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Hi Sean, I guess the answer to that is that there isn't yet anything "like the FCB1010", as last weeks discussion on this board confirmed. And, talking specifically FCB1010, the pedal does come loaded with presets. But those are presets for some of Behringer's guitar pre amps. If you get a FCB to use with "intelligent looping software" (as Stefan puts it, below) the first thing you have to do is to reprogram it to put the note numbers - starting from MIDI note number 1 - on the one to ten buttons, spanning all ten banks. That makes a good hundred of MIDI note number messages you can simply step on and have the software/hardware "learn". A device - software or hardware - can not "MIDI learn" intelligently if sent multiple MIDI messages. This is something you also have to look out with on the FCB, because each button does activate as many functions as you have assigned it. What also happens when you step that button is that all those MIDI events are sent out in a "MIDI data cluster" and there seems to be no way to assume witch one will be the first to hit the listening "MIDI learn" device. I don't know how Looperlative does monitor what MIDI event is being learned, but when I do this quick MIDI learning in Möbius or Ableton Live I call up a MIDI monitoring window on screen to make sure the right event is getting "MIDI learned". The other, more labour intensive, way to do it is to work the pedal and disable every FCB "pad" (as Behringer call the functions associated with the buttons and pedals) except for the one you want to teach your intelligent looping device. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.looproom.com (international) www.boysen.se (Swedish) ---> iTunes Music Store (digital) www.cdbaby.com/perboysen On 3 jan 2006, at 17.53, Sean Echevarria wrote: > Does something like the FCB1010 come out of the box with default > programming that is unique across its 128 presets? > > > At 2006.01.03 08:41 AM, Stefan Tiedje wrote: > >> For me as I use programmable software, a pedal or footcontroler >> does not need any! programability. It could send whatever seems >> apropriate. I'd deal with it in the software. >> >> The concept of the Looperlative is exactly the optimum. Forget >> about programming your pedal ever again! >> >> Think in terms of flow of information. Its way easier to tell the >> loop box which you want to control, what your footpedal sends: >> just hit the button, move the pedal, than the other way round: to >> teach the footpedal what your gear wants to hear. You have to >> study Midi implementation charts and alike and finally hit some >> weird button combinations to make it happen if its able to do it >> at all. (technocratic nightmares invented from dip switch >> programmers) >> >> In other words, put the inteligence into the looper, not into the >> pedal. > >