AZSlow

Hi Alexey

Does AZ Controller have any way to change any colour attribute of a bus strip in the console view?
I mean the whole colour of the strip or the colour of a knob?

Or if not colour then the choice of strip icon?

I have a switchable custom function for buses (switched by incoming MIDI CC to AZ) and I want it to really stand out when it is selected.

All ideas would be welcome!

Regards
Robert

Hi Alexey

Mark has added the fix to get the surface API to report the correct track send names.

It will be a Sonar fix so I'll check out the free trial version of Sonar when it appears.

Best regards
Robert

I have tried to explain why I can NOT use strips and HW names to find correct sends and outputs.

If you want changed is labels, you should ask CW.

I will say that is not a modification, it is fixing a bug. Obviously Cakewalk should show (and report to surface API) correct target names (including S/L/R suffix). In current version it doesn't even show the suffix for sends (in the selection nor in the inspector), so I guess the bug is not (or not only) in surface API related part.

But if the codebase is fixed, the only hope is the next version of "Sonar". Note that I probably will not get it (I am not ready to pay for it...).

Hi Robert,

Yes, I display whatever Cakewalk returns.

Note that for me in current version Cakewalk is "buggy" by itself with sends. Even so it allows me to select "L", "R" or "S" initially, it display it without these characters. If I try to change the send, it also no longer display "L" "R" "S" in the list, even so there are still 3 items in the menu per stereo output.

Hi Robert,

API has GetMixParamValue() and GetMixParamValueText() methods. The first returns numeric value and the second corresponding text. So for sends and outputs I can get the "value" and then ask for its meaning. For reasons you probably remember, I and Cakewalk tries to cash both as far as that make sense (especially in AZ Controller it can happened you need the same value or text several times within one monitoring loop, f.e. to check the value/text is changed and later to send it to your device). If cashing is implemented incorrectly, corresponding value or text is not updated. Obviously that can be wrong on both sides, so I periodically "guess" the problem is in Cakewalk and Mark guess it is in AZ Controller. In worse case it can be on both sides

I just get "the text", I can't guess it is about mono or stereo. Cakewalk API (I guess for historical reasons) expose the number in the "whole list" of targets, including stereo/mono/different types of targets. BTW it also does the same for MIDI, including in project persistence, I guess that "feature" is responsible for many strange MIDI routing bugs in Cakewalk history. So nothing can be done on my side.

I am slowly updating all strip names, with different API methods. So I can detect when something is renamed, even without "topology is changed" flag. Obviously that works in case Cakewalk flash the cash correctly (that is why "bus names" in the test preset was not updating before recent fix from Cakewalk). But I can't use that information to update Output nor Send, because I can't guess which "value" correspond to which strip (sends/outputs can be to buses, hardware outputs, auxes and side chain plug-in inputs, I have no direct info about the number of last 2; also the target can't be the strip itself (in case of buses), so there are some "skips"; the list of strips exposed to surface can be different from real (strips "visibility"); there is no way to get UID for target,
unlike f.e. in REAPER).