software through the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in requires 6 basic steps. This tip will take you through 6 essential steps:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Enabling the correct MIDI input driver for your controller\/surface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Enabling the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in in the Controllers\/Surfaces dialog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Loading the correct preset in the control panel of your hardware controller\/surface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Opening the ACT MIDI Controller property page, selecting the name of your controller\/surface in the Presets window, and enabling the Active Controller Technology Enable button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This step is optional if your controller\/surface has a preset in the ACT MIDI Controller property page (not optional if your controller\/ surface doesn&#8217;t have a preset): Mapping knobs and sliders on your controller\/surface to cells in the ACT MIDI Controller property page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Optional: Mapping the cells in the ACT MIDI Controller property page to various parameters in your effect and synth plug-ins.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CakewalkSoftware#grid\/user\/6845803D3DEA982A\" target=\"_blank\">More Reasons to Love SONAR- ACT Part 1 &amp; 2<\/a> tutorials<\/p>\n<p>Use our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Tips\/SONAR\/ACT.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Step by Step Guide to Configure ACT<\/a> with your MIDI controller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up Active Controller Technology (ACT) with your software through the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in requires 6 basic steps. This tip will take you through 6 essential steps: &#8211; Enabling the correct MIDI input driver for your controller\/surface. &#8211; Enabling the ACT MIDI Controller plug-in in the Controllers\/Surfaces dialog. &#8211; Loading the correct preset in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/07\/15\/configuring-the-act-midi-controller-plug-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Configuring the ACT MIDI Controller Plug-in&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,78],"tags":[646,903,12,550,64,176,118,120,127,62,177],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonar","category-tips","tag-active-controller-technology","tag-act","tag-cakewalk","tag-controller","tag-daw","tag-home-recording","tag-midi","tag-plug-in","tag-software","tag-tips","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}