Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:50:13AM -0000, rpcfender wrote:
> 
> > 2. Is the BCL sent raw over sysex into the BC2000, or is there some
> > intermediary?  Is BCL what you get back when you dump the presets?
> > (Ahh, answered myself, now that I have access to the files; the answer
> > is yes, correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
> Yes, but there are bugs in the BCs that prevent 'all' messages
> returning correctly.
> 
> It is better to treat BCL as a 'one direction' protocol like Midi.
> Any BCL you write should be saved to disk and not just stored on the
> BC.  It may not come back the same as you sent it.

That makes sense.  

It still seems unusual to me that full ascii text is sent as sys-ex,
rather than some of the usual binary gibberish, I mean, some encoded
form of the data.  Having experience with other sysex protocols, I
half expected that you write this BCL and run it through a translating
program that produces the actual sys-ex bytes that you send.  

Don't get me wrong, I'm *glad* to hear that's not the case!

Sending actual ascii text instead of a binary blob actually makes a
lot of sense.  As firmware is upgraded, it's not as easy to add
settings for new features into the sys-ex and still remain compatible
with old sys-ex files if you use a binary blob.

--> Steve
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