Message 17/17
Date: 24-Aug-03 @ 01:59 PM -
RE: Sonar 3 Screen Shots
of course - imo, Project5 is superior to Reason because it allows VSTi's & DXi's to be added to the already included excellent sound-generators. So I'd say ORION is more it's competitor.
Anyways tho - it seems a shame that a plenty powerful enuff PC cant run Project5 rewired to SONAR2 and utilise multiple outputs.
If you run P5 rewired with just stereo outs, then efficiency is fine. But ti seems a shame to not take advantage of the multi-out channels to mix it in SONAR's mixer.
Point 2 I've discovered this week is I cant find any way to employ controller moves in SONAR2 to manipulate Project5 sound-generators either
as BOTH are Cake products, a full listing of controllers for P5 synths SHOULD appear in SONAR2 for selection and immeadiate use.
I spent an hour trying every common CC I could think of in SONAR2 to try to move any of PSYN's parameters/pots - all I could get to work was the common Volume CC7 & PITCH WHEEL controllers.
That HAS to change because other softs hosts show the full CC's even for inserted 3rd party DXi & VSTi synths, made by another company... never mind their own product!!
Mebbe Sonar3 will address this issue. At the least, inserted P5 DXi's should have a click/learn for all pots/slider etc, OR, at the very least a right-click 'show CC number' display would be a start.
I think it's because of the very clever P5 protocol where the actual P5 synth is controlled via a buffer outer-layer where you assign controllers to the controller section of the display (to the left of the actual synths0 and that transmits the CC's to the actual synth - GREAT idea, but without that outer communicating part in P5 it all seems to go pear-shaped.
or have I got it all wrong ? - I cant see any way to control PSYN in SONAR2 anyways - can it be done?... how?