Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "oversampler" <nice1ruari@...> wrote:
> When I tried holding Store & Exit on start up I did briefly see Init in the display, but, I still couldn't use the Edit or Learn buttons  to programme or edit any knobs or buttons. I would still get the kind of problems I listed in my first post.

To me this strongly suggests that these buttons (or the hardware controlling them) are defective.

> Now I've managed to connect it up to this laptop with BC Manager I think I might be able to start getting somewhere with it - I ran the Hardware test & all the leds & buttons were flashing away so I don't know if that means I've possibly got a sticky button problem or something may have been spilled on the unit before I got it.

In BC Manager's "Test hardware" mode you can also press buttons (and rotate knobs) manually (you don't even have to press "Start").
E.g. pressing any button should toggle the LEDs of ALL the buttons. This way you may be able to find out which buttons exactly are defective.

> After I ran the hardware test I tried to see what, if anything, was programmed onto the Edit buttons.

In which preset?
Remember that you should synchronize BC Manager's "temporary" (current) preset (also called "preset 0") with the BCR's temporary preset - one way or the other, literally!

> The BCR Layout view of BC Manager just has those buttons pinked out, if I double click on them the new window that opens doesn't give any info on what they are trying to do when I press them - so I'm thinking that perhaps the buttons are still programmed to their defaults but for some reason just aren't sending the correct signals when pressed, either due to spillage or something else occurring in it's past life.

Pink means that these buttons are being used as "special" keys (Edit, Store etc.). In this situation these buttons never send out any MIDI data: they just perform actions locally on the BCR.

The color changes to "normal" when you change the preset's "Function of function/preset keys" on the Settings tab in the Preset dialog box: then these buttons become "ordinary" (assignable) buttons.
(And again: don't forget to synchronize the BCR itself to any changes you make.)

Hope this helps,
Mark.