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Re: Most programmable midi foot controller

If I can chime in here... I'm definitely the worst placed person to 
comment on "Evil Behringer" and their habit of reverse engineering. I 
did it myself... reverse engineer the Behringer FCB.
Not with any commercial purpose (what would that be: to make a cheaper 
clone of the Behringer products??) , no, just because the Big Behr 
didn't show any interest in solving (or even admitting) some reported 
firmware bugs. That's how UnO was born. I don't think it harmed anyone - 
it's freely downloadable, but so are Behringers own firmware updates. It 
might even be possible that Behringer sold a few extra units of their 
popular FCB1010 with the outcome of UnO (especially if you look at the 
UnO forum, which has been steadily growing toward the current 1600 
users...)
Now on the other hand, gathering feature requests for UnO also learned 
me a lot about what features many users need (and don't find in current 
foot controllers). That's what made me decide to design a new foot 
controller. From scratch. Completely different firmware concept (except 
for many of the UnO features which were not available in the Behringer 
product). Completely different mechanical concept too. I just wanted to 
grab the occasion to mention that these GORDIUS Little Giant foot 
controllers have been "officially released to market" earlier today. (I 
hope you don't mind my mentioning it. As the topic of this thread was 
"most programmable midi foot controller"...)

Cheers,
Xavier aka Ossan Dust
http://www.gordius.be


midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:
> Wow. 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>
>   
>> The's an UnO chip available for the FCB that fixes some bugs and adds 
>some
>> features (like Stompbox mode)
>>
>> http://www.ossandust.be/
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -==-=-=-
>> Tony
>>     
>
>
>   
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: Most programmable midi foot controller
> From:
> "Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:19:40 +0000
> To:
> Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> To:
> Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
>
> The's an UnO chip available for the FCB that fixes some bugs and adds 
> some features (like Stompbox mode)
>
> http://www.ossandust.be/
>
>
> -- 
> -==-=-=-
> Tony