Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a preset on my BCF2000 to use the faders to
control the volumes of the MIDI channels 1-8 on any multitimbral synth.

Sliders 1-8 are set to control CC7 (volume) for each of MIDI channels
1-8. So far so good. But when I tried it, moving any of the sliders
changed the volume of ALL the channels simultaneously.

Any ideas where I might be going wrong?

Cheers
Andy

Hi Andy

> I'm trying to set up a preset on my BCF2000 to use the faders to
> control the volumes of the MIDI channels 1-8 on any multitimbral synth.
> 
> Sliders 1-8 are set to control CC7 (volume) for each of MIDI channels
> 1-8. So far so good. But when I tried it, moving any of the sliders
> changed the volume of ALL the channels simultaneously.

Have you checked the output from the BCF with a MidiOx (or whatever
the Mac Midi monitor is)?

Get MidiOx to display in Hex (right click on the input monitor) 
You should see a stream of values when you move the fader.

For fader 1
B0 07 00  for channel 1
B0 07 01  for channel 1
B0 07 02  for channel 1
B0 07 ??  this last value of the three bytes could really be anything
depending on where you move the fader

for the other faders

B1 07 ??  for channel 2
B2 07 ??  for channel 3
B3 07 ??  for channel 4
B4 07 ??  for channel 5
etc

How did you create the preset? With Mark's editor?

Try using the front panel - Hold 'EDIT' and move fader1
Top 1 (left) encoder set to 'CC' in the display
Top 2 set to 'Ch 9'
Top 3 to '7' for the vol
Top 4 set '0' as the min
Top 5 set '127' as the max value
Top 6 set 'Abs'
Leave 7
Top 8 set to 'on'
Press 'EXIT'
Fader 1 should be set to Channel 9 - check with MidiOx

B8 07 00
B8 07 01
B8 07 02
B8 07 03 etc

Make sure that there are no synths or PC programs running that might
echo back the CC7 messages on all channels (Sonar, for example, could
easily do this)

Let me know how you get on.

Royce

Hi Royce,

I set up the preset on the BCF itself. Didn't use any editors. I'll
see if I can find out where it went wrong.

Will let you know.

Cheers
Andy

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rpcfender" <rpcfender@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy
> 
> > I'm trying to set up a preset on my BCF2000 to use the faders to
> > control the volumes of the MIDI channels 1-8 on any multitimbral
synth.

> > 
> > Sliders 1-8 are set to control CC7 (volume) for each of MIDI channels
> > 1-8. So far so good. But when I tried it, moving any of the sliders
> > changed the volume of ALL the channels simultaneously.
> 
> Have you checked the output from the BCF with a MidiOx (or whatever
> the Mac Midi monitor is)?
> 
> Get MidiOx to display in Hex (right click on the input monitor) 
> You should see a stream of values when you move the fader.
> 
> For fader 1
> B0 07 00  for channel 1
> B0 07 01  for channel 1
> B0 07 02  for channel 1
> B0 07 ??  this last value of the three bytes could really be anything
> depending on where you move the fader
> 
> for the other faders
> 
> B1 07 ??  for channel 2
> B2 07 ??  for channel 3
> B3 07 ??  for channel 4
> B4 07 ??  for channel 5
> etc
> 
> How did you create the preset? With Mark's editor?
> 
> Try using the front panel - Hold 'EDIT' and move fader1
> Top 1 (left) encoder set to 'CC' in the display
> Top 2 set to 'Ch 9'
> Top 3 to '7' for the vol
> Top 4 set '0' as the min
> Top 5 set '127' as the max value
> Top 6 set 'Abs'
> Leave 7
> Top 8 set to 'on'
> Press 'EXIT'
> Fader 1 should be set to Channel 9 - check with MidiOx
> 
> B8 07 00
> B8 07 01
> B8 07 02
> B8 07 03 etc
> 
> Make sure that there are no synths or PC programs running that might
> echo back the CC7 messages on all channels (Sonar, for example, could
> easily do this)
> 
> Let me know how you get on.
> 
> Royce
>