Re: Question concering midi foot controller

[Stuart Wyatt <stuart@solostring.com>]

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:33 PM, john smith wrote:

> So, I guess the question then becomes a few in a row:
> Are the FBC 1010 switches programmable as momentary switches?

Unfortunately not (if I understand your question properly). The switches 
are not external plugin switches - they are outputs that send signals to 
guitar amps... switching channels etc. I've yet to experiment with this.

> Is one able to program the FBC 1010 to send simple program change 
> messages?

Yes. Each button can have 5 PC messages programmed (as well as 2 CC 
messages)... Each PC message can be globally assigned to different Midi 
channels - so in theory, you can send signals to 5 separate devices if 
you want to... 7 if you count the CC messages....

> Would you suggest this pedal for these purposes I've described or is 
> there something
> smaller or more portable I could look into.

Its certainly the best pedal I have experienced so far. There are other 
more complicated units, but the prices of those are way high in 
comparison.

I'd recommend it :)

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