Hi aj,

your work is great and I'd like to know from you if you think possible to develop a new plug-in form MCU-PRO that make possible a decent control of plug-in.

Control plug-in with MCU is a disperate operation. It's not possible to open window from MCU and if open a plug-in I dont'have sync with MCU that use a command sequence for select plug-in.

The normal way must be:

plug-in button
funnction button F1-F5 for select insert plug-in, open ypur window and display control parameter.

What you think about this???

Thanks

miles

Aj, thanks very much for our help. It all works fine now and it's awesome! Great job!!!

Unfortunately you would need to change the source code to have it work that way. At present page 1 is EQ and I did it that way because I felt that most of the time I'd rather have pan and aux sends on the channel strip - I hadn't thought of making the whole unit just an EQ because you would (as you have suggested) be limited to at best a parametric sweep (and no Q adjustment) with the limited number of controls available per strip. I can see why that might be attractive if you have BCFs for channel control - sounds like a nice setup - but I only have the single BCR so optimised the plugin for just that purpose.

But, as you say, you do have the source code and it is reasonably well commented, I think. If you're not a software guru there are plenty of students who are (a) always looking for beer money and (b) doing IT courses and looking for a topic for their final year , so you might be able to pursuade one of them to help you out (they could use the work as credits for a final year assignment, for instance 'application of control surfaces to digital audio production'....

BUT

If you don't mind the link only being half-duplex (i.e control surface won't track changes made with a mouse), why not do it this way

1. Insert the Sonitus EQ as an insert

2. Select Show Assignable Controls from the FX menu which you get from the three little >>> triangles at the bottom of the track pane

3. Reassign any of these four reassignable controls to any of the BCR controls - remember you can program your own BCR presets entirely independently of the preset you use for the control surface plugin, and switch to any of these any time you want. Don't forget you can change which four EQ params are exposed this way, and a further four appear in track view as well, so you can control up to 8 params this way (no ACT involved at all, this pre-dates ACT).



Now I can't see why you couldn't make each strip of knobs control channel EQ that way. You would have some issues bank switching but by default each preset on the BCR has 4 logical banks so you could control 32 channels of EQ directly from the BCR that way. Just a thought....

Thank you, Thank you, Thank You!!

I've done a liitle C, If it's necessary I'll hack it up and recompile.
I'll get one of those little buggers first and see what I can do with it.

But I'm prone to syntax errors.

Um, Bob. This MIX_PARAM_DYN_MAP functionality is not, to the best of my knowledge, documented in the control surface SDK version that I have

Oh how you just scared me :)

The SDK here http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/default.asp definitely has it. Look at the Mix Param enums in the IDL file. I'd be happy to help if you have any questions. You would have to implement ISurfaceParamMapping in your plug-in ( that handles both ACT and WAI).

-Bob

Hi aj-

Big advocate of your CS here! It definitely does work in S8, if you know?

Thanks-

-Susan

How do I get the GUI to show up?

I posted this on the other BCR2000 thread. I am trying to follow the instructions, but appear to be fat fingering something.

I am struggling a bit here. I did get great two-way connection last night, but not controlling the things I want.

I am using Sonar 8 Studio. Under Controllers I have bcr2000control-1 selected. Using the Behringer editor I have set the BCR2000 pretty close to where it should be. Here's where my BCR2000 left hand 'strip' is:

From bottom to top I have 3 rotaries, 2 buttons and a rotary/button combo

All Channels = 16
from bottom to top CC numbers
97
89
81
73
65
1

I was unable to set the top row CC numbers with the Behringer software and I don't know how to directly with the BCR2000. (Direction here would be appreciated).

Anywho.

Sonar recognizes this, but not in the way I would expect. Here's what my rotors get me:

97 - Post Effect Send Pan (I'd like VOL)
89 - Post Effect Send Vol (I'd like PAN)
81 - Regular Pan (I'm open here)
73 - solo (just right)
65 - mute (just right)
01 - Rec on/off (just right)
01 - nothing (I'd like Input gain)

ORIGINAL: aj

To manually reconfigure any of the controls on the BCR2000

(this is documented in the BCR2000 manual which if you have mislaid your paper copy, you can download as a PDF from the Behringer website)

1. Press and hold the EDIT switch

2. Press the switch or rotate the encoder you wish to edit

3. Release the EDIT switch

4. The LED on the switch or encoder will now flash.

5. Now the top row of rotary controls will allow you to set the various parameters of the encoder or switch.

The first rotary encoder defines the type of MIDI message that will be sent. For the BCR2000 control surface plugin this will always be MIDI CC so make sure this reads 'CC'.

The second rotary encoder defines the MIDI channel on which the message will be sent. For the BCR2000 control surface plugin all controller messages will use MIDI channel 16

The third rotary encoder defines the CC number associated with the switch or encoder you are editing. The values for each one of the switches or encoders is defined in the documentation that comes with the plugin

The fourth and fifth encoders define the minimum and maximum values to be transmitted - normally these are set to 0 and 127 respectively

The sixth encoder defines whether the values are absolute or relative (for encoders), and should be set to absolute.For switches the value should be set to 't on' which is temporarily on.

The seventh encoder defines (for encoders only) how the display LEDs should react when the encoder is moved. It's your preference how you set this, it won't affect the operation of the control surface.

The eighth encoder defines the initial state of the control (on or off) and should normally be set to OFF

To exit EDIT mode, press the EDIT key again. Changes will not be permanently saved against the preset until you save it with the STORE button.

The third rotary encoder defines the CC number associated with the switch or encoder you are editing. The values for each one of the switches or encoders is defined in the documentation that comes with the plugin

That's what I was missing. I thought that was something to do with a zero to 127 setting.

Many thanks

Hi-

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this helps.

I use aj's wonderful SONAR control surface preset as #15 on my BCR2000. But then I also use others, like
#16 for SONAR's ACT, #17 for RealGuitar, #18 for GPO, etc.

My point is, with the BCR2000 (and BCF2000. etc.) you're not locked into using one control set.

-Susan

ORIGINAL: Susan G
I use aj's wonderful SONAR control surface preset as #15 on my BCR2000. But then I also use others, like
#16 for SONAR's ACT, #17 for RealGuitar, #18 for GPO, etc.

Hrm, interesting. Can you switch presets in mid-project? Or do you need to restart something before that?

If I have three BCR2000s, how do I make two = 9-16 and three = 17-24?

Thank you AJ for all your work and sharing it with us. If I inherit lots of cash in the near future, I'd buy you the latest and greatist that Cakewalk has to offer in gratitude.

On Sourceforge the the two SYSX files appear to be no longer available, the older v.1 is gone, and the seperate files for SYSX files are missing. Does anyone have these?

Thanks

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