Well, your test WORKED!!
Still nothing in the computer though. I have tried the auto-MIDI-input detection in both REAPER and eDrum MIDI Mapper and neither seems to be receiving anything.
Since I started this thread I have reinstalled Windows (7), I've tried the interface in different USB ports (both on and off my powered hub), and as I said in the first post - I bought another MIDI interface because that's what I thought had broken. I run REAPER in portable mode and so have tried a new install in a separate directory, just in case my preferences had messed something up, but still no MIDI seems to be making it into the computer.
I do have another MIDI interface. It's a 256 channel Yamaha from about a thousand years ago. It seems to work fine with the MIDI out, going into the computer. I only have one MIDI cable available to test with, but it looks like my BCR is NOT broken!! :-)
So now I guess I have two possibly-broken MIDI interfaces. I don't know if the first one broke and the second was faulty, or if some funky Windows update made both of them stop working. What I do know is that I need to get a new USB cable (I had to borrow one from another device to test the Yamaha) and a pair of MIDI cables.
Thanks again Mark, for sticking with it... I probably would have thrown the BCR away! :-)
I'll report back once I get new cables.
Cheers!!
To: bc2000@yahoogroups.com
From: markwinvdb@...
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:38:06 +0000
Subject: [bc2000] Re: BCR2000 no longer sending MIDI?
From: markwinvdb@...
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:38:06 +0000
Subject: [bc2000] Re: BCR2000 no longer sending MIDI?
--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, dave watkinson wrote:
> Looks like it's time to replace it :'-(
In any case it seems that the USB controller on your BCR is defective.
This isn't unheard of: it has happened to other people, including me!
However, what I've never heard before is that ADDITIONALLY the BCR's standard MIDI connections no longer seem to work properly either.
I've reread your earlier posts: if I understand you correctly, in S-3/4 your BCR's I/O LEDs do blink, but your MIDI interface doesn't (seem to) register anything coming out of the BCR.
As a final test of the state of your BCR's MIDI I/O handling, you might try to make the BCR send a Program Change (PC) message to itself, to which it should respond by changing to a different preset:
Switch off the BCR, disconnect all cables except the power cable, and connect a MIDI cable from MIDI OUT A to MIDI IN. (Of course you should be absolutely sure that this MIDI cable itself is OK!)
Then, while holding the STORE and EXIT buttons, switch the BCR on by pressing the POWER button and keep STORE and EXIT pressed until the display has gone from "1.10" via "Init" to "P- 1" (or any other preset number).
Then go to "EG" (Global Setup) by holding EDIT and pressing STORE.
Make the following settings:
Push encoder 1: S-4.
Push encoder 2: Ch 1.
Press EXIT.
Then hold EDIT and press the button immediately below push encoder 1: the display should show "b 33".
Make the following settings:
Push encoder 1: PC
Push encoder 2: Ch 1 (this should be the default, actually)
Push encoder 3 and 4: off (=defaults)
Push encoder 5: any number from 0-31 EXCEPT the number of the current preset minus one; so if you're in preset 1 ("P- 1"), the value entered here can be 1-31 (indicating presets 2-32), but not 0 (because that stands for preset 1 itself). Perhaps the easiest value to enter is the current preset number ITSELF, because that amounts to the next preset; so if you're in "P- 1", I recommend selecting "1" here, which indicates a jump to preset 2.
Push encoder 6: toff (=default)
Press EXIT.
Press STORE twice.
Then comes the moment of truth:
Press the button immediately below push encoder 1 (button 33):
The MIDI IN, A and B LEDs should all flash and the display should switch to the preset defined in the button's PC message, so e.g. from "P- 1" to "P- 2".
If this doesn't work as described above, there is indeed a fault in your BCR's MIDI I/O hardware, and it seems indeed time for a replacement.
If this does work, we can discuss further.
Good luck!
Mark.
> Looks like it's time to replace it :'-(
In any case it seems that the USB controller on your BCR is defective.
This isn't unheard of: it has happened to other people, including me!
However, what I've never heard before is that ADDITIONALLY the BCR's standard MIDI connections no longer seem to work properly either.
I've reread your earlier posts: if I understand you correctly, in S-3/4 your BCR's I/O LEDs do blink, but your MIDI interface doesn't (seem to) register anything coming out of the BCR.
As a final test of the state of your BCR's MIDI I/O handling, you might try to make the BCR send a Program Change (PC) message to itself, to which it should respond by changing to a different preset:
Switch off the BCR, disconnect all cables except the power cable, and connect a MIDI cable from MIDI OUT A to MIDI IN. (Of course you should be absolutely sure that this MIDI cable itself is OK!)
Then, while holding the STORE and EXIT buttons, switch the BCR on by pressing the POWER button and keep STORE and EXIT pressed until the display has gone from "1.10" via "Init" to "P- 1" (or any other preset number).
Then go to "EG" (Global Setup) by holding EDIT and pressing STORE.
Make the following settings:
Push encoder 1: S-4.
Push encoder 2: Ch 1.
Press EXIT.
Then hold EDIT and press the button immediately below push encoder 1: the display should show "b 33".
Make the following settings:
Push encoder 1: PC
Push encoder 2: Ch 1 (this should be the default, actually)
Push encoder 3 and 4: off (=defaults)
Push encoder 5: any number from 0-31 EXCEPT the number of the current preset minus one; so if you're in preset 1 ("P- 1"), the value entered here can be 1-31 (indicating presets 2-32), but not 0 (because that stands for preset 1 itself). Perhaps the easiest value to enter is the current preset number ITSELF, because that amounts to the next preset; so if you're in "P- 1", I recommend selecting "1" here, which indicates a jump to preset 2.
Push encoder 6: toff (=default)
Press EXIT.
Press STORE twice.
Then comes the moment of truth:
Press the button immediately below push encoder 1 (button 33):
The MIDI IN, A and B LEDs should all flash and the display should switch to the preset defined in the button's PC message, so e.g. from "P- 1" to "P- 2".
If this doesn't work as described above, there is indeed a fault in your BCR's MIDI I/O hardware, and it seems indeed time for a replacement.
If this does work, we can discuss further.
Good luck!
Mark.