10 Sep
2014
10 Sep
'14
2:18 a.m.
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