sjoens Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 (edited) In the past (CbB?/ SONAR Xx?) it showed up as soon as I set it up in Preferences without closing the program. Is this normal? Edited February 24 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 This is normal but never this long: Care to translate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwalpwal Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (i can't translate but) it looks like the controller is sending the same message repeatedly? or an unrecognised message... does it always look like gibberish in that status area? have you checked the controller with another daw/or factory reset on the controller? what's the controller? shouldn't it say "OK" or "Ready" or something similar sensible, human readable? /goodluck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 (edited) Most of the time this is what it shows. Only once it actually displayed the name of the track it was focused on. Oddly the maker (Nektar) said they've seen the same thing. They also said Cakewalk handles controllers differently than most DAWs so I have no fantasies of it ever working 100% as expected. I've never used it with other DAWs but I might try it with Mixcraft. However, I don't think MC displays things the same way so maybe Cakewalk is asking more of it than it can do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edited February 23 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/21/2025 at 6:05 PM, sjoens said: Most of the time this is what it shows. Only once it actually displayed the name of the track it was focused on. Oddly the maker (Nektar) said they've seen the same thing. They also said Cakewalk handles controllers differently than most DAWs so I have no fantasies of it ever working 100% as expected. I've never used it with other DAWs but I might try it with Mixcraft. However, I don't think MC displays things the same way so maybe Cakewalk is asking more of it than do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This text is set by plug-in, in this case by Nektar. But I have never tried to use it with international characters. So, if you expect ASCII (english) there, it is Nektar bug. If your track names are localized, that can be encoding issue. Whatever I was displaying as status many years, as long as that was in english, it was displayed correctly. -- The only big difference in handling controllers by Cakewalk is that handling is officially documented in public (GitHub). "Most DAWs" hide it, so those who have access to it (f.e. Nektar) can write anything to users, users can't check the claim... At least in DAWs for which handling is known (Ableton, Bitwig, REAPER), the handling is similar. Nektar is controller producer which hide protocols. For Impact there is nothing they can really hide, but for "smart" controllers like Panorama that prevents 3d party developers using controllers. Even for NI controllers (which publish no technical details in public) it is possible to get the documentation. Other companies have it in open or don't prevent RE documentation spread in the Internet. I mean it is not wise accept as trues everything Nektar writes to you. They know you can't check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 (edited) For some reason I can no longer find his response so I can't verify what he said specifically. Majority of characters are square blocks which a font will display when there's no character for it. Otherwise there's an EURO dollar sign and a funky p. Every session is different. Today I get this: Edited February 23 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reginaldStjohn Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I have a Nektar controller (L88+) and I have never had anything intelligible show up in that box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 (edited) Good to know. Todays message: After deselecting "ACT" in the setup window I get this: which is the 1st assignable control in Dimension Pro on track 1. It never changes when track banks are moved, so - useless info. Creating a surface entry for Roland V-100 displays the 1st plugin on track 1 which is Dimension Pro. but includes no WAI indicators for tracks and also never changes, so - useless info. Creating a surface entry for TascamUS-428 or Mackie displays what should be there: track status - useful info. So Nektar is clearly not providing track info or Cakewalk is misinterpreting it as gibberish. Roland owned Cakewalk so not sure why V-100 doesn't communicate as expected. Tascam, Mackie, and maybe others do it right. BTW, none of these others required me to close/reopen CbB to work. OAN, Nektar is programed to think the 1st Bus is the Master bus (Master 1) but I always move it to the far right, so unless I can change that somehow it's also useless. Edited February 24 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 (edited) OP - maybe closing/reopening CbB was only necessary for setting up 1st controller as it hasn't been needed after that. Or maybe just a fluke. Edited February 24 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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