Behringer BCF2000 driver for MAonPC
This driver was done by "MegaTech" back in 2006 and since then a lot of people have asked him for it on the ma-share.net.
Now its here with some of his explanations below. Please if you have experiences and additions to this, write them here.
link: dissertations(dead link !!!)
This is the last driver I made. I test it in my spanish sp3 windows with the 5920 version of MAonPC and it works for me (also it seems to work with the v6 versions of onPC). The bad news are that I have no idea it it works with vista or windows 7.
Here are some old notes that maybe need some update (sorry):
- You must to install the last firmware inside your behringer surface. I think 1.10 was the last release, so if you see this number in the beheringer display when you turn on the unit you dont need this update.
- You must to send the 4 presets I done to the 4 first presets of the control surface with the special software of behringer (or other midi app like MidiOX). The special software of behringer need a specific version of java (JRE 1.4.2_05 or below). If you use MidiOX you must to press 2 times the <store> key in the behringer after recieving every preset. (the recieved preset is stored into a "temporary memory" so to not to loose it you must to act this way)
- You must to run MAonPC and wait the show is loaded.
- Then execute my app, select BCF2000 as input and output in the shown screen and then "you got it". If an error screen appears, let me know by email.
- If you change the show file on the fly in the OnPC, the connection can be lost.
- Do not use the midi in feature included in MAonPC at all to connect to the behringer.
- You can use the included midi features in the onPC with other midi controllers connected in your pc in the onPC's traditional way.
- To use the buttons in the behringer you must to enable the keyboard shortcuts. When you press a button in the Behringer surface, my software takes this midi info and convert it as an standard pc keyboard key. Also it ensures the MAonPc window will be the active window by positioning it on the top.
- So let the little button enabled in the top right corner on the MAonPC to use the rest of functions. The only thing is that you must to disable it to write a text but is the little price we must to pay.
(Try to press a key in the pc's keyboard.... if it works with your pc's keyboard must to work with Behringer stuff. There is a known bug from onPc that is the shortcut over a flash executor, as my driver emulates the shortcut the flash will not work as expected. I hope grandMA coders can fix this someday cause I dont know how).
Take a look at the picture inside zip to know more.
Any comments are welcome, even I have not too much time by now to make addons to this code.
cheers from spain
