Re: [LAU] control surfaces

On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Kelly Hirai wrote:

> hey linux audio users,
> about a year ago i purchased the korg nanokontrol one when they were
> dumping them to make room for the nanokontrol II. the last month i'm
> finally getting to using it for some csound live processing. but im
> beginning to find shortcomings. for one i could use more knobs. also
> 14bits of resolution would be nice. finally it would be nice if when i
> reassign the knobs it would be nice to be able start from the values
> they are operating on.
>
> so im looking into the bcr-2000-b by behringer. any linux users had any
> experience with this device? any other device suggestions for a budget
> minded music coder?

Lots of rotary encoders, looks good. I don't have one. The spec does say
something like 7 bits for the controllers but 14 bit if you hold down an
alt key. As in I think you can get the MS 7 bits by turning and the works
by holding down one of the switches. My advice is to read the manual:
http://www.behringer.com/assets/BCF2000_BCR2000_M_EN.pdf
Then go over to your local music store and ask to try one out. Plug it
into your laptop and try things. This is the way I do things... and I
don't always buy either :)

If you want really cheap :) I have a program that will allow you to have
a jack MIDI port from a 10* key computer keyboard (USB). I have seen these
for $3 in the local dollar store (I bought three). There is code to use
two keys as up/down keys to fake an encoder or pitch control. I used the
key rep to go up/down by 2s or 10s. I was able to fake a Mackie control
surface (five channels not 8 though). My next trick will be to hook up a
real encoder to two of the keys... After we clean up from the small flood
we had :( The program is not complete, comes as src and has no
./configure so you would have to figure out what libs you need. (I think
the only thing I added was libjack-jackd2-dev over the normal libc stuff)
It is based on actkbd (and can be used as such even with the mods I have
done).

Docs are not there yet :( but follow the same path as the original.

--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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