Behringer BCD2000 Release date!!!

For those interested, my friend works at Guitar Center and his Behringer Rep told him the BCD2000 now has an official release date of 09-05-05. He said Behringer is shipping these and they will arrive on the 1st to shops and some may start to sell it on that date but September 5th is the official release date.

 

i've been waiting for this thing for a while now. When i called Behringer last week and talked to their rep, he had no idea when it will ship. We should post reviews of this device when we get it. - In the meantime i'll be chillin at Guitar center waiting for it to arrive.

 

Yes, but can anyone answer my question?

Is the BCD2000 going to have an internal sound card?

24 people have looked at my thread, somebody could have at least attempted to help.

 

you download the the manual from Bheringer Product page.

http://www.behringer.com/BCD2000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

This should help answer all your questions.

Hope this helps.

 

In short: yes.

 

Tuur, is that in response to my question?

I'm guessing that on page 3 of the manual at the second 'bullet' where it says "Full-speed USB 4-channel audio interface plus high-resolution 24 bit A/D and D/A converters" is the answer I'm looking for?

I had taken a peak at the manual before, but as I mentioned in my thread... I'm not partiularly up on all the technical terms yet. I take it that the '4-channel audio interface' is the terminology used to refer to an onboard sound card?

I'm starting to understand now. So if that really IS the case, then I will wait another week and I will be the first in line in my town to be buying one of these bad boys!

 

Yes, it's an onboard 4-channel card that defaults channels 1-2 to the L-R audio output to the mixer and channels 3-4 to the headphones. I just read the manual and I have to say I'm very interested in this thing--it seems to be what I wish the faderfox had evolved to, and is very logically put together. Traktor should work seamlessly with it.

My one reservation is the quality of the DA converters on the soundcard. Behringer doesn't have the best reputation in the world. But if the soundcard quality is good, and the build quality of the unit is good, I'll probably end up buying this.

 

so this isn't a hardware mixer right?..
is it Traktor - compatible ?
very good price too..

about the DA converters.....nothing's perfect....how bad can it be?

 

Reading the ad on the Behringer site (much less the downloadable manual) will tell you everything you need to know.

 

this sounds so perfect for a mp3-digital mixing solution , that i'm trying to find where is the flaw..

 

G, I agree... I don't see anything short of excellent with this controller.

I'm gonna showcase my un-technical newness again:

What exactly are A/D and D/A converters, in simple terms?

 

A/D Analog Signal to Digital Signal... An input to your computer
D/A Digital to Analog An oupur from your computer.

Ie. converts a voltage signal into a binary number equivalent (16 Bits for CD quality and MP3). The A/D samples an analog source at a measured steps, or frequency. You need twice the highest frequency of the analog source to sample the voltage changes without noticable distortion, ie Audio signals are up to 22000Hz, and twice that is 44000Hz which is why CDs are 44100Hz. (This is known as the Nyquist rate).

 

Hopefully none, but I am concerned about their drivers. The Behringer BCA2000 USB audio interface didn't have very good drivers when it was first released. Supposedly the newer drivers are better but still not great.

-Shehryar

 

i a lot of things the problem of behringer is the quality of their products, i had some and they always broke easy, or the components were bad quality, cheap plastic etc etc etc.

 

This thing already has a street price of $149, and I know it sounds odd, but that's low enough to make me hesitate from buying it outright. Build quality & AD/DA converters are gonna be the issue, I think, and I'll want to get my hands on a unit at Guitar Center or something before buying.

But if it's a nice piece of kit, I'll be the first to plonk down the bucks, cuz the layout & functionality are sweet.

 

I wish I felt better about Behringer's corporate ethics, because it does look like a nice product design.

Maybe Mackie should "borrow" the design and build a higher-quality knockoff.

 

Well, *some*one's bound to. I'd have guessed Edirol. I get the feeling 2006 is going to be glutted with MIDI DJ controllers. I'm curious to see what happens with the Numark iPod DJ mixer--if tempo/pitch control gets added, I'm gonna feel like a monkey whenever I say I mix on a computer now.

 

What the hell?! Everybody craps on the Hercules and now people are dissing this console and it's not even out yet?

Fine then, back to my ORIGINAL question (sorry for the hijack, but my thread was getting no responses) is there ANY console with a built in sound card that ISN'T crappy?

BTW, boysteve... where can you find it for $150? On Behringer's site it says it's gonna release at a price of $220.

 

Who's dissing it? We're expressing our misgivings based on experience with Behringer.

And searching "behringer bcd2000" on google yields three sites selling the unit for $149.99 as the first three hits. That there Internet--it's the kewlest.

 

I specifically mentioned Mackie because of Behringer's long history of stealing Mackie product designs (in some cases, right down to the circuit-board level), so it would be rather amusing to have Mackie pull a turnabout (not that I really expect a reputable, higly-respected company like Mackie would actually do such a thing). They did recently jump into the DJ-mixer field with their (optionally) Firewire-connected mixer, so hopefully they will come up with an (original design) DJ control surface.