Audio control surface motorized faders

ScorpioProd wrote on 2/21/2008, 11:49 AM

Using a Behringer BCF2000, when you want to edit some audio envelopes you've already created, what do you need to set so the motors on the sliders don't fight your changes?

I haven't discovered what the secret is, it seems sometimes the motors really fight what I try to change and other times they don't and just let me do the changes.

I don't want to break the motors, there must be some setting when using it to edit waveforms you've already created where the motors won't fight the changes?

Thanks for any info.

Comments

Kennymusicman wrote on 2/21/2008, 1:32 PM

I don't think the BCF2000 is intellgient enough to detect "touch" and so, it does not care if you are trying to override a preset automation, which you would have set to write:touch in vegas. You could either turn off reading of automation on that track, or, possibly less helpfully, turn of the output of midi from vegas' control surface section temporarily.

ScorpioProd wrote on 2/22/2008, 10:22 PM

Well, I tried to use a programable command from the Behringer manual to set a key to turn off the motors when I want to edit something I created, but this doesn't seem to work in the mode the unit needs to be in to work with Vegas.

So what I have found instead is that if you are moving the sliders every so slightly when you start playback, that apparently puts them into write mode instead of read mode and it won't fight me.

Looks like that's what one needs to do, unless anyone comes up with a better answer.