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1. Baroni says:

   July 8, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   thanks a lot for this tutorial. works perfect!
2. Gahlord says:

   July 24, 2007 at 11:56 am

   Glad you liked it. It was fun to do and I hope to do more as I learn about it.
3. Evan says:

   October 20, 2007 at 4:46 am

   Hi. Finding this is an indication of how frustrating it is to set up the BCF. I bought one last year to use with Final Cut. It did a little jerk or two and that’s about as far as I got in linking it. Ok, I’m talking about FCP instead of Logic, but the frustration level is the same I’m sure. I spent days playing around and finally gave up. Now having read your simple steps, and the fact that I just upgraded to FCP studio 2, gives me renewed energy to try again. So now to the point, have you bumped into anyone who has any insights into FCP on the BCF? I’m not at my fcp system right now so this might be a bit premature. The most trouble I’ve had is in the mapping, so hard to figure out how to do it. What are the magic codes for different fcp functions, etc. Anyway thanks for the post.
4. Gahlord says:

   October 20, 2007 at 8:40 pm

   Hey Evan,

   I use a bit of FCP too. How do you want to use the BCF with Final Cut? Maybe we can work together and make a sweet tutorial on this?

   There’s all kinds of magic codes. The first step is to figure out what you want the thing to do for you, what hardware knobs do you wish you had at hand. Then figure it out how to make the hardware do your bidding. Post back and I’d be glad to help work out a tutorial for FCP as well (because it will help me in my animation editing too!)
5. Evan says:

   October 21, 2007 at 9:01 am

   You do animation? That’s what I do! That and visual fx. Not sure I have the time to work this out with you. Not that I don’t want to, it’s just that that’s why I was looking for a tutorial in the first place. I just don’t have time to wonk around with it too much. But I’d certainly be willing to be the guinea pig if that would help.
   To answer your question, as a minimum I want to use the sliders for the sound mix. If I remember correctly I think I kinda sorta got that working. Not sure. Then for the knobs I was hoping to experiment a bit to see how I could make them useful. I have a bella editing keyboard and so most shortcuts are already there. To be honest a lot of the excitement in using the BCF is more of a geeky cool thing that I would hope would work into an efficiency thing once I got to know the ins and outs.
6. Roman says:

   October 23, 2007 at 10:54 am

   Hi Evan and Gahlord,

   I am really glad I found your messages on the web… I just bought a bcf2000 for use with FCP, and am totally stuck with getting it to work! I would VERY MUCH appreciate kind of a tutorial for setting up the bcf2000 with FCP! Any chance you will be able to do this in the near future?

   Thanks for your help!
7. Jason Bussell says:

   December 6, 2007 at 5:20 pm

   Have you any experience with logic studio? I set my BCF 2000 up as a LC controller (hitting the “par” button while powering up,) but when I scan for devices, logic does not find the bcf2000. It has presets for roland, yamaha, and mackie models, but does not recognize the bcf. It works somewhat. The faders fly to reflect the automation in logic, but moving the faders does not alter the automation. I can turn down the volume, but at the next node, the fader will jump back up to its original position. It reads automation but does not write it, even in touch or latch mode. I can’t believe that logic 7 would recognize the bcf but not logic 8. Do you think I’m missing something?
8. Gahlord says:

   December 9, 2007 at 8:28 pm

   Hey friends,

   Sorry that I haven’t had time to work the BCF in FCP or Logic Pro.

   Jason:
   I don’t have a copy of Logic Pro so, Jason I don’t think I can help you much right now. But Maybe I’ll work up some haptics stuff in the future. I had a similar problem when I was first testing the BCF2000 with Logic Express. I bet with some restart and all that you’ll be fine. Please let me know if not. I would like to upgrade to the next version of Logic (and cross-upgrade to Logic Pro so when I get the cash I’ll do a revamp of the tutorial and let you know. But meanwhile, I’m sure it’s possible.

   FCP users:
   I’ll give that a try when I get to work on my upcoming animation project. If you all let me know what you’d like to map the machine to, then I’ll be able to make a better BCF-as-FCP controller article. Otherwise I’ll just write what I want to.
9. bart says:

   February 6, 2008 at 2:28 pm

   Hi,

   nice tutorial, but maybe I’m too stupid to understand it. It doesn’t work for me. First of all. When I press button nr 3 on the first row and push the ON button … nothing happens. No LC mode, only P- 1. That’s it. Maybe that has something to do with my firmware, but I can’t seem to find out which version I have. I downloaded and opened every support download on their website but most of them are XP only and the edit doesn’t seem to have a firmware upgrade function. So upgrading to a possible higher firmware is a task too difficult for me. Can’t seem to find any support for mac on their website.
   But the BCF is recognized by my computer in the audio/midi application so there is a connection with my Mac. (A MacPro with 5Gb Ram, so that couldn’t be the problem.)
   Okay, let’s try the >controller surfaces>setup. I can’t seem to find a Behringer controller in there. OK that’s possible. So it uses the “motormix” instead. But nothing happens when I try to map it. Let’s try the Mackie Logic Controller then? No, also dead german crap on my table, but no working Behringer.
   I know I am doing something wrong here, because it seems to work on your Macs, but what? Maybe you can help me? Can you find the flaws in my trial and error process?
   I am a producer in a studio for quite some time now, but this is the first time I try to use a controller surface.
   Doesn’t it work with Logic Pro (8) on a mac? Based on their website it should work with mac. Is it the upgrade to OSX10.5 leopard? Is that the problem? What am I missing here?
   Thanx for any help you can provide.
10. Gahlord says:

    February 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Hi Bart,

    Sorry I haven’t tried this process out on 10.5 yet (no intel boxes in my studio yet, sadly). But I will revisit my process again just to be sure I have it perfect correct. There may be differences in our versions of Logic as well (I am using Express) but I doubt that’s it.

    I’ll try and get some pictures as well. I know I had the exact problem you are describing when I first started (which is what inspired me to write this post in the first place).

    Thanks for stopping by.
11. Andreas says:

    July 3, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Thanks for your tutorial !
    I am currently working in Logic Pro 8 and recently got a Behringer BCR 2000, could you please send me the link for the appropriate tutorial, I know you mention you’re providing a link for it, but I just can’t see it anywhere !!!
    Cheers
12. Sorin says:

    November 30, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Hi guys, just bought a BCF2000 for my Mac and Logic 8 today. As it was pointed out, the manual is really crap, it got me nowhere. Thank god I found sites like this one to help me out. Cheers. So I’ve followed all the steps (tried this 6-7 times already) and something is not working here… I get the LC message in the BCF display (Logic Control) but when I go to AUDIO/MIDI Application the BCF2000 icon is all grey, meaning not active. Hmm… At least it’s there right? Another weird thing is that my USB lights on the BCF are not lit up, which is weird because I’m only connected to my Mac via USB. Instead the MIDI A & B lights flash when I move a fader. It’s as if it thinks I’m in MIDI mode but I’m not, I only want to control it via USB. Lastly, I don’t see any BEHRINGER kind of name in my Logic >File>Preferences>Control Surfaces>Setup. Anybody has any ideas? I know this thing can work. Thanks in advance for anybody’s help…

    Peace from Montreal
    Sorin