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Re: BC-Manager 2.0.1 Too many BCL lines error when trying to save.

2009-07-19 by k5kip_1999

Thanks Mark!


--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Mark van den Berg" <markwinvdb@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "k5kip_1999" <k5kip_1999@> wrote:
> > I just downloaded the mackie preset made by matchs, I copy it to my bank of presets and when I try to save it I get a MIDI error log of 
> > "Error:Too many BCL lines"
> 
> > Is there any chance that you can increase the total BCL lines size so I don't hit the wall?
> 
> The BCR2000 imposes a limit of 16384 BCL messages per "chain" (i.e. any sequence of related SysEx-BCL messages), because each SysEx-BCL message contains a 14-bit BCL chain index, running from 0 to 16383.
> 
> However, BC Manager allows you to work around this limit in several ways:
> 
> 1. Save your presets to a txt (or bc2) file rather than to a syx file. (Select txt/bc2 via the B-Controls window's "Save As" operation in the "Save as type" box.)
> 
> 2. If you want to SEND all those presets to the BCR2000 itself, send them in groups, e.g. first send presets 1-16, then 17-32.
> 
> A more fundamental solution might be to have BC Manager treat every individual preset as a separate chain, when saving to a syx file or sending to the BCR itself.
> However, I'm not sure whether the resulting syx file would be "valid", i.e. compatible with Behringer's own BC-Edit. (Assuming for a moment that anyone still cares about BC-Edit!)
> In any case Behringer's own syx files (e.g. bcr_FACTORY_PRESETS.syx) treat all presets as a single chain.
> I'll think about it...
> 
> Mark.
>

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