Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "oversampler" <nice1ruari@...> wrote:
> The Edit/Store/Exit/Learn buttons don't always do what they should when I press them, it can sometimes be difficult to enter Global Setup by holding Edit then pressing Store - the Edit button doesn't light up when pressed & sometimes the Learn button will light up as I press Store. Occasionally the display will show PANc
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> Pressing Edit & turning any knob or pressing any button isn't taking me to any kind of edit mode.
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> Pressing Learn & turning a knob sometimes takes me into Global Setup (the Edit & Store buttons light up when it does)
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> The preset right button works ok, the left one is intermittent - usually I'm having to press the right one & turn encoder 1 to get back down the presets. Both of the buttons seem to function normally if I press store then try to select a destination preset.

I'm not completely sure, but all this does suggest to me there's indeed a hardware problem, maybe with one or more (sticky?) buttons.

However, you should be aware that a BCR preset may redefine the "special buttons" ("EDIT" etc.) as "normal" buttons, so then they don't perform their special functions.
From what you're saying, it doesn't seem like this is the case in your situation, but you can try this to make absolutely sure:
hold STORE and EXIT while switching the BCR on (i.e. by pressing POWER): this should lead to "Init" in the display briefly and a completely neutral/empty preset. (Of course this presupposes that the STORE and EXIT buttons do work...!)
See "BC MIDI Implementation.pdf", sections 22 and 23 for more tricks like this.

> The LEDs around the knobs seem to light up in sympathy when other knobs in that row are being turned, with all the knobs in a row on a different setting all the knobs have a halo of lit LEDs surrounding them. When I have been trying to set these LEDs up I've always been going for the 1d option.

You might try BC Manager's "Test hardware" routine, a kind of light show to test the LEDs.

> I tried re-installing the firmware 1.10 to see if that would help but it hasn't made any difference.

No, that can never help:
If the display shows "1.10" during startup, the firmware is guaranteed to be completely OK, because the BCR checks the checksum of the firmware: if there's any error, you get "noOS".

Hope this helps,
Mark.