Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hello folks, this is my first as I recently bought a Behringer BCN44
to solve a problem that I have but I'm not sure it'll actually do what
I want ...

I play drums in a band but for small gigs I play a cajon.  As the
other members of the band think that I have chosen the easy option I'm
also in charge of running the bands lighting as we play.

When I play my full drumkit I have a small trigger pad on the side of
my snare which sends a MIDI note to some software I wrote which works
it's way through a list of lighting sequences.

This works well but when I playing my cajon I'd rather use my foot to
select sequences so I picked up a BCN44 with the intention of using it
to send the MIDI sequences.

What I'd like to do is to assign a MIDI note to each of the push knobs so that:

* for the verses I could press Preset 1
* for the choruses I could press Preset 2
* for the solo / middle 8 I could press Preset 3
* for the outro I could press Preset 4

However, I'd like each of these to be exclusively - in other words, if
I press Preset 2 I'd like Preset 1 to release ?

I've read the Behringer manual but it may as well be in Martian.  Is
this possible ?  If it's not then I'll have to look at other options
to send the MIDI signals.

Thanks in advance

Phil

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, Phil Lee <phil@...> wrote:
> What I'd like to do is to assign a MIDI note to each of the push knobs so that:
> 
> * for the verses I could press Preset 1
> * for the choruses I could press Preset 2
> * for the solo / middle 8 I could press Preset 3
> * for the outro I could press Preset 4
> 
> However, I'd like each of these to be exclusively - in other words, if
> I press Preset 2 I'd like Preset 1 to release ?
> 
> Is this possible ?  If it's not then I'll have to look at other options to send the MIDI signals.

If I understand you correctly, your receiver works with four MIDI note numbers, each of which has two states: on and off,
If this is so, you can set each (push) button to "Custom": in this mode a button can send up to 11 (freely definable) bytes when you press it.
Considering that a full Note On message is three bytes long, you can include only 3 full Note On messages.
However, if your 4 note numbers all use the same MIDI channel, you can employ "MIDI running status", i.e. omit all MIDI status bytes except the first: then you can include 5 Note messages (the first consisting of 3 bytes, the others of 2), which should be more than enough in your case.
(Actually, doesn't your receiver respond to the "All Notes Off" message? Then you don't have to switch off each note individually.)

I can't remember if you can make the BCN "learn" such a Custom message. However, in any case you can use my BCN44 Manager (available from http://home.kpn.nl/f2hmjvandenberg281/bcn44.html) to define these Custom messages.

Hope this helps,
Mark.

P.S. I won't have access to internet for the next week, so I won't be able to answer further questions during that time.