Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "diddywahdiddy1" <550@...> wrote:
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> Soooooo.... the dreaded moment has arrived : I had to change my setup and after reconnecting everything mayhem started. Meaning: the BCR's fucked up.

> I have gone through a lot of hassle and am now stock at #9 of the mentioned description. So, both BCR's have their own ID's, they are both recognized in the audio hardware setup, they are both back in default/factory state.
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> So, what's wrong? BC Manager only sees ID1. I cannot for the love of god get ID2 online. I have tried with MIDI>options but BC manager receives no firmware information and so ID2 stays 'offline'.

> The strangest thing is, that in the main window > options > midi devices, both BCR's are listed and (of course) both activated.

Are you using the most recent version of BC Manager (2.3.1)?
This version has slightly more informative status messages in the MIDI input/output port columns in the B-Controls window than previous versions.

Quoting from the manual:

"For clarity, the name of a disabled MIDI I/O device is no longer prefixed by an asterisk (*), but by `DISABLED ', and the name of an absent MIDI I/O device is no longer written between parentheses, but prefixed by `ABSENT '."

So what do these columns show for your 2nd BCR?
If there's "DISABLED" or "ABSENT" somewhere, the problem has to do with the BCR's USB device:

"DISABLED" can be corrected in the main window's "MIDI devices" dialog box by enabling the MIDI I/O device.

"ABSENT" means that the MIDI I/O device name you've been using in BC Manager is currently invalid. In the "MIDI options" dialog box of the BCR you should select an EXISTING (and enabled!) MIDI I/O device.

And of course the actual BCR's ID# should match the ID# defined in BC Manager (which can also be set in the "MIDI options" dialog box of the BCR).

For further information (in particular possible causes for the "Offline" message), see BC Manager Manual (for vs. 2.3.1), p. 32.

Hope this helps,
Mark.