Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "andi_k_81" <a-v-a-t-a-r@...> wrote:
> when I enter something into the Custom field with BCN44 Manager, the OK button gets grayed out as soon as I enter more than 2 letters. Why?

You need to enter a sequence of hexadecimal numbers (no "$" prefix or "h" suffix), separated by spaces.

> I'd love to set up a Button on the BCN44 to send an NRPN message, but the limitation of 11Bytes is 1 Byte too small :(

In principle you CAN put an NRPN message under "Custom": if you use "MIDI running status", the 4 Control Change messages required for an NRPN message don't take 12, but just 9 bytes!
The trick of "MIDI running status" is that you can leave out any status byte that is the same as the status byte of the previous MIDI message:

E.g.:

B0 63 01 (NRPN MSB)
-- 62 02 (NRPN LSB)
-- 06 03 (Data MSB)
-- 26 04 (Data LSB)

So in BCN44 Manager you would enter this as "B0 63 01 62 02 06 03 26 04".

HOWEVER (cf. the warning message on the BCN44 page of my website): in my experience, if you put channel messages (such as NRPN) in the BCN44's "custom" field, the BCN44 tends to produce spurious output. I don't know whether this is a problem in your specific case - feel free to experiment.

Another problem (probably even more serious in your case): in a "custom" definition you can state which of the bytes included is actually determined by the encoder's value (position), but (as far as I know) this can only involve a 7-bit value (i.e. from 0 to 127), not a 14-bit value. (If the BCN44 does allow this, I simply haven't discovered it yet...)

Mark.