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

[Zoe Keating <cello@zoekeating.com>]

thank ye per...

that is exactly what i'm up to...hence my newfound interest in all things midi. 

i've been in the process of migrating for a while, but until recently never seemed to have enough time between tours to take it all apart and re-work it all.

now i've had a good chunk of time to get my head around it, plan it out, implement and then actually practice.

i mapped some of my "songs" so that they are "played" by midi clips Ableton. it's amazing only having to press one button and let Live do the rest. (a few glitches with midi notes sent on downbeats of new clips...working on it).

i have a hybrid setup where i can stop the progression of midi clips at any time and revert to looping the old way (with the tool palette on the fcb1010)

however, for purely improv pieces, i'm still using the footpedal to RPTR setup and just the computer for audio processing.

anyway, next on the list is to do what you say for the "off the cuff"  pieces too. 

nothing is perfect though, in some ways i feel like i'm just substituting old problems for new ones! 

can't wait to hear you at y2k6!

-z

On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

(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.