Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "oversampler" <nice1ruari@...> wrote:
> I've tried using wine to run BC Manager - I got the app running but it wouldn't recognise the BCR2000, I tried a few different things but it was a non starter.

I hardly know Wine, but the message in the archive mentioned by Steve suggests that it is possible.

In any case: if BC Manager doesn't recognize the BCR, this can only mean that there is no (USB-based) MIDI I/O driver for the BCR installed under Wine. Like any other MIDI application, BC Manager can only use whatever MIDI I/O drivers Windows (or Wine) provides.

From experience I do know that it is possible to connect a BCR to BC Manager within a Windows guest OS under VirtualBox - at least on a Windows host, but my understanding is that this should also work on a Mac OSX host.
(I think several people have reported that BC Manager can also be run via Parallels on OSX. Does this work in a similar way as VirtualBox?)

Of course setting up a full Windows guest OS involves a bit more work than using Wine.
For starters, you of course have to install Windows (from an installation disc or iso file).
Then, to make the BCR available to the guest OS, you have to instruct VirtualBox to install its generic "pass-through" USB driver on the host; this driver passes on the USB signals from/to the actual BCR to/from the guest OS.
Finally, within the guest OS you must install the USB driver for the BCR (see Behringer's BCR webpage), just as you would under a "normal" Windows OS.
In my experience, to get this working is always a messy process, involving rebooting the guest OS, switching the BCR off and on etc., until finally it somehow works.

Hope this helps,
Mark.