With the FCB, there is a great Yahoo group with a few programmers who actually made some great improvements, as in this group, too. It's only because of these folks that I haven't given up on Behringer products entirely and the fact that the bang-for-the-buck is usually unbeatable, despite product support shortcomings - and an optimism that I can somehow make it work for my needs. But the learning curve for some of these products is very intense. I'm not a programmer either, but I am an electronics technician and a technical writer. I document network appliances for specialized internet servers and think that I can read and understand technical information, but I would like to see LOT more application examples for these products.
But it is extremely obvious that these products could be SO MUCH MORE than Behringer allows if only a little more software support were forthcoming from the manufacturer and the interfaced device and software - which should be in everyone's interest.
The DDX for example is such a killer mixer, and if Behringer would only devote a programmer to interfacing it (and the BCx2000 line as well) to recording software, they would be the obvious choice for anyone getting started in DAW or MIDI control. What a waste of good products on a lack of simple software interfacing. They don't even need to write tons of code, simple make better interfaces from existing products. The software companies should be cooperating with Behringer too, but apparently Behringer isn't lobbying them to do so.
I could rag on this one for hours.
Steve M
Some of these companies have amazingly short sighted business plans and activities.
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