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Re: fcb1010: dirty data...anyone ever noticed?

On 4 okt 2006, at 08.38, Zoe Keating wrote:

> Anyway...what's been pretty enlightening, watching the midi  
> messages scroll by, is noticing a few bits of "extra" data being  
> sent along with my patches.... occasionally. I also I noticed that  
> the Repeaters don't wig out so much when controlled by the computer  
> as they do when controlled by the FCB1010. I think quite a few of  
> my long-standing midi problems are about the foot controller, not  
> the Repeater.§


Yes, I have had these problems with hidden MIDI data bursted out from  
the FCB1010. Some years ago I was unlucky to work with physical gear  
(EDP, Repeater, AKAI MFC42 filterbank) that did not allow me to make  
changes to which data the devices should react to. Some of the FCB  
hidden data applied to the set controller for the filterbank and made  
it loose sync way too often.

(Maybe you're already doing this... but anyway, here we go:) I've  
noticed you have a powerbook with Ableton Live, so a workaround could  
be to run the FCB into the laptop. Then make up MIDI clips in Live  
that do contain the MIDI data to control your repeaters etc. Finally  
set up MIDI bindings to trigger those Live MIDI Clips from MIDI data  
sent by your FCB. When doing this, make sure to not use any of the  
hidden data. Also make sure there is no MIDI Through in Live. Live  
should only be able to send out the content of those MIDI Clips and  
not what it gets at its MIDI input from your FCB. This way you filter  
out the hidden data from your pedal.

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