AW: Stupid Repeater/FCB1010 question

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Matthew, 

> Thinking about picking up an FCB1010. The only thing I really 
> want to do is have the ability to mute the playback of each 
> of the Repeaters 4 tracks independently at the press of a 
> button. 

Can be done, using PC messages 16 to 19. This works as a toggle and
independently of the loop you're playing; as Zoe Keating mentioned 
recently,
there is no way to explicitly set tracks to mute/unmute at the press of a
button. 

> Being a complete MIDI noob,  I'm not sure if this can 
> even be done, but I suspect it can.  I would also like to 
> have a switch that changes the Repeater from Overdub to 
> Insert mode, if possible.

As I understand it, the Repeater doesn't have an Insert option. You can
switch between Overdub and Replace.

> While I'm brainstorming here........could you also set it up 
> so that one of the expression pedals controls Tempo ie as you 
> press down on the pedal, the tempo of the loop increases?

Yes, this works, albeit of course only when you're not synced to MIDI.

If it's of interest to you, I could send you my FCB1010 setup (either the
definition in Excel format, or a Sysex dump from the FCB1010 editor).

        Rainer