Behringer B-CONTROL BCF2000 any reviews? recommendations?

[ark]

hey everyone! i recently stumbled upon this neeat little studio gadget the Behringer B-CONTROL FADER BCF2000

http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx

im kind of looking for a really low budget home mixing console something alont the lines of this!

It's not a mixing console; it's a MIDI controller. So it doesn't have any audio inputs (or outputs, for that matter) -- you have to use it with a program (such as Live) that accepts apropriate MIDI inputs.

[Soundscapemusic]

hey everyone! i recently stumbled upon this neeat little studio gadget the Behringer B-CONTROL FADER BCF2000

http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx

im kind of looking for a really low budget home mixing console something alont the lines of this!

It's not a mixing console; it's a MIDI controller. So it doesn't have any audio inputs (or outputs, for that matter) -- you have to use it with a program (such as Live) that accepts apropriate MIDI inputs.

yess i know, but i want to control it "LIKE" a mixing console where all functions are mapped to lives mixing elements i.e faders, pans, solos, arm/record, sends etc erc

[ciw]

personally i wouldn't trust behringer to make motorized faders that aren't noisy as feck and don't break.

i have owned a bcr2000 for four years and borrowed another one for a year ... virtual encoders are cool, silent and more robust, but still the things break, several buttons and leds on my bcr no longer work.

also personally i hardly use it for production, the mouse and keyboard work just fine most of the time. my brain can only deal with concentrating on one thing at once so i don't have a use for 8 faders, with or without mackie control. most of my projects have 30-50 tracks in them so with all that paging about it's hardly convenient anyway.

VERY useful for live playing though.

[Soundscapemusic]

thanks for the input! still figuring out how to use the thing but i plan on using it for a variety of things.

i didnt trust it either before i bought it. but i saw alot of good reviews and had some good feedback.

[Chisel]

thanks for the input! still figuring out how to use the thing but i plan on using it for a variety of things.

i didnt trust it either before i bought it. but i saw alot of good reviews and had some good feedback.

Make sure to get BCFView. Start the BCF2000 in Mackie emulation mode and launch BCFView before you start Live and you'll have a nifty pseudo-LCD display for viewing all the parameters that get auto-mapped to the BCF2000 when in Mackie emulation mode. Neat stuff!

Peace \/
chisel316