RE: MIDI Foot controllers

["Michael LaMeyer" <m.lameyer@verizon.net>]

Actually, your ability to program things like cc messages and foot
controller assignments would be impaired if you were unable to access the
top row of switches on the 1010.

By way of explanation, the footswitches are used for multiple purposes in
performing/editing modes.

In performing mode, when you stomp on a footswitch, it sends out whatever
MIDI messages you programed that switch to send, and/or assigns the two
footpedals to MIDI commands.  In this mode, blocking the top 5 foot 
switches
(6-10) would only have the impact of limiting you to 5 footswitches to call
up patches/presets.

In edit mode, where you actually define the footswitch presets used in
performing mode, each of the footswitches represents a different MIDI
command.  The bottom 5 switches (1 - 5) allow you to assign up to 5 MIDI PC
messages to a single footswitch.  The top row of 5 switches (6-10) allow 
you
to assign up to 2 CC messages and assign MIDI commands to the 2 foot 
pedals.
In this mode, blocking the top row of 5 footswitches would prevent you from
assign CC messages or change foot pedal assignments for any given
patch/preset you want to edit.  Theoritically, you could setup/define all 
of
the footswitches you want to use, and THEN block the top 5 row of foot
switches when all you want/need to do is tap on foot switches 1-5 on the
bottom row to call up patches.  Perhaps you could make the block for the 
top
row of switches removable, in order to facilite patch editing.

I have no idea is this suggestion is useful, but someone made the 
suggestion
of painting the footswitches with very dinstinct and separate colors for
each row.  This sounds more beneficial to me (you can operate the unit in
edit mode normally, and still have access to 10 patches per bank), but this
may not work for you.

Hope this helps,

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Popperwell [mailto:popperwell@iname.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:42 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: MIDI Foot controllers
>
>
>
> At 21:32 04/02/03 , you wrote:
> >
> >>> ...a good MIDI foot controller with just one row
> >
> >I would consider using the FCB1010 anyway, and just forget about the
> >upper/rear row of foot switches. Put some kind of barrier
> over them to
> >prevent tactile confusion with the lower/front row. The unit
> is well built,
> >very inexpensive (and even cheaper on Ebay), and has a very
> active yahoo
> >group with hundreds of members.
>
> That's an interesting suggestion, I guess that the Behringer
> FCB 1010 bottom
> row would be fine. What functions would I loose by only using
> one row? How is
> it configured and can the switches have programmable assignments? Ian.
>
> >Half the yahoo list chatter is about how confusing the
> manual is, granted :)
> >
> >But still, it is a good unit. Behringer has updated the
> firmware several
> >times since the unit was released so that bodes well for
> continuing support.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ian Popperwell" <popperwell@iname.com>
> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:23 PM
> >Subject: MIDI Foot controllers
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have posted on this subject before but am still looking
> for what I need
> >> and could do with a bit of help.
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a good MIDI foot controller with just one row of
> >> well-spaced foot switches - with or without a pedal. This
> is because I
> >have
> >> very little eye sight and can't hit the double-row
> controllers with any
> >> degree of accuracy. I posted a couple of weeks ago about
> the Philip Rees
> >> MM5 (now discontinued) but guess that nobody on the list
> has experience of
> >> using it. I've checked out as many makes and models as I
> can find but they
> >> all now seem to have two rows - Yamaha, Roland, Behringer,
> Digitech, Zoom,
> >> Rocktron, Peavey(?)...
> >>
> >> I use a MIDI Wind controller with a couple of modules, a synth with
> >> arpegiator and fx units and am saving for an EDP (I
> currently use a trusty
> >> DL4) -. I need/want to be able to send MIDI clock, prog
> changes, set up
> >> drones, start/stop arpegiator and transmit chord info to
> arpegiator, + in
> >> the future control the EDP. If I can't do all these
> things, my access to a
> >> pedalboard is more important to me than features - some of
> em would be
> >> better than none.
> >>
> >> Any advice would be very helpful.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Ian.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>