The final selection box determines the MIDI Output port that will be used to send and receive the automation information to the hardware interface.
As you are likely to use the Configuration window a lot, it can be collapsed to a minimum size at any time, and then expanded back to normal size when you need it. The most important application of StudioMix's motorised faders is obviously in the automation of a Cakewalk mix.
I won't go into the basic operation of the Cakewalk sequencer, as we have reviewed many of its various incarnations in these pages already most recently, Pro Audio 7 in September ' However, it is worth noting that to use the StudioMix hardware controller you must have the Console View window open — if you want more screen space you can temporarily minimise it, but if you close it, hardware contact will be lost.
The automation data for each playback channel appears within the existing tracks, apart from that of the Main channel , which has its own Console Automation channel as shown here. You can edit any of the data using the existing Event List editor. You can run a Macro named RoughMix to do this for every track automatically one of the soft buttons can also be set up to do this if you like.
However, you have to be careful not to alter any fader or pan controls when the song is at the start position, since these get automatically written into the Track View again, which is rather annoying — even if you run the RoughMix Macro to null the controls, if you are at the start position they get immediately overwritten.
To record an automated mix, you click on the Record Automation button in the Console view. If the Update button in the Console is selected then the faders will also move in response to previously recorded automation data. Rotary controls can be moved at any time without needing to be armed, but if you want to record fader movements, you need to have set the channel buttons to Write Fader mode.
You can then use them to punch in and out during playback to alter existing automation — when you press a Write Fader button, the onscreen background colour of the appropriate fader will change. This is ideal for dealing with stereo tracks or backing vocals. However, there are no separate 'group automation tracks': Cakewalk records automation data for each track as controller information on the track itself, so each channel in the group will have an identical set of controller information recorded to it.
Previously recorded automation data can be edited in the individual tracks. It appears as MIDI controller information, and details of the controllers used are in the help file. One strange feature of the Main channel is the lack of a stereo Level option for the fader — you can control either the left or right channel, but not both ganged together.
This seems a very odd omission, since this is normally what most people will want to do with the stereo master faders! In the case of standard playback channels you can group several faders together, but with the Main channel this doesn't work — it functions beautifully while recording, but only one track of automation data is recorded in the single Console Automation track, so on playback either the left or right main faders will be automated, but not both.
The beauty of motorised faders is that they always show the correct current position — it is hard to see why users should have to Arm the fader using a separate control before they can override existing automation data.
Peavey's hardware is good, but it is only really the motorised faders and bundled software that distinguish it from their existing PCX controller — yet StudioMix is more than twice as expensive. Given its MIDI controller interface, it would only take a little more technical work to let VST and Logic Audio users get in on the act as well — although I suspect that this might be politically tricky for Peavey, as they have obviously chosen to wed the StudioMix firmly to Cakewalk's software.
However, extending the range of compatible sequencers would open up the possible market for StudioMix considerably.
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Unread PMs. Forum Themes Mobile Progressive. Essentials Only Full Version. I recently got a new PC and want to update my software to something more up-to-date.
Maybe MC6. WRK files. But is my Peavey StudioMix supported? I found hints that it is supported in Sonar at least some older versions , but what about MC6?
Thanks, Diddie. Kalle Rantaaho. Welcome to the forum! But that's a guess. When I moved from the old cakewalk Pro 8 in my case to the newer MC series, I found that many things had changed.
The old things and ways I used to use were outdated. New things were in MC that were not in the pro series. I started to learn the new stuff and have never wanted to go back to the pro series way of working. I have no clue. So I've downloaded the Cakewalk Control Surface Plugins from the link you've provided but after I extracted it all and run it the following text appears Cannot locate the required version of this program on this system, Please install the correct version of the program to use this pack.
Good day, so I was told by support cakewalk. If anyone has a Sonar manual and could link me pictures of the parts of the manual that shows how to setup a control surface in Sonar that would be amazing. In Pro Audio 9 it use to be a checkbox that you would have to click on in the console view to get a Studiomix working with it. Please and thank you. I saw a copy of the Sonar manual online, it doesn't say any thing about StudioMix nor how to setup a control surface but I might get Microsoft to do a roll back to Windows 10 version for me and then try to install the Cakewalk Control Surface Plugins software cause that version of Windows was out the year the Cakewalk Control Surface Plugins software was released, I've managed to get StudioMix preset in Cakewalk By Bandlab but I guess it wouldn't work without the Cakewalk Control Surface Plugins software installed cause Windows would need to recognize it.
I hope I don't have to throw my StudioMix in the garbage cause it's to good, anyone have any suggestions? Thanks to everyone who helped. Hi, albert, I got a used studiomix like you. Ok, I see that Albert got his operational, but I don't see any mention of how. How do I get a copy of studiomix. It would be quite helpful to have the file available for Studiomix users, or have it as part of Cakewalk for Bandlab.
Please advise on how to get this dll. I googled studiomix. Studiomix appears to work in Generic Surface ACT controllers; however, the automatic sliders didn't work. I can control the software sliders with the hardware on the studiomix, but the software doesn't control the hardware sliders.
Still, useable for sure. Did you check the link scook supplied at the beginning of this thread? It claims to have the controller installers which were separate from Sonar itself. I have one.
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