Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

klorisk wrote:
> A bit of a pain with programming the BCR for MIDI synths is that you
> have to switch between USB Mode 1 for programming and Standalone Mode
> 1 for testing all the time. Every time you switch to Standalone Mode,
> you have to restart the BC Manager 'cause it 'lost the connection' to
> the BCR. Fortunately there's a menu option that restarts the program.

First of all, this "connection loss" is not BC Manager's fault: it's simply a feature of Windows (at least up to and including XP; I don't really know about Vista or 7): as far as I know, a program's MIDI I/O port configuration cannot change while the program is running. In my experience any MIDI software package suffers from this problem.

More importantly: you DON'T have to switch between U/S-modes for programming and testing: you can route the BC's signals to your synth via BC Manager:

1. On the BCF/BCR, select U-3 (or possibly U-2). (U-3 supports both MIDI OUT A and B; U-2 only MIDI OUT A.)

2. Connect your synth (bidirectionally) to the BCF/BCR's MIDI input socket and to the MIDI output socket of your choice (cf. the U-setting chosen above).

3. Start BC Manager. From the main window's menu, open Options->MIDI devices: (Note: in the procedure below, I haven't specified device NAMES, since these vary, depending on the installed USB MIDI driver. But e.g. if you're using a BCR2000 and the Behringer driver vs. 1.2.1.3, you should typically connect "BCR2000[1]" <=> "BCR2000[1]-A".)

(a) On the "Input" tab, select (highlight) the BC's input control device; then enable it (via the checkbox) and set its "Thru output device" to the BC's MIDI output socket of your choice.
Also select and enable the BC's MIDI input socket, and set its "Thru output device" to the BC's output control device.

(b) On the "Output" tab, enable the BC's output control device and the MIDI output socket of your choice. (Their "Thru input device" settings should already have been taken care of by point (a) above.)

Now the BCF/BCR should be able to talk to BC Manager and the synth simultaneously.

You can test the connection from the BCF/BCR to the synth by checking whether BC Manager's MIDI input and output meters respond when you generate MIDI output on the BC or the synth: in the input and output meter windows, the "LEDs" of the connected input and output devices should light up simultaneously.

Good luck!

   Mark.