Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hi Mike 

I'm sorry no one has tried to help.
I generally try to leave stuff that I would have to guess at an answer
or the general questions to others as I seem to fill a lot of space
here and I would like to give the many others equally qualified a
chance to help  and so people don't have t keep listening to my
ramblings (oops too late!)

Graham's suggestions are on the button. Note that the BCR doesn't have
an expression (continuous) controller only jacks for two switches.

Windows and MacOS, as you know, can have many MIDI interfaces
connected. How your software handles them is a question for the
software, so you need to be specific about what software you want to use.
For example Reason (from 3.02) takes over the BCR by programming the
controllers when you select a track. It's great to see the display
spinning when you select the ReDrum drum machine or the Subtractor
synth etc. All the values in the track are sent to the BCR so it
displays the current values. 
Is it the best implementation of control surface programming I have
seen (much better than Sonar's ACT) and it was were I started when
analyzing the BCR sysex.
I don't know what happens if you have two units connected. Something
special I suspect as I have a Frontier Tranzport which it also finds
it and works perfectly, just the way you would expect it to.

I have always thought that the BC chaining was more suited to
increasing the number of "channels" ie from an BCF 8 channel DAW mixer
to a 16 channel one.

I'm sure you can mix a BCF with a BCR, but if you want them to do
different jobs at the same time (DAW controller and VST synth editor)
then I would connect them to the USB ports and make them separate Midi
interfaces for the PC (U-1) or stand alone Midi (S-1)into a multi
input MIDI interface like a  MidiSport

Hope that helps

Royce

> Hi again Steve,
> 
> well, I have had a little more time to check things out here. I see
> there are 623 members, but nobody has offered any help yet. I guess
> there must be a lot of inactive members though; for example I was
> checking out the file section and saw a JPEG previewing a template
> someone was making for the Arturia CS-80 V. Cool, I thought, since I
> own that software...then I noticed the JPEG was posted April 2006.
> 
> I dunno, I get the impression nobody is here to help noobs, and that
> they had to learn most of what they know by trial and error and
> intensive study of MIDI, and have no time to tutor people who are just
> getting started.
> 
> cheers,
> Mike.
>