Re: foot controllers

[Sean Echevarria <sean.loop@creepingfog.com>]

At 2006.01.03 09:51 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>Hi Sean,
>
>I guess the answer to that is that there isn't yet anything "like the
>FCB1010", as last weeks discussion on this board confirmed.

I must have missed that...


>And,
>talking specifically FCB1010, the pedal does come loaded with
>presets. But those are presets for some of Behringer's guitar pre
>amps. If you get a FCB to use with "intelligent looping software" (as
>Stefan puts it, below) the first thing you have to do is to reprogram
>it to put the note numbers - starting from MIDI note number 1 - on
>the one to ten buttons, spanning all ten banks. That makes a good
>hundred of MIDI note number messages you can simply step on and have
>the software/hardware "learn".
>
>A device - software or hardware - can not "MIDI learn" intelligently
>if sent multiple MIDI messages. This is something you also have to
>look out with on the FCB, because each button does activate as many
>functions as you have assigned it. What also happens when you step
>that button is that all those MIDI events are sent out in a "MIDI
>data cluster" and there seems to be no way to assume witch one will
>be the first to hit the listening "MIDI learn" device. I don't know
>how Looperlative does monitor what MIDI event is being learned, but
>when I do this quick MIDI learning in Möbius or Ableton Live I call
>up a MIDI monitoring window on screen to make sure the right event is
>getting "MIDI learned". The other, more labour intensive, way to do
>it is to work the pedal and disable every FCB "pad" (as Behringer
>call the functions associated with the buttons and pedals) except for
>the one you want to teach your intelligent looping device.

Yeah - that's what I figured.  You don't really get around having to learn 
how to program a foot controller by using a device (or software) that has 
MIDI learn capability.

sean