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This has been thrown together, so there could well be updates. You will find all the screenshots and a copy of this document as an attachment (below).

I have bitten the bullet, and gone for a setup with two laptops, one at the desk position, and one remote, connected by a VPN, and running rtpMIDI for any midi that I need to transfer between the laptops. I am using VLC as a server for the headphone monitor from the desk to the remote laptop. The Mac version of rtpMIDI truncates NRPN ...

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I have ordered some powerline ethernet CPL adapters.
It took me a while to remember my setup for testing for BCF Sysex commands. It was pretty simple. Just put the BCF in Mode 4 and connect output “A” to another midi device and then you can record just the sysex that the BCF is receiving.
So the command for “SEND ...

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If I feed the NRPN back to the BCF then its faders will not move as they are sending sysex ((see the bit you jumped!)) and don’t recognise NRPN. Great? But this feature is not necessary, as my chosen faders are only being moved by the BCF (FOH by me, monitors by the Band), and as I change pages on the BCF (ch1-ch8 >>> ...

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I am sure there are a number of engineers like myself, with minimal knowledge of Midi, that have already solved all of the numerous problems that present themselves when trying to remote control any digital desk. Still, I could not work it out so I bought a Yamaha 01v96 and a Behringer BCF2000 and a Belkin USB Network Hub so ...

Our monitor guru, Dan, came up with a great way to combat the interference that drummers often get when playing their kit.

Any experienced IEM monitor engineer knows that often you can get RF "hash" from playing the hi-hats on a drum kit. The metal against metal must produce some sort of interference. I've never really studied it, but I've defintely heard it and heard many drummers complain about it.

Well, Dan now does his RF scan (with the new Sennheiser 2000 series ...