After 10 years with Cakewalk

[AlexHall74]

Bastard scientists and dessert pimps. How in the hell are we expected to have any good, clean fun with the likes of them around for crying out loud!!!

I live in Northern Florida, U.S.A. and we are now in our "winter." It's actually the nicest time of year here. Highs of 78 or so, lows at night down to 28 or so (Fahrenehit for both of course.). We have no beaches here as we are pretty much surrounded by national forest, but the beach is about 2.5 hours drive. Far enough to be safe during a hurricane...

Must try out Ableton Live myself. I've been using Tracktion 2 for a few years and it sucks ass at MIDI controller implementation, unless of course you want to shell out for a Mackie Control, but I just can't pay that much for one.

[Old Vantaa Man]

It's not cold here in Scandinavia at all. Just rain, rain and more of it - thanks to climate change. There no snow in Siberia this year. Imagine that!

But back to the Mackie, Alex. The whole reason I dropped Sonar was that it wouldn't work with the Behringer BCR controller that I bought. At first I thought it was the Behringer and was about to send it back. After loads of research on the web I saw that blokes were using it extensively with Ableton. So I checked out the Live demo (fully functional app for 30 days) and it worked a treat. Bloody hell, even Daft Punk have TWO of them at the front of their "Pyramid" console thing:



You can run the BCR in Mackie emulation mode, scrub wheel the lot. It's also quite popular with Traktion users too, Al.

[AlexHall74]

Hmmmmm...must read more. The last time I tried to setup a MIDI controller in T2 it was a pain in the arse. But if the BCR has a Mackie Emulation mode that might help things a bit as the Mackie Controller is plaug'n'play with Tracktion. Will check that out, thanks for the tip Herr Vantaa. At this point I'm more interested in Ableton than Tracktion though, I need a change, and Ableton can be used as a DJ app, Tracktion can't!

[Old Vantaa Man]

It doesn't officially have a Mackie MC mode, but some guys have written a sysex that is.

[AlexHall74]

Do you know whwere this sysex is available? Is it freeware?

[Old Vantaa Man]

Yeah, it's freeware. There are too many links to paste here mate. Do a search for BCR2000 Mackie emulation Traktion.

[AlexHall74]

Got it. Thanks OVM!