basic Midi control repeater question

[AALev123@aol.com]

       Do I have this right- in order to get the repeater to say , record, 
via midi you need to send a particular Program control message, then a cc 
message and send a certain value with the cc message. If that is the case, 
and I hope I am missing something, then -at least for guitar players, the DMC 
controller is pretty useless because you will have to step on  at least 2 
buttons and then move a volume pedal -with this type of set up it will be 
impossible for any two footed creature to get precise start and stop etc...