Hi Blades.. 
    Could you explain what you mean in this statement ??? 
    Are you able to get Sonar to only show the track controlled by the BCF ??>  
 
----OK THIS IS MY RESPONSE, since I can't get the quoting to work after messing it up on initial post!
 
What I mean is this:  In the Options...Controllers Surfaces, at the bottom of the window there are a few options.  I don't remember when these showed up in this dialog, but I think it was 8.x-ish.  Anyway, the option is "Control Strips Visible in:" and you can choose Track View, Console View, or All Strips.

The way it used to be is it was always in "all strips" mode.  The way I have it selected is to control tracks visible in the track view.  This way, if I use the track manager to hide a track, it disappears from the BCF control and the next tracks are bumped down to fill its place.

The cool thing for me, since I never actually hide tracks, is that it also follows open and collapsed folders.  So, if I collapse all of my folders except the one that contains my drum tracks, the BCF channel 1 immediately starts controlling the first exposed drum track in the folder and goes forward from there.  It's simpler and prettier than doing it with the WIA markers.

Does that answer the question?  Is that what you hoped it would do?

Thanks Blades...
That's not quite what I was hoping for, but it is better than nothing.
I'll give it a shot.

Hi FBB

Great manual,  I'm sat at work reading it during lunch time.

However,  you need a proof reader...  the very first line of the main guide contains a massive error.

Quote "We'll start with the shift keys. Button A is Shift 1 and button B is Shift 2."

Your photo has the shift buttons marked as A and C so anyone using those buttons and not reading the printed lables is onto a looser from step one.

Karyn

Karyn


Hi FBB

Great manual,  I'm sat at work reading it during lunch time.

However,  you need a proof reader...  the very first line of the main guide contains a massive error.

Quote "We'll start with the shift keys. Button A is Shift 1 and button B is Shift 2."

Your photo has the shift buttons marked as A and C so anyone using those buttons and not reading the printed lables is onto a looser from step one.

Karyn

Congratulations on spotting the 'deliberate' mistake. , thanks.....

I've changed it an uploaded the amended document. Let me know if any more slipped through the net. Ta.........

FastBikerBoy
 Let me know if any more slipped through the net. Ta.........

ok then,  d'you want them one at a time or all together? ;)
 
Here's three...
 
Same page, para 2...
 
Quote "By default when you first fire up Sonar buttons B, F, and M should be lit. This shows that you are
currently controlling banks of tracks (A), in “Track Mode (multi)” (F), and audio is stopped (M). Press
and hold A, this should extinguish all lights. Release and the lights will come back on. Press and hold
B and lights should again go out. So far so good. If you have lights lit with either A or B pressed, you
have another mode or function active."

In order should read B  C  C
 
 
A question,  further into the guide you mention holding D + A + (a third)  several times,  should it read A + D + (a third)
Does it matter pressing D before A to hold them?  I'd have though it would.  (Still at work so can't test this)
 
(Ssshhh,  don't tell anyone I'm forum surfing at work)
 
Karyn

Thanks again, that's those three fixed...........

Keep 'em coming.

A question,  further into the guide you mention holding D + A + (a third)  several times,  should it read A + D + (a third)
Does it matter pressing D before A to hold them?  I'd have though it would.

Yes it does matter. If you are in edit mode (which is A+D) then to access certain features such as stepping to the next plugin you must hold D then A then J. If you do it the other way round (A+D+J) you would turn edit mode off and then move tracks by 1 (I think - I'm at work as well at the mo' ) but it would definitely have a different result to that required.

EDIT: Post removed - duplicated a post somehow???

Jesse G


Thanks for the shout out Fast Biker Boy.
 
 
Yes, in the Dynamics Mode, you can use, If you still have Sonar 2.2XL, the "Timeworks compressor".  This Compressor was the default compressor like Sonitus is now the default compressor for Sonar.   Back then, Sonar came with it's own compressor and Equalizer.   Both were by Timeworks and both worked great with the BCF2000 and in Sonar.  The plugs were mainly DXI plugins back then, but may have been updated to VST today, I haven't checked the specs.
 
Oh, one more thing, The BCF mainly use VST plugsins inside of  Sonar.  Only a few DXI plugins will work with the BCF while using SONAR.   
 
These plugins plus many more are still located at http://www.sonictimeworks.com/products.php
 

 

 
 
PEACE

Great news, I've just sorted out how to map the Sonitus Compressor to the "Dynamics mode".
 
See http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=1928916 for how to do it. Guide will be updated soon...........
 
 

I'm just going to add any button presses I find to this thread and if anyone else discovers any please add them here, I'll update the guide as an when I get time.

Anyway here's a new one.......... M1 + Play (D + N in the guide) turns the Audio Engine on & off.

Also, as far as I can tell mapping a compressor using the method above should work with any compressor of your choice. All you need to do is know the compressors name as recognised by Sonar.

Hi all tomorrow i get my BCF2000 at last! I'm glad you guys are here to help as it sounds a bit daunting.