ForewordBeing lazy and having to switch very often between the original driver and the AZslow driver, I simply switched between the 2 by assigning 2 dummy In/Out ports to the one I didn't want to use (eg QuadCapture ports), and the 2 real ports on the driver I wanted to use (eg FW1884 Control port).
It kind of worked, but unfortunately not completely.
Trying to work with the pan, the strange behavior I encountered disappeared when I deleted One driver in the select control surface of Sonar and kept only the one I was testing.
That's very unfortunate, it means I have to add/remove/reconfig control surface/driver each time, which is a pain. In the case of AZslow, I have to reselect the preset each time as it doesn't seem to recall the last preset it used when not deleted. I wonder if you can save somewhere the last preset name somewhere, and recall it automatically when an AZslow control surface is readded in Sonar.
- WAI works for tracks almost perfectly.
One exception: When one goes back one bank down and there is less than 8 tracks available: it should still select tracks 1 to 8. Instead, it does nothing.
I did the exact scenario page 5 of fw1884_sonar_note_1_00.pdf
• Pressing BANK R once controls SONAR channels 9
through 16
• Holding SHIFT and pressing BANK R four times
controls SONAR channels 13 through 20
• Pressing BANK L once controls SONAR channels 5
through 12
•
Pressing BANK L again controls SONAR channels 1
through 8Last step does not happen, Azslow stay at tracks 5 through 12
- Also, the WAI extends only to the track. If you have take lanes or automation lanes on a track, the green bar doesn't extend to those. It seems to me it would be logical to extend to whatever is linked to the track, such as track / automation lanes when available. What do you think ?
- WAI for Master fader works
- "Rec" (near encoders) + "Sel" buttons does toggle record arming.
It is the REC that is on the EQ area, not the transport area.
- "Shift+Sel" and "Ctrl+Sel" reset Volume/Pan. However, note that the volume fader instantly jumps back to where it was. With the original driver, this doesn't happen, it stays at unity.
- Note: With the original driver, under the controller name on the top bar of Sonar, instead of 'active', one can see the tracks under supervision, as well as the master fader, such as Tracks 9-17 - Master 4. This is something you may want to implement sometimes. You can even improve it with "T a-b M c" as there isn't enough room to read all string. in the last example, one can only read "Tracks 1 - 8 Mast..." and one has to mouse over to read the full "Tracks 1 - 8 Master 4"