Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Thanks to all replies and suggestions so far.


--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Cappellini" <cappy2112@...> 
wrote:
> Probably- the Behringer BCR software sucks though and you only have
> limited sysex capability in the BCR itself.
> Once you send the command, what are you going to do with the patch
> data? You cant save it in the BCR, you cant edit it.
> 
> You might as well use a program that will let you save it on your
> computer, Midiox is free and full featured, but if you want to edit
> the Pulse patches, you'll need a dedicated editor, or just edit the
> bytes by hand


Ok, the original Behringer BCR software might suck, but who uses it 
in the age of BC Manager?

If possible I would try to use the combination of BC Manager + MIDI-
OX only. For editing the sounds I don't need any (additional) 
software, I tweak anyway the Pulse sounds all the time on the BCR2000 
and if I get some "Aha" or "Wow" feeling while tweaking (e.g. in the 
context of the rest of the music) I should have the option to save 
this preset/sound on my computer for later reuse. This is mostly true 
for special bass sounds which should keep more or less constant. This 
would mean I should also be able to send this sound parameters back 
from my computer to Waldorf Pulse again. (Maybe again using MIDI-OX?)

What I don't want is having to start some bigger host just to program 
and save sounds for Waldorf Pulse. The sound programming process 
should be as independent as possible from the normal music 
composition process. I came thanks to MIDI-OX, BC Manager and the 
generous Waldorf Pulse .syx creator for BCR2000, DocT, quite far, 
only the saving of the tweaked + liked sounds is missing to have a 
"perfect" sound programming environment. I just love the sounds 
coming out of the Pulse! Having direct access to many parameters 
immediately with BCR2000 is just a bomb!

How do other people work if they use the combination hardware 
synthesizer + BCR2000? Which tools are you using? (Are you using some 
synthesizer specific sysex tools or some general software which can 
deal with 100s of synthesizers which you don't have anyway?)

My plan is to look more in detail to MIDI-OX and it's sysex handling 
features, extracting the right dump request information from the 
Waldorf Pulse manual, getting it work for one sound, testing it if 
the sound is saved really 100% correctly, then if everything is ok, 
trying to automate everything midi + key + menu use with the 
automation tool AutoHotkey (for Windows XP), writing a simple summary 
what I did to make it work, packing everything into a zip and sharing 
in the files directory of this yahoo group.

Kind regards,
Tony