Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:54:18AM -0000, k5kip_1999 wrote:
> Welcome Steve,
> 
> So did you try the VFX control?

Sorry, I haven't had a chance.  The BCR is still at church, you
see. :-) I've kind of gotten used to leaving it there.  

[My wife and I have three kids, 16, 13, and 7 years old, all in
various activities, so time is a precious commodity for me.  For
instance, I've had Logic Studio, with all it's wonderful software
instruments, since christmas, and haven't even hooked up a keyboard to
it yet.  So, don't expect *too* much progress from me in a short
time.]

In fact, with all my equipment, I've rarely used midi to connect to a
computer.  I use it extensively to control the JV-1080 with the VFX,
though.

> ...
> I also, need to write some kind of thing that will set the .txinterval
> back to 2.
> You can do it manually tho and the VFX really needs to have it on 100 to
> work with out lots of midi sysex errors.

It's funny; when it was new, the VFX was one of few synths that could
usually take patch dumps at full speed w/o pauses in the stream.  But
I'm sure this is using different sysex messages than the bulk dump
would.

> > I've been mostly using it for remote control of a Panasonic DA7
> > digital mixer at church.  
> 
> That's a good use.

And you might be surprised how far MIDI can travel under adverse
conditions, specs be damned!

I used two mic cords and four MIDI DIN5 connectors to make adapter
cables, and I send MIDI from the BCR through in-wall XLR mic
connections back to the sound desk, where I convert back from XLR to
midi DIN5 and connect to the mixer.  So in essence it's going through
a snake.

99% of my usage is one button that mutes the mains while we're not
playing. :-)

Thanks for the info about mackie emulation.

> OR - write your own cross platform display for pc/mac and Linux. Sounds
> like you might be able to do this.
> I wanted to do something like this and had considered Java to accomplish
> it. I wanted to make something free for all to use. The LCD emulation,
> basically, is parsing midi sysex coming out of the daw software.
> However, I don't have the programming skills to accomplish this task.
> I do have the source code for Huskervu, done in C#..

I might have the skills, but I probably lack the time.  By the time I
got my Amiga sys-ex librarian for the VFX truly finished, the amiga
had pretty much become a moot platform. :-(  Part of the problem is I
don't do user interface coding much, so it takes me a while when I
have to do it.

> I'd like to know if the my vfx preset works with the SD and what changes
> would need to be made to make it work better with the sd?
> Or do we need separate preset.
> Btw - y0u can load the .bc2 files into bcmanager now.

I'll let you know once I find out.  I do know the VFX went through a
few iterations of reving the sys-ex protocol to make it (more)
compatible with the VFX-SD.  So, with any luck, it may just work.

> 
> > JV-1080, Alesis D4, DrumKat EZ, Oberheim Drummer, Behringer DDX3216,
> > M-audio Oxygen8 (1st version).
> 
> DrumKat (you a drummer?)

If I can claim to be a keyboard player, I can claim to be a drummer,
too.  Not all that great at either of them, but I enjoy myself, and
I'm better than "nothing".

> I bet you can do remote editors for
> the drumKat, Oberheim Drummer, and the JV-1080 (as Royce said) as well s
> the D4.

DrumKat EZ would be really hard w/o more of a display for feedback
(but perhaps you could get the DK EZ's on-board display to help); it's
mostly what note number(s) each pad sends, how many they send, layered
or cross faded, etc.  And it's the EZ version, which was between the
DK10 (low end) and the DrumKat.  When they thinned down the product
line, the EZ was canned.  I don't think there's many out there, so
it's unlikely anyone else would benefit.  I've also not found the need
to stray too far from the built-in presets for the D4.

Oberheim drummer?  Not sure, but I only use it as a fancy metronome,
anyway.

D4?  Well, it at least has volume and pan for each drum.  So, maybe.

JV-1080 would of course be the golden opportunity on the list,
especially since you've done the VFX already. :-) One of the freebie
sys-ex editors for the JV (the one called ChangeIt!, I think) had a
sub-section that sent a patch that was set up similar to a mini-moog,
and then let you tweak the knobs on screen.  That might be a good
start.

Anyway, thanks for the input.

--> Steve

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