Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "poser_p" <poserp@...> wrote:
> Now I'm just getting greedy -- it would be tres cool if:

> 1.) You could assign all of the buttons to a MIDI channel.

You mean in BC Manager? If I understand your intention correctly,
that's already possible via the "Edit" -> "Set"  -> "Channel" menu
command in the button list window. (See the manual for further
explanation.)

> 2.) You select a button and press "Learn".
> 3.) You transmit some midi/sysex on that channel.
> 4.) You press "Learn" again. Now the data is stored for that button.

I think that on the BCF/BCR themselves this is already possible
(although I haven't tried it myself), as explained in par. 4.3.1 of
the B-Control manual (vs. 1.1, Oct. 2004).

However, if you want to do this from BC Manager... If I understand you
correctly, this is conceptually not too different from the method via
the "MIDI input messages" window I've just implemented, unless you
find that too indirect.

In fact, after first reading about your problem, I racked my brains
for several days about the best way to implement this kind of learn
function. I considered adding "Record" and "Stop" buttons to the
button/encoder/fader dialog's "custom output" tab for direct input,
but finally I chose the more modular approach via the MIDI input
message window: one advantage of that window is that it already has
facilities for filtering out unwanted types of messages and selecting
recorded messages.

Mark.