Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, rpcfender@... wrote:

> Use the 'Custom Output' instead of the 'Standard Output' and put in two lines for each synth parameter..
> For example
>
> B8 62 6E
> B8 06 val

I ended up doing something like this...  I setup one knob with custom 
output to send as its "value" the LSB part of the NRPN MSB/LSB pair. 
(The MSB was hardcoded as zero since it's not used.)  So the knob would 
emit: B8 63 00 B8 62 val

I setup the knob's speed in BC Manager to be 20 values per rotation to 
slow it down, since this NRPN is the part the ESQ chokes on.  (A big 
part of the reason is because the ESQ-1 insists on updating its display 
to actually show the parameter being selected when it receives the NRPN, 
so if it gets too many of them at a time, it gets way behind trying to 
keep the display updated and crashes.)  At 20 values per turn, it 
becomes harder to scroll through the parameters faster than the ESQ-1 
can keep up.  It would still have been nicer if the BCR had been capable 
of setting up one of its top row push encoders to let you select a value 
without transmitting it and then push to actually send it, but 
unfortunately they can't be made to work that way.  That way, you could 
choose a parameter from the BCR's own LED but not have to actually 
transmit Midi during the whole scrolling process...oh well.

Anyway, that took care of the actual NRPN MSB/LSB pair.  So I setup a 
second knob to simply trasmit vanilla data entry slider CC#6, which was 
the easy part, and the ESQ-1 can take that as fast as you can send it.

Between the two knobs, it's workable, though at this point, the only 
advantage you're getting out of the whole thing is the convenience that 
it's remote.  I mean really, rather than laying all your parameters out 
across a knob controller like an old analog with knob-per-function, what 
you've got here is basically a data entry slider setup where one knob 
selects function and the other adjusts its value.  This seems to be the 
best that can be done with the limitations of the ESQ-1 and the BCR2000 
though.

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