Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "mosquito710" <mosquito710@...> wrote:
> My wife and I just got a BCN44 last week and had the same problem. Luckily it only occurred on a keyboard we were borrowing temporarily, and was completely fixed by switching to another keyboard. 
> 
> This probably doesn't tell you anything you don't already know

Actually it tells me a lot:
It virtually proves that electron8000's individual BCN44 isn't defective.

I've looked at the MIDI specs of your Yamaha P-95: like electron8000's PSR310, it sends Timing Clock (F8) and Active Sensing (FE) messages, so I'm standing by my suspicion that these Yamaha keyboards send F8 and/or FE "within" channel messages such as Note On/Off.
But I'm still not sure how I could prove this hypothesis, since Windows doesn't (easily) allow mimicking this behavior. Maybe I'd have to resort to my old DOS machine with an old Roland MPU interface...
In any case it seems very unlikely that the problem as such can be fixed: the BCN's firmware would have to be reprogrammed.
So the only "fix" seems to be your solution: use a different master keyboard.

> Another thing I noticed is that the Casio is labeled as being "General MIDI" compliant. I don't really know a lot about MIDI messages, but from what I understand that means it complies to a standardized specification. So that could have something to do with why it interfaces properly with the BCN44.

"General MIDI" is very limited: it assigns standard meanings to particular Program Change messages, i.e. it specifies which type of sound a receiving synth/sound module should produce upon reception of a particular Program Change message.
So I can't see how this could affect the BCN44.

Thanks!
Mark.