2007/12/1, L.A. Angulo < labaloops@yahoo.com>:

wow,ive been checking out the manual of this FC very
powerful indeed,the only drawback is more tap dance
not enough switches,why on earth didnt they do this
with the FC-200? on the other hand,compact with a led
screen and its price tag aint bad for what it can do
thanx for the tip!
Luis

--- Mech < mech@m3ch.net> wrote:

> At 6:55 PM +0200 10/29/07, Sjaak wrote:
> >Thanks for all your replies. It appeared that the
> FCB1010 was too
> >big to fit under my synth stand; second: my
> supplier told me that a
> >lot of the FCB's have been returned within a year
> due to hardware
> >failures..... So I have decided to buy the Roland
> FC-300
> >
> >First impression:
> >+ all pedals can be of type latch or momentary =>
> piano sustain can
> >be programmed :)
> >+ good positioning of all pedals
> >+ good visibility of green and red LED's on stage
> >+ easy to progam, no manual needed
> >+ build like a tank => as the FC-200
>
> I've got an FC-300 too, and this is a fine summary
> of many of its
> good points.  Although you will probably need the
> manual to look up
> many of its more subtle functions.
>
> >- 1 global midi channel setting => it's not
> possible to store
> >different midi channel's with a pedal setting
>
> This is not correct at all.
>
> Ignore Standard and Control Modes (as well as Sysex
> Mode, unless
> you've got a VG-99).  Those modes are worthless
> unless you want to
> dedicate the FC-300 to a single device, and I never
> even bother with
> them at all.  The fourth Mode -- Patch Mode -- is
> where you want to
> be.  In this Mode, the FC-300 will send MIDI
> messages to any MIDI
> channel, programmable per pedal.
>
> In fact, this is where the FC-300 gets over the
> MAJOR complaint I
> always had against the FCB-1010 (even though I've
> got one an FCB
> too): the expression pedals (not the switches) on
> the FCB could only
> ever be set to a single channel.  So, for instance,
> you couldn't
> control Feedback on your Looper, then switch patches
> and use that
> same expression pedal to control, say, Filter Cutoff
> on a synth
> module.
>
> Not only can the FC-300 do that (I'm doing it with
> several different
> patches), but you can actually use a single pedal to
> control SIX
> different parameters simultaneously.  These can each
> be on different
> MIDI channels if you like.  You can not only scale
> the control range
> (parameter 1 may have a range of 0 - 127, while
> parameter 2 only has
> a range of 50 - 70), but you can also reverse the
> ranges of
> individual parameters (1 may have a range of 0 -
> 127, while 2 has a
> range of 127 - 0; accomplishing a nice little
> crossfade between
> sounds/effects, for instance).
>
> At Y2k7, for instance, I had programmed all the
> volume swells for the
> VG-99 into the right-most expression pedal (I could
> have easily done
> it by switching to SysEx Mode, but I wanted the
> convenience of
> staying in one Mode during the performance).  The
> left expression
> pedal controlled a variety of different functions,
> depending upon
> patch: Feedback on my Looperlative channels; Volume
> of specific
> tracks; Feedback of the echo effect built into the
> VG; Speed of the
> Leslie effect on one Patch; Track Playback Speed on
> the LP-1; etc.,
> etc., etc.
>
> I kept the CTL 1 & CTL 2 switches the same on every
> patch (Rec/Dub,
> and Stop Now;Erase) for purposes of consistency, but
> I could have
> programmed those for independent functions per
> patch.  Likewise, I
> attached an FS-6 footswitch for CTL 3 & 4, and
> dedicated those to
> Previous Track and Next Track functions on the
> Looperlative.  The
> individual patches cycled through a variety of
> functions too numerous
> to name here.
>
> You imagine it, and you can probably program it in
> Patch Mode on the FC-300.
>
> >- only 1 control message per pedal
>
> Again, not correct.
>
> In Patch Mode, you can actually send multiple
> messages to multiple
> channels (up to 6 messages, IIRC) on pedal press.
> In addition, you
> can send an additional 6 messages on pedal release.
> The pedal
> release messages can be programmed (per pedal) to
> fire off on either
> physical release (good for Note Off messages, so you
> can turn it into
> a set of MIDI bass pedals, or whatever etc.).  Or
> they can be delayed
> until the next pedal is pressed, so that the release
> messages are
> fired off just prior to the next pedal's messages
> are sent.  This
> latter function might be good, for instance, for
> setting up a series
> of chords that sound until the next "chord" pedal is
> pressed, at
> which time all the appropriate Note Off's are sent
> before the new
> chord's Note On's arrive).
>
> Look, even though I was extremely skeptical at
> first, this thing will
> in fact practically mow the lawn.  It does
> everything except for
> "roll your own" SysEx (and it will do GM SysEx as
> well as NRPN stuff;
> you just can't program in an entire Hex String from
> scratch).  That's
> something that I actually use pretty rarely these
> days anyway.
>
> I'm using it to replace my Digitech PMC-10, which is
> no longer being
> manufactured of course.  That's how good it is.  And
> at a price of
> only about $300, it's less costly than many of the
> other "full
> featured" MIDI pedals out on the market today
> (Ground Control Pro,
> etc.).
>
> Sjaak, dig a bit more into the programming on the
> FC-300.  I'm
> confident that with a bit of work, you'll find most,
> if not all, of
> your misgivings will quickly evaporate.
>
>       --m.
> --
> _____
> "the wind in my heart; the dust in my head...."
>
>

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