Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "cubasesix" <cubasesix@...> wrote:
> Re: your MIDI Tools vs BC Manager vx. BCFview - can you tell me advantages of either of them over each other and vs BCFview?

There are 2 types of Mackie display messages:

1. Display messages sent by a computer program (Reason, Sonar, etc.) TO the Mackie (or in our case: a BCF2000 or BCR2000, in whatever mode).
These messages can be intercepted and shown by Huskervu, MIDI Tools or BC Manager.

2. Display messages sent by a BCF2000 in a Mackie emulation mode TO the computer program.
These messages can be intercepted by BCFview or BC Manager.

For more explanation, see BC Manager Manual (vs. 2.3.2), pp. 26-27 and 39.
As stated on p. 39, for a BCF in Mackie mode it's probably better to capture the second type of message, so you'd use BCFView or BC Manager rather than Huskervu or MIDI Tools.

I can't remember right now whether there are any differences between BCFview and BC Manager's BCFview-like feature.
In any case BC Manager offers a host of other tools for the BCF/BCR, although most of these concern "standard B-Control" mode.

> Any/all of the three OK with XP SP2?

MIDI Tools and BC Manager: definitely yes. (Also with Vista and 7, both 32 and 64 bit.)

BCFview: I think this was developed during the XP era, so it should definitely work under XP+SP2. I'm not totally sure whether it works under Vista/7, particularly 64-bit.

Hope this helps,
Mark.