Sonar - X-Touch and SSL UC-1 - Work Great Together

[Tom Bednarz]

Hi All,

I thought I'd share some fun news. BTW - I'm not a SSL or Behringer employee or fanboy. Just a gear *****.

I've had an X-Touch and Extender for a few years. Although it works great for transport, faders, mute, solo and record, it was always a little frustrating controlling plugin effects.

So I recently added a SSL UC-1 to control plugin effects and it works great, and also plays nice with the X-Touch. Which is ideal right now since the budget is a little tight to add a SSL UF-8 and UF-1.

Once the UC-1 is setup in SSL 360 (choose MIDI  CC as a DAW), as an MCU controller in Sonar, and set to the proper SSL MIDI port you can use it to control supported SSL vst3 plugins directly. They're already pre-mapped.

Any third party plugins can be controlled (e.g., UAD SSL E Channel Strip out of the box) or mapped using the SSL 360 vst3 plugin.

So now I have 16 physical faders and finally a "frustration-free" physical plugin effects controller. 

The goal is to learn to mix with my ears again and not my eyes - mouse-free!

So far, so cool.

Just thought I'd share.

Reply with any questions.