Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

I just wrote a huge reply to this and lost it before posting!
Alas, I can't bring myself to do it again....
I am not sure if you are still considering a mackie preset in your
control schema.

Here are my reasons for using a mackie.

http://shoshin.110mb.com/genmce/about/why/why%20make%20it.htm

There are two types of mackie bacially the MCU(mackie control
universal) and the Mackie control XT. They made is so you could have
more than 8 tracks on physical controls that would work together.
So MCU + XT gets you 16 tracks control.
Now the MCU output and XT output are the same. Your DAW will know the
the difference. 

I can't even begin to remember the extent of my lost reply...
15 mins of life just gone.

Best of luck to you.
You are in uncharted waters (by me), sir.

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "sexontony" <sexontony@...> wrote:
>
> One stupid question:
> 
> If 1 BCR2000 preset can get 1 Mackie Controller surface, can we get 
> out of 6 BCR2000 presets 6 "partially independent" Mackie Controller 
> surfaces? (Or isn't it easy to make those Mackie surfaces independent 
> of each other?)
> 
> "Partially independent" could mean:
> -  transport functions would be still the same
> -  e.g. one could give each Mackie Control a set of 8 tracks and 
> instead of using the bank switching method one could switch the 6 
> presets (having the advantage that you could directly jump to any of 
> these 8 track sets, like 8 tracks for final output channels, another 
> 8 tracks for drums submixing channels, another 8 tracks for vocals 
> submixing channels...)?
> 
> 6 * 8 = 48 tracks/channels should be enough for many applications. So 
> e.g. if you would want to edit the vocals, one note on event, and you 
> would have your 8 vocal tracks in front of you, allowing very fast 
> switching among "logical channel groups". Here some ideas/examples 
> for logical channel groups:
> 
> 1.  drums
> 2.  bass
> 3.  vocals
> 4.  keys
> 5.  guitars
> 
> So my idea is mainly not sticking just with one single preset if we 
> can also use multiple of them parallely if we can give each of them 
> useful jobs to do/control.
> 
> > Mackie mode is very powerful - in fact, I have wasted the last year
> > life thinking about it.  
> 
> Has the Mackie mode also any disadvantages or is this the maximum end 
> of high-end controlling logic? I am also Ableton Live user, what 
> else?  :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tony
>