Wow, this IS embarrassing... it was all down to human error. 

 Funny how we can miss one minute detail and it can cause us hours of headache. 

When I checked my .ini file, I had failed to remove the old [EQ] and [Bus] parameters, so that is why the BCF was not controlling the PC correctly and some dials were moving in increments of on or off. 

 I was wondering why you have the pots assigned so randomly FBB, LOL. 

Anyway, came home changed the ini file and now.... WORKS. 

 Today, I won.... there are battles ahead but tonight I rest easy... 


Thanks again FBB, Appreciate all your help. may you always have bikes and fast ones at that. :)

 Also, looking at that site:  http://www.chrisboucher.c./cakewalk/mackiecontrol/   i kinda learnt how to create your own settings for any plug so I may have a bash at the Gliss EQ i've got or something else... let you know if i find something useful


It would be nice if there was a thread or page dedicated to parameters for 3rd party plugs that peeps had set up to add to their ini files.

Hey don't be so hard on yourself, we all make mistakes that what makes us human.

At least you've got it sorted out. Good luck with sorting out some of your other plugins. They are relatively easy to do once you've got the hang of it.

The MackiControl.dll does ned some TLC though, there's a few functions that just don't work under X1 and of course PC control other than the EQ is not possible.

It's worth anyone reading this putting in a feature request for improved Mackie CS support. I already have.

BTW, my bikes are always fast, it's the rider lacking balls that keeps the lap times slow.

Cheers FBB, 

 Irony is that now I have it working correctly I find that it is actually 1 million times faster to control the PC EQ with the mouse. 

 Currently it is, find bank on BCF with the desired EQ band gain control - boost, 

 then you want to sweep, so > change bank to find the sweep for that EQ etc etc... v slow. 

 LOL. 

but, I guess that is just the way you have set it out FBB, maybe that works better on the MCU. not sure. 

 Anyway, I can edit it so that the first band controls are all on one bank etc. So thats what I'll do. 

 Silver OUT.

yes it is set up for my use. €i have a mcu €€and xt so that's 16 available parameters at a time. plus there's the m2-m4 keys
that allow quick access to user defined parameters such as q etc.

sorry about the post formatting. the blackberry browser is even worse with the forum software than firefox 6 is.

Out of interest, has the most recent X1 patch fixed the mute arm enable bug?

Child

Rothchild


Out of interest, has the most recent X1 patch fixed the mute arm enable bug?

Child

i haven't tried tbh. given that it's lost some functionality rather than gained it, i'll be surprised if it is fixed. the mackie cs dll is in some need of a lot of tlc from cw.

Considering that it took Cakewalk quite a bit of time to update it's own VS700 series with a new control surface driver and that the Prochannel controls appears upside down control wise shows that theres lots of work to do in that area.

mudgel


Considering that it took Cakewalk quite a bit of time to update it's own VS700 series with a new control surface driver and that the Prochannel controls appears upside down control wise shows that theres lots of work to do in that area.

The most annoying thing from my point of view is that the MCU can't even 'see' the PC Compressor & Saturator. It wouldn't be too bad if I could control it as a regular plugin but as it stands there is no control at all. I've put in a feature request and I'm hoping others using the Mackie protocol have too.

Ok, I have now set up my BCF2000 MC .ini how I like it. First band controls all on one bank etc. 

 just wondering 1 thing. IS it possible to have a blank vpot? for example 

VPOT1=0, BLAH BLAH
VPOT2=1, BLAH BLAH
VPOT3= **BLANK*
ETC.

 Thing is, when I leave one blank so I can have a gap in the controls, it seems fine going up through the banks (in edit mode) but it seems to lose the last vpot control and then going back down the banks it shifts everything else back one place. 

Is it just a case that there are 27 parameters, and the mackieControl HAS to have the first 27 controls set as one for one. 

 Hope that makes sense? 

SilverfoxUK


Ok, I have now set up my BCF2000 MC .ini how I like it. First band controls all on one bank etc. 

just wondering 1 thing. IS it possible to have a blank vpot? for example 

VPOT1=0, BLAH BLAH
VPOT2=1, BLAH BLAH
VPOT3= **BLANK*
ETC.

Thing is, when I leave one blank so I can have a gap in the controls, it seems fine going up through the banks (in edit mode) but it seems to lose the last vpot control and then going back down the banks it shifts everything else back one place. 

Is it just a case that there are 27 parameters, and the mackieControl HAS to have the first 27 controls set as one for one. 

Hope that makes sense? 

Short answer is I don't know.

My best guess though would be no. I think if you don't assign a parameter to a V-pot then it will automatically be assigned to one, whether you like it or not.

The reason I think that is if there is no assignment for a particular plugin in the ini file then the default behaviour is to assign the V-pots in the order in which the parameters are presented by Sonar.

I guess there's no harm in trying and see what happens.