Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hey Pat!

Thanks for quick response. I realized that when I tried that sysex code I didn’t switch it from “U-3” mode to the usual “S-3” I do my testing with the JD-Xi with. I did give that quick shot today though and sadly it didn’t work still. No lights. No output on the encoder.

I decided to take a look into BC Manager a bit more because I do not think this is a sysex issue. I have been usually entering this sysex data into BC Manager by opening up the “BCR:2000 Layout” page and entering the sysex into a Custom Output from a selected encoder that I want the sysex to be assaigned to. I decided to look a bit deeper into BC Manager though and checkout (as the BC Manager manual calls it) “The Elements Window”. It shows me not just the sysex code I’ve entered on the encoder I’ve chosen (aswell all of the other controls on the BCR), it also allows me to adjust how the LEDs work, the resolutions of the encoders and much more.

I’ve found from working on the Elements Window, the resolution colum gives an error after entering the custom output for the JD-Xi sysex, as well as having the status of the LEDs turned off for the given encoder that that sysex was assaigned to. To remedy this I changed the resolution to the standard setting of 96 and set the LEDs to “1 or 2 dots” (it does display “INVALID” in the LED spot though, however it does still seem to work oddly?) I also changed (specially for this sysex parameter for the Filter Cutoff) Value 2 to 127 and set the “Show Value” to Yes so it would display the encoders current value on the BCR’s display when it’s being moved.

I sent these modified parameters over to the BCR from BC Manager and to my surprise, it worked! I could control the JD-Xi’s Digital Synth 1 Partial 1 Filter Cutoff! And for good measure I gave a shot at controlling Digital Synth 1 Partial 1 Filter Resonance as well and that worked too!

On a side note as well, I did try using my original sysex instead of the one with the adjusted checksum and it still worked as well. I didn’t try other values so I don’t know if other values won’t work, but I dont think the JD-Xi bothers with specific checksums.

I will be trying to put together some kind of template for the JD-Xi and the BCR2000 now that I have starting of it working. I don’t know how long that will take (there’s a ton of parameters in the JD-Xi!), but I’ll try my best to make it as soon as possible!

Thanks a bunch for your help Pat!