Petersueco wrote:That message, i believe, is a sign that your MIDI channels settings in the d8bridge configuration panel are wrong or that your MIDI ports have been messed up somehow, and you are using different ports.
Just guessing here, because I'm not familiar with Sonar. Maybe Sonar's new GUI is not working properly. Does the channels get actually selected even if there is not any visual sign of it on Sonars GUI?
Hi Peter,
I could experiment with swapping around MIDI channels, but somehow I don't think that's the problem. I think if the MIDI channels were incorrect, nothing would be working (I've been there before). What's working now are the faders, MUTE, SOLO, PAN, REC, JOG/SHUTTLE, PLAY, STOP, FAST FWD, REWIND, LED meters and time code. I'd think lots of that stuff would be messed up if it were a problem with the MIDI channels. I can't really explain the VFD lower line message given how much of the D8Bridge functionality is working properly. I'll try noodling with the MIDI ports later to see i I get some success.
When I click the SELECT button on a channel, the VFD top line momentarily displays the track name from Sonar, so it seems the VFD text part of the d8b/D8Bridge comms are working for SELECT. I don't have any way to sniff the serial line to see what's going back and forth and I have no insight into what I should see.
I'm almost certain that in a previous version of Sonar, version 8.5.3 Producer, that the SELECT buttons on the d8b highlighted the corresponding tracks on the Sonar GUI. I'm inclined to agree with your analysis that maybe Sonar's new MCU implementation might not be fully functional, i.e., for the SELECT button. I haven't been able to get confirmation of this problem from other Sonar X2 users yet.
Thanks very much for your continued interest and support.