Nobody ?

The BCF 2000 is connected via USB to my computer. The weird thing is sometimes, it works at the 1st try (computer on, BCF on, FF UC on in this order) and sometimes, the fact of untick "Enable MIDI control" etc... as described above doesn't work.

I would like that it works all the time just by powering on devices without a special order.

We will have a thorough check for this one. Meanwhile, would it be possible for you to use the MIDI I/O sockets of the BCF instead of the USB port?

Just a reminder .

Argh, it worked well until about 10-15 days ago. I don't know if it comes from an update of W7 or with the last version of TM FX (drivers : 1.013, firmware : 115).

The way FF UC -> BCF2000 always works but I have to turn off BCF2000, hit F3 to valid other MIDI IN/OUT than BCF2000 in TM FX (I can see before turning off the BCF2000 that the "2 - BCF2000" ports are selected), click OK, turn ON the BCF2000, hit F3 to choose BCF2000 ports again and this 3 or 4 times before I can control the TM FX. Sometimes, I see in MIDI IN/OUT : "2 - BCF2000A" or "2 - BCF2000?" instead of just "2- BCF2000" but it can work with these.

I continue my monologue... I tried with Windows 7 drivers instead of Berhinger drivers but nothing changed fryingpan DeadHorse.

I loose the connection in both ways :

- selecting an other output than the Main output
- it works with the other output
- when I choose Main output again, nothing work in both ways but... not all times fryingpan fryingpan

Free Manolo!

I also had some issues with my BCF2000 connecting to my UFX.  Sounds similar, but not exactly the same, as Manolo's situation.  For unknown reasons, in the Settings panel sometimes the MIDI in or out would change when I rebooted, causing the connection to be partially broken.  It only did this when I first turned the computer on.  Once I had it set up right, it never switched while the computer was running.

For me, I found that turning the UFX on after the computer and BCF2000 seemed to fix the problem.  I see that Manolo already does this, so I don't have any more advice.  Just hope RME can look into it and help the guy out.

Well, I don't know if it was intended from RME or not but the last drivers (1.019) seem to fix the problem. The BCF2000 drivers are now in first position in the list of choice instead of last (I don't know it has an influence) and each day (= all days) I started my computer since this drivers, it worked at the first time I powered up BCF2000 and FFUC in this order.

That's COOL and I hope that it doesn't change.

Thanks.

Manolo, if you are interested you might try the new 0.97 RC1. It includes a reworked MIDI initialising and handling, and maybe (maybe) this also solves the problem that you have for so long time already (sorry for that).

http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic … 45&p=1

I have a very similar issue to this.  I'm using 3 BCF2000 units on a machine with Win7 64 SP1 and a Fireface 800.  All BCFs are connected via USB. The Fireface MIDI is unused, and I have an Maudio keystation 88 plugged in to this machine via USB.  I'm using the Behringer drivers, but experienced the same with class compliant drivers. 

The issue seems to be the BCFs change the way their names appear to Win7 (or Win7 renames the BCFs) from time to time. 

Correctly enumerated, the BCFs  should appear like this:
BCF2000
2- BCF2000
3- BCF2000

but will unpredictably appear as:
BCF2000
2- BCF2000?
3- BCF2000

(the question mark above can also be a ` symbol)

Alternately, one or more units just won't be there, and the USB light will be off on the corresponding BCF(s).

When this happens, the Behringer virtual LCDs and the DAW I'm using (Sonar 8.5 and PT10) will, of course be unable to find the control surface. 

The fix for this seems to be rebooting the incorrectly enumerated device while Win7 is up and running, and BEFORE launching the DAW (or presumably TotalMix).

My way of working now is to:

1. Boot windows
2. launch one of the Virtual LCD strips, right click it to see if the entries are correct.  If they are, launch DAW.

    --if not--

3. close the Virtual LCD strip (important, as rebooting the BCF with the V-LCD open will crash the V-LCD)
4. reboot the offending BCF(s)
5. relaunch the V-LCD, recheck. 
6. Repeat this until all listings are correct.

Unfortunately, moving from Sonar to PT requires a reboot of all the devices to change from MC-S to bhui modes.  This typically will cause the above scenario, and usually requires multiple BCF reboots to solve.  It's an absolute PITA, and I suspect the resolution is just to buy a multiple input MIDI to USB device and run the BCFs in MIDI mode (not sure if that works well or not--does anybody here successfully use BCFs this way?)