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RE: digitech pmc-10
At 04:15 PM 1/2/2006, hazard factor wrote:
>The one I used for awhile would add about a 100ms delay to note-on
>messages
>(PMC-10 > EDP, nothing in between). Maybe it was unique to mine or mine
>was
>goofy, but it got difficult compensating for the delay during a gig where
>I
>wanted loops somewhat in sync with everything else.
Are you talking about the similarly named Yamaha MFC-10 midi pedal? That
one is well known to have a latency like you describe, rendering it fairly
useless. But the Digitech PMC-10 didn't have such a problem, at least not
in my experience. Andre LaFosse uses the digitech PMC-10 to do his fast
action looping, and I doubt he would be able to navigate a 100ms latency
and do all that crazy fast stuff!
>It always amazed me that people who make midi controllers didn't ever
>make a
>more robust copy of a PMC-10...the closest we have today might be the
>FCB1010 with the unofficial firmware, but it still isn't close.
>I mean, most controllers only will send limited CC messages over limited
>channels.
It is baffling. I think it would be so much simpler to design a midi
controller that can send any midi command. Most of them assume their
customers are morons, and therefore must be saved from themselves. So they
introduce all sorts of limitations in order to "simplify" the user
interface. In the process they usually make it more confusing and harder
to
use.
kim
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