Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

hehe, I had the same idea a little while ago, posted on the ableton
forum since I thought someone there might already have thought of it
and saved me some trouble. Didn't particularly seem to be the case.
Anyway I just came back to it while hacking my padkontrol, and was
looking at a load of sysex in Midi-ox last night, although I think I'm
going to steal someone else's idea and emulate parrts of the Tranzport
for that... anyways:

Google for the Emagic Control Manual - quick look and I can't find it
on web or my computer, must be on the old one, I dunno. If you cannot
find it anywhere, and I do, I imagine I can upload it to yousendit or
somewhere... anyway, the bit that I found interesting looked like this
(taken from Tranzport manual):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/stutter/Clipboard01.jpg

a lot like that, so it might be the same - how many different sysex to
ascii conversion methods can there be?
So, have a look at that, and set up midi-ox or some other midi monitor
to capture the outgoing midi from your Mackie-capable host, and see if
the sysex blocks translate into words. 

Also look up husker-vu and lc xmu - both prove that the display
amongst other things are possible (although you say you've seen those
already, so maybe you don't want to look those up).

I'll have a look for that manual later on tonight.

Matthew


--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "goyya76" <goyya76@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> i'd like to understand the sysex that are sent to the LCD emulation
> (like huskervu), most of all when in VST inserts mode....my idea would
> be to see if it's possible to associate other actions to the host
output. 
> 
> An example: BCR 2000 in MCU emulation mode; i switch to insert editing
> mode, i choose insert 2, the virtual display updates showing the name
> of the FX, the on/off status etc - all this happens via sysex - if i
> send this sysex string to a suitable app (a modular host like Usine)
> and i'm able to grab the name of the FX among this sysex string (here
> comes the question), i could associate a different program change to
> each FX name - sending the program change to the BCR, i could
> automatically associate the correct preset to each FX...
> 
> i suppose something like this is the basic principle on which
> Novation's Automap is based, ie using the feedback from the host to
> change the controller assignement accordingly - i have a feeling we
> could so something similar on our BCF/BCR....
> 
> any hint on where to look to interpret the host feedback?? i've seen
> two or three display emulation in the files section, and maybe there's
> someone who coded them or helped to code or whatever...  
> 
> Ciao,
> Goyya
>