[RWP] Success Running Reaper With Behringer BCF2000

[indigo]

Yea, I think I got it!
I followed a combination of directions from a YouTube video, and the 
directions I got from a Gear Heads forum.
In my Reaper 3.78, Windows XP 32 bit, and Window-Eyes 6.1, the BCF2000 
must be disabled in Reaper's options/preferences/Midi Devices; just the 
opposite of
the directions for running Sonar with the Mackie Display Reader, where 
the BCF2000 must be enabled in Sonar's Midi Devices.
I set the BCR2000 in Mackie Mode Sonar, opened reaper, went to 
options/preferences/midi devices, enabled and then disabled the BCF2000 
settings; just to wake up the settings and make sure they took.
This time I got the apply button that should have been there before, but 
wasn't.
I hit apply; then okay.
Then I went to Reaper's options/preferences/control surface; double 
clicked on the Remove button at the number pad; to removed any previous 
assignment, double clicked on add and selected Mackie Mode Universal 
from the list of 8 modes the BCF2000 sends.
I went to the number pad and single left clicked on Mackie Mode 
Universal, and got Mackie DEV 55; 1 of 1;  in that same edit boxwhere 
Mackie Mode Universal was shown before.
Still at the number pad, I went to Midi Output, and this time the 
current input and output settings were shown on a line above Midi Input 
and on a line above Midi Output.
I single left clicked each of the setting that were displayed; and a 
menu dropped at the arrow keys.
The BCF2000 shows 2 settings in Midi Input, BCF2000, and below that 
BCF2000, with a 2 in parentheses.
I selected the top setting.
In Midi Output the BCF2000 shows 3 settings, BCF2000, below that BCF2000 
(2) and below that BCF2000 (3).
I also chose the top setting for Midi output
Then I hit okay, closed and reopened Reaper, and the faders immediately 
jumped to tracks 1 through 8, I pushed the right bank button and the 
faders jumped to tracks 9 through 16, then 17 through 24, etcetera; 
through the 32 track project.
Each time the faders jumped to a different bank of tracks they took a 
different position, showing that Reaper is sending track level 
information to the BCF2000, and the fader positions indicate the track's 
level.
The transport buttons work as expected. The V Pots send pan for each 
track..
In Reaper the top mute button sets a marker at the current position, and 
holding the upper shift button while pressing the top button mutes the 
track, not quite the same as in Sonar.
I'm sure there are many more settings to discover yet, with the 
combinations of shift buttons and other buttons.
Best of all, ReaAccess seems totally unaffected, everything I tested in 
ReaAccess still works as expected.
When I exit Reaper I no longer lose speech, as in my last experiment
It looks very  much like the BCF2000 adds to the access we already get 
from ReaAccess, to do automations, and should be very useful during 
mixdown.
I even got some speech from ReaAccess, announcing setting Marker 1 when 
I pushed the top button.

Now I'm wondering what those other BCF2000 settings in Midi Input and 
Midi Output will do.
Next, I'll try connecting Tim Burgess's Mackie Display Reader between 
the BCF2000 and Reaper, with virtual midi cables, and maybe I'll get 
spoken feedback as to what each of the BCF2000's controls is doing.
Indigo L