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RE: quest for Repeater foot control



Title: quest for Repeater foot control
Hey Dan,
 
I use the FCB1010 exclusively to control a Repeater. There are people on the list who use it to control both Repeater and EDP (and seem happy with it), and others which control Repeater and a myriad of effects and drum machines (and are not so happy with it...for reasons I can understand):
 
First: you can do anything you can do on the Repeater's front panel with the FCB1010 and more (and everything you mentioned in your post as must-haves). You can send CC, PC and midi note messages, and it has a way cool tap tempo feature to control effects which don't have this option but let you set the delay time using CCs (like a Digitech StudioQuad). As I said, I control every Repeater function with the FCB1010, and am quite happy with it. There are some drawbacks I'd like to mention:
1. sometimes the pedals "snap" to a value, sometimes they don't. I didn't take the time to find out when they do and when they don't. But it works out nearly most of the time for me.
2. They included two relay switches, but you can't tap them. A pity, I would've preferred to tap my Repeater and the Vortex with one foot press. (I know, time to get an EDP, but on the other hand, the Vortex acts up strangely anyway).
 
Apart from that, it's hilarious fun to play with the FCB1010 and the Repeater: doing varispeed effects, panning, pitching and volumeing tracks with your feet, switching loops...it's comparable to having a repeater w/o foot controller and a person sitting in front of it while you play who can guess exactly what you want!
 
    Rainer
 
Rainer Straschill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Soltzberg [mailto:d.ans@verizon.net]
Sent: Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 23:02
To: Loopers Delight
Subject: quest for Repeater foot control

well, I've plundered the archives regarding the fcb1010/ repeater combo, and some folks say they love it, and some folks say they don't . . .

At the very least, I want to be able to use my feet to operate the transport, choose which tracks to record onto, control track volumes, and reverse tracks, without having to do crazy tap-dancing.

Will fcb1010 make this possible or not?? Based on what I've read in the archives, I can't tell.

If not fcb1010, what are people's alternative recommendations?

thanks much for your help,


Dan

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