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The joystick will grab the current pan position/sphere anytime you pull the trigger button (the "firing"
button under your index finger). When recording automation, you write new automation every time you
pull the trigger button.
Various joystick buttons can be used to:
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Control SONAR's transport
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Switch focus to adjacent tracks/sends
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Solo/unsolo current channel
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Open/close the large surround panner window
To Connect the Joystick to SONAR Producer
1.
Use the Options-Control Surfaces command.
2.
In the Control Surfaces dialog, click the Add button
Surfaces field of the Control Surface Settings dialog; click OK.
3.
Close the Control Surfaces dialog, and display the Control Surfaces toolbar (View-Toolbars-
Control Surfaces command).
4.
On the left side of the toolbar, choose Joystick Panner in the dropdown menu, and then click the
Properties button
5.
In the Joystick Panner dialog, select button 1 in the Buttons field, and then select Engage Pan
Mode in the Button Actions field.
6.
Now select Button 2, and select Engage Pan Nav Mode in the Button Actions field.
7.
Select any other buttons your joystick has (one at a time), and connect them to any transport or
menu commands you want in the Button Actions field; close the Joystick Panner dialog.
Now when you hold down button 1 (the "trigger button"), the joystick controls the surround panner on
the current track or send. When the pan/sphere is in the desired position, let button 1 up to hold the
position. When you hold down button 2, move the joystick vertically to change the current track, and
horizontally to change to a different send control. The window on the right side of the Control Surfaces
toolbar displays the names of the current track and send. Use any other buttons you configured to
control other SONAR Producer functions.
You can save your button assignments as a preset by typing a name for the current group of settings in
the Presets window in the Joystick Panner dialog, and then clicking the floppy disk icon that's next to
the Presets window. Whenever you want to load a preset, just select it in the Presets window.
that's on the right side of the toolbar.
, and choose Joystick Panner in the Control
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