[linux-audio-user] Behringer BCA 2000 - has anyone tried it ?

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Tue Mar 1 05:02:31 EST 2005


Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> writes:

> Hallo,
> Joe Hartley hat gesagt: // Joe Hartley wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:18:13 -0500
>> Spencer Russell <Spencer.Russell at oberlin.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> > When a device has "infinite rotary encoders", what sort of midi
>> > message to they send? The encoders in my US428 just go from 1 to
>> > 127, then cycle back to one again.
>> 
>> They mean that there's no hard stop at either end.  When you turn to 
>> the left and get to zero, you can continue turning to the left infinitely,
>> though it won't affect the value.
>
> There are others that send relative data: 4 to the left, 12 to the
> right or so. For example the Pocket Dial supports this
> increment/decrement mode depending on the setup:
> http://www.doepfer.de/pd.htm
>
> I *heard* that the Behringer is "broken" in this regard in that it
> just stops to send data when one end is reached (that is, it stays at
> 0 or 127 without wrapping around at all). I'd be glad to hear if this
> is true or not,

Yes, it is, and I consider this behaviour the only sensible.
For me, the other dials (those that wrap) are broken, and
they are a serious accessibility hassle.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario



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