RE: midi pedals

["M. Steven Ginn" <sginn@airmail.net>]

Speaking of pedals, has anyone heard if the pedal for the new Line 6
Vetta that is coming out, will have programming capability and
functionality like the PMC10?  It sure would be incredible since it has
two pedals and a whole slew of metal buttons that would make a nice all
purpose controller.

Steve

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> 
> At 07:35 AM 9/3/2001, Jason Fink wrote:
> >John Tidwell wrote:
> >
> > > I think Electrix may come to regret listing some of
> > > those midi controllers on their web-site. I already
> > > own an ART X-15 & it provides limited control at best.
> > > I have a Peavey PC-1600x on order. I'm hoping it will
> > > solve a lot of my midi control problems.
> > >
> >
> >Akkk!   I just bought an X-15 on ebay  ($60) hoping it will
> >really open things up!  Have not even received it yet.
> 
> That is one of many pedals that was only created for simply 
> selecting a 
> preset on a multi-effect in a guitar rack, and giving a little bit of 
> continuous controller functionality to adjust the reverb amount or 
> something. They hardly support any midi commands and have 
> very limited 
> programmability. If I remember right, the x-15 is even 
> limited to a single 
> midi channel.
> 
> You can hardly expect these limited-function pedals to be 
> very useful for 
> controlling a more sophisticated device like a looper. They 
> won't be able 
> to control all the functions. Even if you can get it to 
> control some of the 
> functions, sooner or later you will find it won't do what you 
> want. And 
> certainly if you are starting to play with something like the 
> Repeater, you 
> will be looking at more midi devices in the future, like sequencers, 
> synths, samplers, etc. So why waste time with it?
> 
> Get a full featured pedal that supports all of the midi 
> commands, and can 
> be programmed to work in a variety of ways. You will be much 
> happier in the 
> long run. There are plenty of good ones that don't even cost 
> more and are 
> not any harder to use. Something like the digitech PMC-10, 
> lake-butler 
> midigator, roland fc-200, yamaha mfc-10, rocktron all-access, etc.
> 
> I heard that digital music corp is finally making a new 
> version of the 
> Ground Control. Does anybody know anything about that? 
> Hopefully they will 
> do it right this time and include the full midi spec and more 
> options for 
> how the buttons operate. (i.e., hopefully they make something 
> like the 
> PMC-10.) The old ground control was so frustrating because it had the 
> potential to be a good pedal, but they completely crippled it by only 
> supporting program change and a some limited cc control. Not 
> to mention 
> lack of midi-in so you couldn't even save patches and restore them.
> 
> kim
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