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At the time of writing, this is titled USB MIDI DRIVER (V1.1.1.1) for BCF2000 & BCR2000, but check to see if they’ve released a newer one. Download the latest USB driver from the Behringer site.Otherwise Windows will Bluescreen everytime you turn on the BCF in Mackie mode. Windows XP SP2 – some of the drivers below depend on this, so if you haven’t upgraded already, do it now.The crux of the solution is we need to make the BCF2000 behave as a Mackie Control Surface. Also, I’m running all this on Windows XP, so Mac users will find no joy here (it probably works fine on Macs out of the box, doesn’t everything?) Note, I can’t claim credit for any of these discoveries, all I’m doing is pulling half a dozen different posts together into one place in the hopes that it’ll save someone else some time. After a couple of hours of digging, I pieced together all the dependencies and it works beautifully. Further, the BCF2000 has a Mackie emulation mode, so in theory I should be able to bypass the MIDI Learn piece altogether. Live can handle Mackie control surfaces, and further, do all the auto-magical-mapping stuff I wanted, even in Live 5. However, I came across a few posts on the Ableton forums that gave me some hope. Some of the gloss had come off my new acquisition. Live 6 has some new cool auto-magical mapping function, but I’m in Live 5. Also, even if I had mapped them, as soon as I created a new track, I’d have to stop and map it down to the controller, it can’t just notice there’s a new track and map it across automatically. I scouted around to see if someone else had already done it, unfortunately, not that I could find. The BCF has soooo many knobs, buttons and sliders that mapping them all to Live functions was more than I could face. However, here’s where the first downside appeared. Worth checking out.Īnyway, it was fairly easy to set up, and using Live’s MIDI Learn functionality, I was up and rolling very quickly. Incidentally, if you’re looking for one of these and you are in Australia, DJ Warehouse in Sydney has them at the best price I was able to find anywhere, by a big margin. For my purposes, this was plenty good enough, and the motorised faders were an added bonus, so the other day I finally picked one up. After much research I came across the BCF2000 by Behringer. I use Ableton Live, and had been eyeing off the LV2 from Faderfox rather lustfully, however it’s priced way outside my range, even second-hand on ebay. I’ve been looking at different MIDI control surfaces for awhile now.
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