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B-CONTROL
AUDIO
BCA2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 5
1.1 Before you get started ................................................... 5
1.1.1 Shipment ............................................................... 5
1.1.2 Initial operation ...................................................... 5
1.1.3 Online registration ................................................ 5
1.2 System requirements ..................................................... 5
1.2.1 Outline of functions for High-Speed USB ..............
(USB 2.0) .............................................................. 5
1.2.2 Outline of functions for Full-Speed USB .............. 5
2. INSTALLATION ........................................................... 6
2.1 Hardware connection/driver installation ........................ 6
2.2 Control panel software .................................................. 6
3. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS ............. 8
3.1 Control surface ............................................................... 8
3.1.1 Input section ......................................................... 8
3.1.2 Main/Monitor section ............................................ 9
3.1.3 Dynamics section ................................................. 9
3.2 The rear panel .............................................................. 10
4. AUDIO ROUTING ...................................................... 11
4.1 Input routing .................................................................. 11
4.2 Output routing ............................................................... 12
4.2.1 Output routing in ADAT
®
mode ........................... 12
4.2.2 Output routing in 2-CHANNEL mode .................. 13
4.3 First steps with the B-CONTROL ................................. 13
5. APPLICATIONS ........................................................ 14
5.1 Mobile studio ................................................................. 14
5.2 Project studio ................................................................ 15
5.3 Professional studio ....................................................... 16
5.4 Basis recording session .............................................. 17
5.5 Multi-channel recording with 5.1 surround monitoring 18
6. CONNECTIONS AND FORMATS ............................... 20
6.1 Glossary ....................................................................... 20
6.2 Audio connections ....................................................... 22
6.3 Digital inputs and outputs ............................................. 22
6.4 MIDI connectors ............................................................ 23
7. SPECIFICATIONS ..................................................... 23
8. WARRANTY .............................................................. 24
FCC COMPLIANCE INFORMATION .............................. 25
Dear Customer,
welcome to the team of
BEHRINGER users, and
thank you very much for
expressing your confi-
dence in us by purchas-
ing the B-CONTROL.
Writing this foreword
for you gives me great
pleasure, because it
represents the culmi-
nation of many months of
hard work delivered by
our engineering team to
achieve a very ambitious
goal: to deliver an
outstanding USB audio/
MIDI control interface,
whose extremely flexible
connections let it assume
the central control role in almost any computer studio. The task
of designing our new B-CONTROL certainly meant a great deal
of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the
discerning computer user and musician. Meeting your
expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was
fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people
together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated
in such a project can be proud of what theyve achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because
you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team.
With your highly competent suggestions for new products youve
made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making
it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality
as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely
reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to
your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we manage to produce such high-
quality equipment at such unbelievably low prices. The answer
is quite simple: its you, our customers! Many satisfied customers
mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing
terms for components, etc. Isnt it only fair to pass this benefit on
to you? Because we know that your success is our success
too!
I would like to thank all of you who have made the B-CONTROL
possible. You have all made your own personal contributions,
from the developers to the many other employees at this company,
and to you, the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, its been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
FOREWORD
