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Workthrough on how to enable Sonar’s EQ.

If not already on view you’ll need to edit your display in track view,

Look in following image,

Click white triangle on ‘Display’ to bring up menu,

Add a tick next to ‘Eq’

You should now be able to see an extended ‘Track’ strip with the EQ at the top just above ‘FX bin’

You can now enable your Eq,

Click the Band Semi Circle Thing and it will light up green.

By double clicking on the area shown in the image below you will bring up Sonars built in EQ.

You can then enable each band.

Behringer BCF2000 and Sonar 7 setup Pt 1 – Previous Article on how to setup Behringer BCF2000 midi controller and use it with Sonar 7.

This article deals with how to use the device in a bit more detail.

I’m going to go slow with this as I’m just getting to grips with it myself.

So let’s start simple.

You’ll already be familiar with faders and rotaries so let’s leave them for now and discuss the ‘function‘ buttons.

(Click on images to enlage)

Let’s look at the middle set of buttons:

The buttons above dictate which part of Sonar we can control.

A = Equalizer – This mode has 3 states -> E1, E1. and F1. (Press button to bring up each state.)

B = Track – This mode has 2 states – Tr and Tr. (Press button to bring up each state.)

C = Pan – This mode has  2 states – Pn and Pn. (Press button to bring up each state.)

D = Send – This mode has 2 states SE and SE. (Press button to bring up each state)

It’s worth running through all the different modes and having a look to see what’s what rather than me tell you how to work everything.

Personally I prefer working in Tr which is the first state in Track mode.

If you press the button twice it changes to ‘Tr.’

Note the period(full stop) after ‘Tr’ it occurs in all modes to differentiate between different states of control.

in ‘Tr ‘ mode you can control Sliders and Rotaries much the same as a standard mixeing desk.

Some people prefer using Pan mode.

Again it’s down to personal preference and how you intend to work.

Equalizer mode is set up to use Sonar’s built in EQ which you have to enable to be able to control.

To enable Sonar’s EQ,

If not already on view you’ll need to edit your display in track view,

Look in following image,

Click white triangle on ‘Display’ to bring up menu,

Add a tick next to ‘Eq’

You should now be able to see an extended ‘Track’ strip with the EQ at the top just above ‘FX bin’

You can now enable your Eq,

Click the Band Semi Circle Thing and it will light up green.

By double clicking on the area shown in the image below you will bring up Sonars built in EQ.

You can then enable each band, unfortunately in this mode The BCF2000 can only control 4 Bands and not the 6 on view.

Have a look at the above and find Shift 1 on your device

Using a combination of buttons we can control more of Sonar including Plugins.

Shift 1 + A = Dynamics(compressor) – This mode has 2 states -> D1 and D1.

Shift 1 + B = Plugins – This mode has 2 states – P1and P1.

In the next article I’ll go into more depth about Plugins and Dynamics mode as these require some more button presses and a fair bit of editing of your mackiecontrol.ini file.

In the meantime get comfortable with messing around in each of the modes.

Guide on how to setup Behringer BCF2000 with Sonar 7.

Just got this device for £50 from ebay and got to say it’s a cool bit of kit, but the setup can be quite painful.

Below is a walkthrough on how to get up and running with Sonar 7.

As I’m new to this device I’m going to go through each function in the order I approach them.

The follow on guides to this post will be in chapter form.

That way you can search this site for help with a specific function.

Below are some links to other sites and forums where I’ve found help and people I think it would be approriate to thank.

This guide is for USB setup only

First go to Behringer to download drivers and software.

You’ll need,

USB MIDI DRIVER (V1.2.1.3)

Follow the following in order.

Step 1.

Without connecting device to pc turn on whilst holding down button 4

(if you click images you’ll get larger view)

From the picture above you’ll see that in the LCD screen ‘NCSo’ image comes up.

This from what I can gather indicates Mackie Control under Sonar but that’s a guess.

Step 2.

Install driver (without connecting device!)

When software asks plug in your devices USB cable to the PC and wait.

Once the software installs device it will ask to restart system.

Step 3.

Start up Sonar and navigate to-> Options – Midi Devices

If you’re familiar with this then choose behringer device.

My setup shows three devices for input so I chose number 1.

Do this for output also.

(I will get screen shots for this as soon as I can)

Now navigate to -> Options – Controllers/Surfaces

This box will appear

Click this icon

This will give you a choice,

Under Controller/Surface choose -> Mackie Control

Input Port -> Behringer 1

Output Port -> Behringer 1

(again I’ll add more pictures when I can)

Before you start press the button marked ‘B‘

This will put the Behringer in ‘Track‘ mode and give you control of tracks 1-8.

You’re Behringer should now be in control of Sonars ‘Volume’ and ‘Pan’ faders and rotaries.

Using the preset buttons you can scroll through 8 banks of tracks at a time.

Have a mess around and take one thing at a time.

I’ll be posting some more guides as I go and will update this post with links along the way.

Links and Thanks:

Video guides courtesy of Blades85

Sonar Mackie Control Guide by FastBikerBoy

A post by Jesse G @ Sonar forums which are maybe a little more advanced but show the full potential of this device.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=879930&mpage=1

With another post by FastBikerBoy following the same ideas,

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=1928916&mpage=1#1928916

I’d like to thank these three guys for posting online and hope they see.

Thanks boys.

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