So what does this thing do? Right now, absolutely nothing. It’s a Behringer BCF2000 “control surface.” It sounded like a good idea now that I’m doing a bit of audio work. This thing looks like a mixing board and pushing faders is a helluva lot easier than adjusting controls on a screen with a mouse.
Trouble is, everything on this console can be programmed to do anything. That means it must be programmed before it does anything. The faders are motorized and I did get them to play back me pushing them up and down while recording in a MIDI program. That was really cool to watch! The little knobs moved up and down like little bugs having a race, but I couldn’t make that program control anything. Oh well, once I learn to program it, it will save me a lot of effort. It would have been nice to have it do something right out of the box so I could play with it tonight.
That faux oak stand is another tale. I picked it up at Staples after passing one over at Best Buy that cost $80. I found one Staples for $60, but the clerk helping me out led me over to the closeout section where they had this one for a measly ten bucks. It took nearly two hours to put together, but it was a pretty good deal.
While I was at Staples, I somehow remembered that I was out of staples for my stapler, so maybe I should pick up some of those too. What a nightmare! Every fookin box in the store says “Staples” on it in big bright letters. That’s what you call a false positive. Even in the stapler section they had items that were not staples that came in boxes that looked like a box staples would come in. I finally found the ones I was looking for. They were made by Swingline.
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