Re: Behringer FCB1010

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Don't miss out on checking the Gordius Little Giant 2 as well! I
recently got one of those after having used up three FCB1010's (they
typically last exactly three years for me) and I wished I had gone
with it a lot earlier, because it would have saved me some money. The
LG is expensive to buy but cheap to own, compared with the
Behringer(s). Another nasty issue I had with all my FCB's is that they
now and then send out a random MIDI CC# value. I was using hardware
gear that could not filter MIDI and my rack devices kept jumping off
my preferred settings all the time. This kind of happened every third
minute and was a pain in the ass when performing. Then I started using
only software at the receiving end and was unlucky to find the best
sound and functionality with software that was by design hardwired to
some Roland General MIDI specification of the eighties - so the
Behringer random MIDI surprise bug kept biting me. The Gordius pedal
never leaks any MIDI I have not programmed it to send out on my
command, so I'm a very happy musician these days :-)   Oh, another
reason I went with the Gordius is its small size and light weight...
not beating the SoftStep here though, but to me the SoftStep has
disqualified itself in many other areas.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Ed Durbrow <edurbrow@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want a pedal board to work with Mobius and a laptop Mac (to be 
>purchased
> soon). I haven't heard anything recently about the SoftStep. As I 
>understand
> it, the consensus was that SoftStep is still not ready for prime time. I
> really wanted something small like that, that would fit in a back pack, 
>so
> that I could go by subway to a venue. Someone mentioned here a Boss? or
> Roland? or Yamaha? pedal that is newer than the Behringer, but I can't
> remember which model or whether it fit as well with Mobius. I figured I'd
> buy a Behringer FCB1010 because in a  FAQ somewhere I read that it is 
>the
> near perfect controller for looping with Mobius.
> So, as I'm heading back to Japan in three weeks, I'd better get cracking 
>on
> finding something. In my Google searches for used ones, I keep finding 
>that
> when I click on a cheap price it takes me to a site that is selling new
> ones. Of course I'm checking Ebay, but I thought I'd ask if anyone here 
>is
> selling one (hopefully with the UnO firmware).
> TIA
>