Yes, Birdie is much easier. NRPN is much easier than sysex as well, and is not desk specific. That means if you can use nrpn your presets will work with any Yamaha desk (nearly always true). I wrote about this a while ago somewhere on Andy’s site.
What you need now is this… http://www.checkcheckonetwo.com/forum/showthread.php?1047-Controlling-Mixes-with-BCF2000-MIDI-controller/page3&
and then you can make pages 9-16, 17-24 etc. for your BCF.
You are lucky as well that with NRPN it is the decimal values that you need to put in the “P” box in Birdie, and not the hex values.
I am very sorry if I made a mistake about the editor name. I will look for it and correct it if I can. I wrote quite a lot all over the forum before starting the blog. If you do a search for whale-av you might find more of the information that you need! Also, I am not always correct… I leave that to Andy! … Especially with Midi!
David.