How many channels of control surface can I have?

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How many channels of control surface can I have?

Postby super newbie » Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:23 am

I am intrigued by SAC. How many channels of control surface and what type of control surfaces can be used?
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Re: How many channels of control surface can I have?

Postby RBIngraham » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:25 pm

super newbie wrote:I am intrigued by SAC. How many channels of control surface and what type of control surfaces can be used?


You can use up to 32 channels with behringer BCF2000 units. There are some new templates that in theory would allow control of every chnnel in SAC. But you would have to do some custom programming of your surface, if it allows it that is.
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Re: How many channels of control surface can I have?

Postby mattseymour » Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:40 am

When I did some messing about I couldn't get more than 2 bcf units to work properly. In theory it's possible but you need midi yoke software or midi merge boxes. Though I did get three working, it was erratic and unreliable.
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Re: How many channels of control surface can I have?

Postby RBIngraham » Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:09 am

mattseymour wrote:When I did some messing about I couldn't get more than 2 bcf units to work properly. In theory it's possible but you need midi yoke software or midi merge boxes. Though I did get three working, it was erratic and unreliable.


I use 3 units all the time. I merge their outputs to a single MIDI Yoke using MIDI-Ox. I then split SAC's output from another MIDI Yoke using MIDI-Ox to send it's output to all 3 units. It does have a bit of lag for example when you switch mixers, you can literally want as it updates the fader positions down the line. But I have not had any real issues except that I do occasionally get a SAC crash during tech rehearsals. I've never narrowed this down however. I suspect it has more to do with remotes than surfaces. But it does seem to happen when you change scenes. I tried to figure it out with Bob a ways back but never was able to reliably reproduce it... so I gave up.

I have run 4 units one time. I don't remember having any issues.

I have mostly used Bob's BCF template however. Especially since he thinned out the MIDI output data during recall of scenes with fades. Before that you couldn't fade any channel that was on the surface or it would all bog down.

But I have moved on from SAC now anyhow so it's amazing how quickly this stuff gets "foggy" in one's memory.... :roll:
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Re: How many channels of control surface can I have?

Postby mattseymour » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:30 pm

I must have done something wrong. Come to think of it one my fader packs may have been bad when I tried it.
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