Live with Behringer BCR-2000 and some advanced midi conf.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:15 am
Hi. I just bought BCR-2000 controller and have a few issues with it.
First of all the select banks 1-8 buttons do not work, or actually I am not sure how they should work. Pressing them just shows on/off in BCR-2000 screen, Live indicates that something remote control is happening but I don't withness anything happening except the remote control indicator flashing.
Then when I press the arm tracks button, there is very long delay before the track is armed. Although i assume that this might be fault of USB hub as Novation Launchpad leds are also updating extremely slowly.
I am not sure if I have correct preset for controlling live. I tried the BCR-2000 mapping dump from Live settings menu but I am not sure if it works, BCR-2000 doesn't give any feedback like "dump received", the leds just flash a bit. I tried the dump also from MIDI-OX but I am not sure if it worked even from there. Could somebody give me a few controller numbers for the "correct" live mapping (e.g. all cc numbers of leftmost column), so that I can check from MIDI-OXE if I have the correct mapping loaded...?
I suspect that factory preset 1 might be also the one for Ableton Live but am not sure.
I have also some trouble in getting the uppermost encoders to show the correct device parameters. It seems that they contain their own state and you have to turn the knob a bit before the knob syncs with the virtual knob in ableton. I thought that the idea with LED rotary controllers was that they are all the time synchronized with their equivalents in Live...?
Then 1. does anybody know that is there any way to change the amount of degrees you have to turn the knob before it propagates its whole value range? Now it seems that you have to turn maybe like 450-550 degrees to get the value from 0 to 127 which is a bit too sparse for fast control. So if you want for example the value to go from 0 to 127 when rotating the knob only 180 degrees is there any way to do this..?
How about acceleration? Was this usually implemented in the controller or DAW (Live) if you wish to have it?
How in your opinion you get the best control and most reliable operation from this unit? E.g. is it better to change the knobs to NPRN increment/decrement mode...?
And yeah, I noticed that there was a few BCR-2000 topics here already, but they are ages old, Live is nowadays 8 and my OS is Win7-64....
First of all the select banks 1-8 buttons do not work, or actually I am not sure how they should work. Pressing them just shows on/off in BCR-2000 screen, Live indicates that something remote control is happening but I don't withness anything happening except the remote control indicator flashing.
Then when I press the arm tracks button, there is very long delay before the track is armed. Although i assume that this might be fault of USB hub as Novation Launchpad leds are also updating extremely slowly.
I am not sure if I have correct preset for controlling live. I tried the BCR-2000 mapping dump from Live settings menu but I am not sure if it works, BCR-2000 doesn't give any feedback like "dump received", the leds just flash a bit. I tried the dump also from MIDI-OX but I am not sure if it worked even from there. Could somebody give me a few controller numbers for the "correct" live mapping (e.g. all cc numbers of leftmost column), so that I can check from MIDI-OXE if I have the correct mapping loaded...?
I suspect that factory preset 1 might be also the one for Ableton Live but am not sure.
I have also some trouble in getting the uppermost encoders to show the correct device parameters. It seems that they contain their own state and you have to turn the knob a bit before the knob syncs with the virtual knob in ableton. I thought that the idea with LED rotary controllers was that they are all the time synchronized with their equivalents in Live...?
Then 1. does anybody know that is there any way to change the amount of degrees you have to turn the knob before it propagates its whole value range? Now it seems that you have to turn maybe like 450-550 degrees to get the value from 0 to 127 which is a bit too sparse for fast control. So if you want for example the value to go from 0 to 127 when rotating the knob only 180 degrees is there any way to do this..?
How about acceleration? Was this usually implemented in the controller or DAW (Live) if you wish to have it?
How in your opinion you get the best control and most reliable operation from this unit? E.g. is it better to change the knobs to NPRN increment/decrement mode...?
And yeah, I noticed that there was a few BCR-2000 topics here already, but they are ages old, Live is nowadays 8 and my OS is Win7-64....