----- Original Message -----From: EleaSent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:27 AMSubject: RE: [bc2000] smoother pots and faders?
I think again this has more to do with midi data: for instante, I have configured as equalizers sets of 3 rotaries.
Rot 1=Cut&Boost (press=reset to 0)
Rot 2=Freq selector (press=reset to a certain freq, depending on the eq band)
Rot 3=Bandwidth (Q) (press=reset to 0)
Now, for the Cut&Boost or the Bandwidth controls Im quite happy with standard resolution, but for the Freq selector control, what you guys describe was happening: the resolution of the pot wouldn´t let me select certain frequencies and would jump through them more than any other thing. What I did was to configure THAT pot as a 14bit pot and give it a resolution of 20000 steps instead of the 127 that a standard midi pot resolution has. I works like a charm now.
To use a pot for a filter sweep, etc, you will have to adjust the relation between steps to get the right Feeling under your hand.
The BCF/BCR2000 have to be heavily configured to get them to be as great as there are (because believe me, they are great units), but again, for the price you pay I find it worth spending some days adjusting it to work the way I want it to work, for what I want it to work. Another option is also using any of the emulation modes. Mackie emulation works great for some things.
Cheers
Elea
De: bc2000@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bc2000@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de Erik Bowen
Enviado el: martes, 16 de enero de 2007 20:50
Para: bc2000@yahoogroups.com
Asunto: Re: [bc2000] smoother pots and faders?
Yep, another problem, which I think arises from the same problem mentioned in your last email. If you move the fader/pot slowly, it will probably sound a lot closer to how it sounds when you move your mouse slowly, than the difference between how it sounds when you move both fast.
It's pretty sad, because even less expensive MIDI controllers have much more responsive faders/pots than those on my BCF2000. Behringer really had its head up its ass on this one, imo... motorized faders and LED lit rotaries are a great idea, but they're almost useless if they're not responsive.
----- Original Message -----
From: the19thbear
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: [bc2000] smoother pots and faders?
another question, is it possible to get the pots and faders to react
more smoothly? sometimes there is a big difference when i control a
synth filter with the mouse and then with the bcf2000.... the mouse
sounds alot more smooth!
thanks
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Re: [bc2000] smoother pots and faders?
2007-01-17 by Erik Bowen
You're right that audio driver/sound card latency
doesn't affect MIDI latency... I just tested and what you said is true. I
was mixed up.
But...
Try this experiment. Turn Rot 2 back and
forth very fast, while playing a note. When I move my hand fast
enough in a similar setup, the audio does not keep up with my hand
movement. However, under the same conditions, if I use the midi control
sliders on my kurzweil keyboard controller to control the same control, I can
move my hand as fast as I want, and the audio follows my hand movements
perfectly.
It's as if the the BC2000 reads the fader/knob
position less frequently (in time) than my keyboard does for its sliders.
This is what I meant when I was talking about
"unresponsiveness" and "choppyness" earlier.