dys4ik wrote:Pasha wrote:dys4ik wrote:I was hoping it would be something easy like that. Booo!
I'll post that tonight ( I had a problem yesterday.... I was so tired that I fell asleep as soon as I arrived at home.....)
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- Pasha
So, could we create a custom profile that would ass the master fader to the returns page (maybe the far right fader--how many people use 8 returns?) and otherwise include all the settings of the mackie emu?
No. You have to cancel from your mind Behringer MCU emulation first.
Mackie Control has more keys than a BCF2000. But the basics are very easy to explain:
You have 8 Faders and 8 V-Pots that work both as Knobs and Push buttons.
Additionally you have a separate Master Fader. There are some buttons (i.e. Pan,Sends, Instrument, Flip) that control the way V-Pots are mapped and the Page displayed. Bank/Channel buttons are also present to help you 'page' thru tracks beyond 8. V-Pots follow the track assignment of the last bank/channel pressed.
For example if you select Track 1 and then 'Send' button, your 8 V-Pots (that are defaulted to control Pan) now control Sends, if you have more than eight you can page thru them using the page buttons. So you cannot create an 'Hybrid' knobs configuration, it won't work, by design. If you press 'Instrument' all your knobs represent a Virtual Device on that Track and if you press the relevant one you enter Instrument edit mode and you have to use Page + or - to page through the parameters. If you had Chorus Reverb e Compressor in a track and you would press V-pot number 2 you could edit all reverb parameters.
I have leveraged the encoders group aboard BCF2000 so that one group acts as the original Mackie V-pots while the other won't thus I have remapped a V-pot to be Master Channel. I have also tried to program faders 1-7 as faders, and fader 8 as Master but with no success. When you bank to reach tracks 8 and beyond the control gets messy. 8 faders = 8 tracks that's the way it works. What I have tried to do is:
1- Eliminate any need to use both hands or fingers in unnatural position to use shift-key combinations
2- All must be operated using one hand
3- Reduce the functionalities back to the basics:
Volume/Pan/Send/Instrument/Master Control,
Select/Mute/Solo/Record
Fire Clip/Scene, Record in Arrangement, Play,Stop
I'm happy with my work even if for BCF2000 limitation when not in Mackie Emulation you can't have LED rings feedback on the V-Pots when in Pan/Send/Instrument mode. The downside of it is that I had to use every button on the BCF2000 so that I cannot edit or change presets anymore.
BCF accepts Program Changes so you can change from Live which probably won't do in a Live Performance situation.... but I do not perform Live at the moment.
- Hope this helps
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- Pasha
