Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "dsseit_9dgx" <dsseit_9dgx@...> wrote:
> First, My unit's display says 1.0.4 when I switch it on so I guess
> that's the firmware version.

Yes.

By the way: your unit must be pretty old indeed! I bought mine about 2
years ago, and it already had 1.10, and at the Behringer website even
at that time only 1.07 and 1.10 were available.

> I've found a sysex file which says
> firmware 1.1.0. Is this the latest firmware? What are its advantages
> over 1.0.4?

I know basically nothing about 1.04. When I wrote the "BC MIDI
Implementation.pdf" document, I never even analyzed 1.07 - as you can
imagine, I had my hands full with 1.10.
But I think the Behringer site mentions the advantages of 1.10 over
1.07, and perhaps the "new" features of 1.07, so that might give you a
clue.

In any case it's highly recommendable to upgrade to 1.10 as soon as
possible.

> Do I really install it by just uploading it to the unit
> with SysEx Librarian (I'm on OS X)?

Yes. A one-way dump by means of any SysEx-sending utility should work
fine. (BC Manager employs a 2-way, handshake protocol for firmware
uploading, which works a bit smoother, but handshaking is not essential.)

By the way: you should probably avoid using Behringer's own firmware
upload utility: in my experience it doesn't work (at least not under
Windows). (Is it even available for the Mac?)

> Can I damage my unit by doing something wrong?

No. The worst that can happen is that the process is somehow
interrupted, in which case the BCR will say "noOS" when you switch it
on again. So you simply have to redo the whole upload procedure then.
(You might then also look at "BC MIDI Implementation.pdf", which has
some material on "bootloader" mode, including "noOS".)

> Also, I've read somewhere that you can enable the four top right
> buttons as midi controllers instead of using them for switching top
> encoder banks. How do I do this with no editor available for OS X and
> no possibility to do it on the hardware directly?

I have no idea. (In BC Manager it's a piece of cake...)
In any case the operation mode for the "Encoder groups" buttons is
included in each preset definition, so if you can send such a preset
(in a Syx file) to the BCR, this operation mode should work as defined
on your BCR.

> What firmware is required for this to work?

I have no idea whether the this already works under your 1.04 (if I
had to guess, I'd say yes, but I may be dead wrong). I seem to
remember that it does work on 1.07, but to be sure you should simply
upgrade to 1.10.

Mark.