Re: MIDI foot controllers

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

Rainer thx very much. I stepped through this but have further  
questions so will email you off list as dont want to wear out my  
welcome with everyone.




On Aug 23, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Rainer Straschill  
<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Jim asked:
> "I got another observation re my comment about my midi-guitar pedal.
> It's got 3 pedals, is it as simple as telling Mobius which of those 3
> pedal midi channels (assuming each pedal is a channel) to use for
> those 3 responses?"
>
> It basically works like this:
> (this is assuming you're using Mobius standalone, if you're using it
> in a host app then getting the MIDI from the midi-guitar pedal to
> Mobius is beyond the scope of this text).
> 1. Select the MIDI interface for the pedal as "MIDI In" in the MIDI
> port configuration in Mobius
> 2. Select "MIDI commands" (or whatever it is called), and then it just
> works like with keyboard commands:
> check the "auto learn" (or whatever it is called) checkbox, select the
> function you want a pedal assigned to (like record), then press the
> pedal and there you go!
>
> Please note that anything more than assigning one pedal to one
> Mobius/EDP function will require scripts. An example would be to put
> record and overdub on one and the same button.
> I remember somebody once wrote a set of scripts that made the DL4 user
> interface available in Mobius. You may check the Mobius archives for
> those as an inspiration.
>
>            Rainer
>