Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, Dave Watkinson <dave422x@...> wrote:
> On tons of YouTube videos I see the guys with their BCFs switch between 
> presets and the faders jump to whatever preset positions the user has 
> pre arranged. When I do something like this on my BCR the knobs just 
> stay wherever they were the last time I used that preset.
> 
> I know this has been asked before in different words, and so basically 
> I'd like to know if is this a difference between the BCF and the BCR? 
> The BCF can reload a preset's settings without a hard reboot whereas the 
> BCR can't?

As far as I know, there is no difference between the BCF (at least in standard B-Control mode) and the BCR in this respect: as long as you don't switch the BCF/BCR off or redefine a preset, switching to a preset restores all button/encoders/faders to the positions that were active when you last left that preset.
(This can be a good thing: it allows you to use different presets as one "super-preset", so the BCF/BCR can (for instance) easily control a 16-channel mixer via 2 adjacent presets.)

However, when the BCF is in one of its Mackie emulation modes, it doesn't use its presets at all, but is just a slave of the software on the computer (via the Mackie protocol). So it then depends on the software what happens. Maybe this is what you see in those YouTube videos?

To make a BCF/BCR preset return to its default settings every time you select it, you'd have to include a notification message (e.g. a Program Change message) in the preset's "LEARN output", and the receiving software would then have to send all the preset's individual values to the BCF/BCR. Rather tricky (for various reasons).
I don't think there's a general solution, but maybe I'm missing something.

Hope this helps,
Mark.