mikey9206 wrote:i see, i just really love the use of moving fadars that i can control with my fingers...no matter how advanced computers get, there is no match for our own hands
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(i thought the behringer bcf 2000 was an audio desk?)
anyway, thanks for the advice.
p.s. do you use a usb to xlr from the behringer desk, to the input of the daslight box? and this behringer desk can be hooked up to daslight so i can send the preset scenes to it right?
The Behringer BCF2000 is a Midi control desk, it connects to your computer via USB. It can connect via MIDI cables if need to or if you are using other MIDI control surfaces and linking them together, for example a keboard player could be linked in as well and the keyboard player could trigger scenes as well. You then in DVC2 right click a scene (in Live) and select Link with control, click in the MIDI input box and then press a button on the BCF2000 it then records the correct MIDI note or command into DVC2. So now when you press the button on the BCF2000 it will start/stop that scene.
If you right click a scene (in Live) and select Speed ON you will get a slider in the scene which controls the speed the scene runs at. You can then right click that slider and select Speed Midi Link now move a fader on the BCF2000 and it records the correct values.
Now you can control the speed of that scene with the fader on the BCF2000. Take a look here
http://www.behringer.de/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx gives prices as well but you can get it alot cheaper if you hunt around. I bought mine about 2 years ago for about £130.
One thing to bear in mind even though the BCF2000 has motorised faders DVC2 does not send values back to it, so if you change a slider in DVC2 it does not replicate back on the BCF2000. I have not found it to be a problem, but sure would be nice if it did.
Usng the Enttec wings and the MidiWing program works in a similar way, but are far more expensive and you need a ethernet hub if you are using more than one and/or on a network as well.
As said previously you can launch scenes from a DMX desk but it is a bit hit and miss with faders as it relies on an exact value and you cannot control the speed of the scene using DMX IN. OK if the desk has start buttons as they will issue a single value assuming they can be mapped to a DMX channel/value, but the faders are really redundant, good if you want to control "house" lights from a fader or PAR Cans that are not used in scenes.