Behringer BFC2000 control surface and Vegas

PierreB wrote on 5/4/2005, 6:07 AM

Hi all.

I just bought a BFC2000 and am spending quality time trying to explore its possibilities with Vegas 5 (thanks to Nat on the Audio forum for getting me connected!)

I've been underwhelmed by the manual from Behringer, though, and I even had to download the Mackie/Cubase manual to find out exactly what the Mackie emulation actually controlled in Vegas.

Question: can anyone point a control-surface (and automation) newbie to some tutorials or other learning material, especially if it involves the BFC2000?

Thanks ahead of time.

Pierre

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bakerja wrote on 1/12/2006, 7:50 AM

I'm in the same boat with M-audio Projectmix I/o.

Where are all of the mackie control experts? I can not find a forum anywhere that has real answers.

Any help is gladly welcomed!

JAB

Nat wrote on 1/12/2006, 9:19 AM

I don't remember who did that but I have some templates for the BCF with Vegas that can help, do you need them ?

MarkWWW wrote on 1/12/2006, 11:27 AM

You might possibly find some of the information in this thread helpful.

It's about getting a different device that emulates a Mackie Control (a Behringer BCF2000) working with Vegas, so it is not directly applicable to your situation, but there might be enough similarities to make some of the information useful.

Mark

bakerja wrote on 1/12/2006, 12:06 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Now I just have to figure out which button puts the M-audio in automation mode.

JAB

MarkWWW wrote on 1/13/2006, 11:31 AM

Not having a ProjectMix myself I can't help you directly, but if you have a MIDI monitor (MIDI-OX or similar) you can just press every button and see what each of them is set up to send. The one you want will be sending a MIDI NoteOn/NoteOff for the note "D5" (on channel 1).

Having a quick look at a picture of the ProjectMix, it doesn't look as though it has as many buttons as the MCU has, so it probably does the same trick as the BCF2000 and uses one of the buttons as a "shift" function to allow the smaller number of buttons to be mapped to cover all of the buttons on the MCU (the BCF2000 has to use each button 3 times, using 2 of them as "shift" keys to modify the behaviour of the rest).

You'll just have to try them all and note down what MIDI data each sends, and then compare that list with the MCU template for Vegas to make up a chart showing which buttons on the ProjectMix correspond to which buttons on the MCU.

Mark

PierreB wrote on 1/13/2006, 12:52 PM

Mark,

Thanks for the link to that thread (I somehow missed it) and to the pdf graphic on your site... very useful.

Pierre