[A6] NRPN with Sonar

[Michael E. Caloroso]

Um, I beta tested the A6's NRPNs with Cakewalk Pro Audio v4.5 and had 
zero problems getting them to work.

Mind you, my Cakewalk v4.5 is circa 1993 running on a 486 PC with 
Windows For Workgroups 3.11, all 1993 vintaj computer stuff.

Me upgrade?  Why fix something that isn't broke?  I got off the upgrade 
treadmill YEARS ago.  Plus I use SMPTE to sync MIDI sequences to analog 
tape, and the Music Quest MQX32M card I use was orphaned by 
Opcode^H^H^H^H^H^HGibson Guitars years ago and thanks to those 
butterfinger buffoons there are no WIN9x/NT drivers for the card.  To 
this day no one makes a MIDI/SMPTE PC card as good as the Music Quest 
MQX32M.

Latency?  Not on this system; WFW311 drivers don't get in the way of 
MIDI near as bad as WIN9x/NT drivers do.

That's my _MUSIC_ PC; I have a _SEPARATE_ PC for everything else that is 
running WIN2K.

MC


Larry Pham wrote:
> After many attempts at controlling and editing the NRPNs with Sonar, I can
> now say that it is NOT possible to control or edit the parameters of the A6
> (the ones that uses nrpns) within Sonar! Sonar does have envelopes which you
> can assign to control NRPNs but the A6 requires at least two numbers (MSB &
> LSB) to control any one function therefore... I have givin up all hopes that
> any sequencer will be able to handle the A6's NRPNs properly :-(     I was
> just about to buy an older version of Sonar just for this fearture too.
> Thank god for demos! I guess all I can do now is nag Steinberg to implement
> it in their future updates.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Pham" <alienpsyche at rogers.com>
> To: "Larry Pham" <alienpsyche at rogers.com>; <a6 at code404.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [A6] NRPN with Sonar
> 
> 
> 
>>... don't mean to be a bother but does any Sonar user know how to control
>>NRPNs?
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Larry Pham" <alienpsyche at rogers.com>
>>To: <a6 at code404.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:58 PM
>>Subject: [A6] NRPN with Sonar
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hey guys. My apologies but I can not remember who I was talking with
> 
> about
> 
>>>using Sonar to control NRPNs, so this is a question for him or who ever
> 
> is
> 
>>>familair with Sonar. I just downloaded the demo of Sonar from the
>>
>>Cakwalk's
>>
>>>site and thought I try out this marvelous feature of controlling the
> 
> NRPNs
> 
>>>with an envelope. I have figured out how to call up the menu to select
> 
> the
> 
>>>envelope type, (this case being NRPN) but there is also an option to
> 
> input
> 
>>>the control number. Now reading the A6's sysex manual, there are more
> 
> then
> 
>>>one number to control any one function. So I trried controlling FILT_1
>>>FREQUENCY POT which is
>>>
>>>Parent (MSB) 18,
>>>Child (LSB) 0,
>>>NRPN ON,
>>>Sysex Only default 0.
>>>
>>>.... I tried inputing 18 as the control number in Sonar but this does
> 
> not
> 
>>>seem to do any thing. How does it work? I am especially confused when it
> 
> 
>>>comes to certain functions like FILT_1 RESONANCE POT which uses MSB, LSB
>>
>>and
>>
>>>Sysex Only defualt. Can some one please explain how they can control
> 
> these
> 
>>>NRPNs.