[RWP] Success Running Reaper With Behringer BCF2000

[Scott Chesworth]

Awesome, even if the setup process is a little strange.

Keep us posted on how you get on when you throw Tim's MDR into the mix man.

Scott

On 2/10/12, indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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