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Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in

The Cakewalk Generic Surface Plug-in supports both ACT and WAI. See The WAI display, and ACT for more information.

After you have connected your controller/surface (including loading the correct memory preset in your controller/surface’s memory), and selected the Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in in Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Control Surfaces (see Setting up control surfaces if necessary), open the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page.

To open the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page

1.

In the Control Bar’s ACT module, make sure that Cakewalk Generic Surface appears in the drop-down menu. If Cakewalk Generic Surface is not available in the drop-down menu, see Setting up control surfaces.

2.

Click the Open Control Surface Plug-in button in the ACT module. You can also double-click the WAI display of the Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in.

See:

Loading Cakewalk Generic Surface presets

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