Studiomix w/ Sonar.

[longsoughtfor]

Hi - this is a thread I have also posted on the Yahoo Studiomixmap group but since the activity there is really low (looks like days between posts...) I thought I would ask here too:

I recently bought a Studiomix on Ebay to use as a Control
surface for Sonar 2.2XL. I am running Win2K and connect to the PC
through a Motu Midi Express (4 midi ports).

Last night, I downloaded MidiYoke and Studiomixmap and installed
both. My set up I belive looks like this:

Studiomix out -> Motu in Port 2 -> Yoke 2 -> Studiomixmap -> Sonar

Sonar -> Studiomixmap -> Yoke3 -> Motu out port 2 -> Studiomix

I belive Sonar is set up correctly since I went through a number of
system hangs and midi loopback messages when I had both yoke2 as in
and out.

I have been testing primarily with one fader and have set that fader
up two different ways.

1. When I set Studiomixmap to NOT remap then under the fader setting
for Remote Control, I set the NRPN to 3500 and Midi Ch to 16 I am
able to control the fader in Sonar from the Studiomix but the fader
is fighting my changes and I get very square volume envelopes. In
this mode, I do get reverse control of the fader on the Studiomix
from Sonar. Also, under Project settings, I have midi echo set to
none.

2. When I set Studiomixmap to remap and set the fader remap number
to for example: 64 and set the remote control dialog under Sonar to
listen to that controller and Ch16, I can do very nice smooth volume
envelopes BUT even with the Reverse Control box checked in
Studiomixmap, I am unable to get Sonar to control the fader on the
Studiomix.

Questions: It seems like I am doing something wrong in both cases
above but what? #2 above would be great if I could get Sonar to send
studiomixmap the right controls to remap. #1 wouls be OK if I could
get Sonar to stop fighting the fader... Help?

Thanks
Kevin.

 

[moskus]

Just curious... Why do you need to connect it via MIDI Yoke and Studiomixmap (which I'm not shure what is, Sonar has built-in support for the Studiomix)?

 

[longsoughtfor]

When I go straight from the Studiomix to Sonar, I have the same issue... the studiomix fader fights against any movement when I try and do a volume envelope... Perhaps that should be my first question... Any one seen this and know how to get around it?

Studiomixmap is a neat application that allows you to use a Studiomix surface to control any midi device, it lets you remap any of the controls so you could control a soft synth, drum machine whatever just by loading a new map file in. I ran across it in my search for an answer to the problem above...

Kevin.

 

[longsoughtfor]

As a sort of closure to this thread - The trouble I was having was that I had not selected "Write Fader" as the option for the buttons on each channel on the Studiomix. Also it seems like recording fader movements only happens when you push that button after starting to playback with automation enabled.

Cheers!
Kevin.