BCF2000 B-Control Fader and Cubase SX 2

[GnzlO]

Hello mates, today I bought a Behringer BCF2000 B-Control Fader to stop dealing with mouse and virtual knobs (I can't stand it), after instaling some driver I found it very hard just to set up the fades to the mixer of the cubase, I already set it on the Device set-up of the software, so cubase recognized it, but i'm very lost in ALL the million things I have to do just to mix through it,they (the fades) just dont do anything, the manual just describes everything but does not explain how to do this, does anybody have 15 minutes of their time to explain to me how to assign the fades to the Cubase mixer?...from that point I think I might be able to develop how to control more things through this hardware, I appreciate ANY help and thank you very, very much!

Regards,
gnzlo

[tacman7]

In the device menu you have to add a mackie controller device, then set it to the midi port where your BCF is. That's it on the cubase side.

Then you have to get the BCF into mackie mode, in the manual.

Then you can create different mixer setup in different workspaces and the BCF will control it when you jump to it, or if you have a mixer and hide the wav tracks and show the group tracks it will control the groups etc.

Works great.

I just don't know if SX2 can do mackie emulation...
There was a big change between SX2 and SX3.11, I've seen software that requires 3.11 minimum.

If it doesn't do mackie emulation then you have a harder path. There is a Yahoo group:
bc2000 : bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

That might help if you have to do it manually.

[dr_thomas]

Hi,

I had the same problem and I got as far as switching the BCF to Mackie Controller mode - it all works pretty well but when I push the bcf faders up, although the faders in cubase move, the BCF faders snap back to the bottom 2-3 seconds later - although the cubase ones stay where they are.

Presume I'm doing something stupid but I'm new to Cubase and control surfaces.

Any ideas?

[tacman7]

You did add a mackie control device and set it to the port where the BCF is...

Your using USB? or two midi cables?
You set in and out to BCF?

Sometimes cubase has to be restarted after configuring.

Show the mixer then hide wav's or VSTi's etc. on the left so you have different mixer configurations, the BCF should jump to the new config.

Don't force against the motors.

[dr_thomas]

Thanks, I'll try the different configs.

I'm pretty sure I have the Mackie devise set (it shows on the BCF display) and I do have bcf set to in and out for that device

Re cables - I'm using USB. I do have a pair of midi in/out cables that I could use - but they're attached to the PC via a USB adapter anyway - i don't know if that's normal for midi cables.

Thanks again

[tacman7]

So you went into devices/device setup in cubase SX and added a new device, a mackie control.
Then you click on that device.
That device is what you set to the bcf usb in and bcf usb out.

Then it's setup.

Holding the second button on the bcf when you turn it on gets it into mackie mode, and thats done.

Your faders aren't following your screen movements?

[dr_thomas]

Yep - that's it exactly. Plus the although the screen faders do respond to the bfc ones, the bcf ones snap back after a second or two.

A friend of mine suggested the problem might be that I'm working with a project that pre-dates installation of the bcf - and that I should try starting from scratch. Do you think that would help - I work away from home a lot so I can't try it until Thursday/Friday.

[tacman7]

A lot of things require cubase 3.1.1 minimum.

I can open old projects and use BCF.

I use different workspaces with different mixer configs using the 'can hide' parameter so when I jump to them the BCF changes according to what workspace your in.

[dr_thomas]

Sorted. Updating the firmware did the trick - odd I thought, since the unit's bran new and the Mackie emulation was already there but ...

Thanks again.

[rr pete]

Originally Posted by GnzlO

Hello mates, today I bought a Behringer BCF2000 B-Control Fader to stop dealing with mouse and virtual knobs (I can't stand it), after instaling some driver I found it very hard just to set up the fades to the mixer of the cubase, I already set it on the Device set-up of the software, so cubase recognized it, but i'm very lost in ALL the million things I have to do just to mix through it,they (the fades) just dont do anything, the manual just describes everything but does not explain how to do this, does anybody have 15 minutes of their time to explain to me how to assign the fades to the Cubase mixer?...from that point I think I might be able to develop how to control more things through this hardware, I appreciate ANY help and thank you very, very much!

Regards,
gnzlo

Hi
Just signed up on this site,

am using bcf 2000 with fruity loops 8

first off goto behringer support down load & save to your desktop,
create new folder for each zip file,
move zip files to individual folders, unzip within each folder,
install updates in the following order;

bcf2000 usb midi driver v1213 (install it)
bcf2000 update utility (install it)
restart your pc
power up your bcf 2000 in default emulation mode (button 1 on your bcf 2000),

select usb mode u1

run the update utility, open file bcf2000 audio software bcf2000_1-10.syx and install it,

bcf2000 audio sotfware syx 1-10 (install it)
bcf view (install it)

when you click exit it flags an error (ignore this)

Power down your bcf 2000,
power up your bcf 2000 in mackie emulation mode (button 2 on your bcf2000)

restart your pc,

fire up your sequencer software,
in the midi settings output select bcf2000[1] you must select port 102 to control your faders,

for the input select bcf2000[1] select mackie control universal make sure its enabled,

save your settings !

in the encoder groups press the bottom right hand button this will activate the pan functions,

make sure the edit button is lit, when its not your faders will go back to zero every time ?????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!

everthing should be linked

just spent the last four days workin this out all the instructions are as clear as mud !!

see these 2 links for the demos after you have installed the all updates mentioned above,

YouTube - Setting Up The BCF2000 to Control Fl Studio 8's Mixer

YouTube - Take Control of EQ with the BCF2000 in FL Studio 8

good luck;
Pete

ps. does anyone know how to cascade 2 bcf2000 ????