BCR2000 Multi Unit plug feature list teaser

I've got a feeling I might be finally retiring my BCF that I only use for ACT nowadays and getting a BCR instead.

Great work.

timboe


Hi bitman

What you are doing for us Sonar users is  *beyond*  awesome !!!!!

May I please make a suggestion if its not too late (?)

Regarding  Sonar Mixer
 
So far, you have Volume, Pan , 2 Send Volumes, Mute and Solo.

Looking vertically at the unit from bottom-up, each "strip " has

-  3 Rotary Fader
-  2  Buttons
-  1 Rotary  which also double-up  as another button 
=  7 Controls in total

So ..... would the following be possible:

- track mute button - as is
- track solo button - as is
- track pan rotary - as is
- track volume rotary - as is
- track record  button  - assigned to the top rotary-push-button
- track [ midi / audio ] gain rotary - assigned to one of the rotarys
- track height rotary - assigned to one of the rotarys so the height of the selected track can be varied as wished

Also, with the " scribble script "

- can it be done such that it has  tranparency settings  [ say low / medium / high ]  ?

and also

- can it be set to " follow the focus automatically " of whatever function is  selected / being used ?

Please feel free to  totally ignore the above, they are just ideas.
 
All the best again and really looking forward to it.

Tim

             The Mixer channel implementation is currently from low to high, VOL Send1 Vol, Send2  Vol, Mute, Solo and Pan.
             The top switch-on-the-pot used to be record enable but to implement per-track-effect-focus, that pot switch is now select track as the BCR2000 obviously does not support touch select and I wouldn't have you messing your mix by  tweaking a control just to select the track.

              The per-track-effect-focus is optional btw.

              Just yesterday I was toying with transparency, but was at a loss as to why it would really be important to do.
              There is now 3 levels of transparency.

              The strip does follow focus.   I'll try to upload some images later but in ascii art it is               sorta like so

              -<<----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->>
                        Guitar               Drums          Lead Vocals          Bk Vocals         Bass                 Keys         
                   VOL -1- 102       LFG -2- 34          DRV -3- 56           ATT -4- 9        LMQ -5- 123       PAN -6- 65 
              <<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->>
             
              The mnemonics before the track numbers and the values show up only for the track you are currently tweaking but stay visible until you tweak another track's control. The "focus" or "page" buttons on the bcr indicate your  current focus and the sonar control surface window spells that out too. You can display all 40 tracks on one monitor if you have like a 120" LCD or as few as one track if you have a real small monitor. Again it optionally spans across monitors too and will always how the focused strip and the bcrs will shimmy into position too with the numercal display on the BCR always pointing to the left most track. It has a small horizontal scroll bar along the bottom of the strip for setting the desired viewport  (number of visible tracks on the screen).

              The   mnemonics in their current context in the ascii art are as follows :

              VOL - volume
              LFG - PRO CHANNEL EQ Low Freq Gain or Level
              DRV - CakewalkPRO CHANNEL Saturator Drive level
              ATT - PRO CHANNEL Comp attack
              PAN - yup
          

              There are 9 pages and 5 fx bin sub-pages: they are as follows

              0 - mixer
              1-  PC  gains
              2- PC  freq
              3- PC "Q"
              4- PC Low high cut
              5- PC comp (both styles)
              6- PC (cw) saturator
              7 - PC insertable PC modules (click module to gain focus ACT style)
              8 - Sonar FX bin x 4

              FFB: Don't ditch the BCFs just yet. Our plug can be setup to "ignore" the page 0 mixer section. In that way you can  use the mackie plug for the bcfs and our plug and bcrs for the "upper" EQ and FX stuff.

              :Ron

              
              
              
               

Bitman, you're my heroe! It would be even more great, if you could think about "how to make BCF and BCR work as a team, not a pair of two devices doing the same" Thanxxx,.... Adrian

I don't think it's impossible, it depends what to expect. Maybe if you could "fool" X1 to recognise BCR2000 as a Mackie C4 or something - to follow BCF in Mackie mode.

For now I use AJ mapper for BCR, general disadvantage is that top row of encoders works as volumes - and I have it in BCF.... and second - OK, I have control of Prochannel's EQ (GREAT), but BCR doesn't follow BCF (bleah:-/)

A.J. mapper for BCR allows you to get full acces to ProChannel EQ, it has even (simple) graphic layout to have preview which knob is for wchich function. But It still doesn't work with cooperation with BCF, but some fiunctions are doubled.