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--- goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote: > amongst my reservations is this, though. and please, list-members, >correct me > if I'm wrong: you set up the midi channel for each pedal /globally/. so >if your > 'peater is on ch15 and y'r fx box is on ch14, they get (say) five pedals >each > and that's that. then all of the presets you program will have five >pedals > doing something on ch15 and the other five on ch14. This is only true for the CC pedals, not for the switches. The switches can send up to 5 PC msgs (and set the 2 mechanical swithes, and send a CC, and/or a note) for each press. The 5 PC msgs are like slots, you can program the preset to either use it or not. Each of the 5 PC msg "slots" are assigned globally a midi channel. So, if you send PC-1 and 2 on channel 1, you'd have three other PC "slots" that you could send on another channel. There's a limitation there, while you could send 5 PC messages to the same device (same MIDI channel) if that was all you used, if you use different devices (on different midi channels), you could send less PC mesgs to any given on for any given switch you press. > what I don't like about the fcb is this: the pedals recall presets in the > fcb1010. each preset is a snapshot, and may contain up to x-number of >programme > changes (5, is it?), two controller values, a note-on, set-ups for the >pedals > (upper & lower limits and an initial value). I may have the details >wrong but > that's basically what the fcb1010 does. so you might have to programme an > entire preset and recall it even if all you want to do is issue a single >PC > command to (say) put 'peater into record on track 2. If all you want to do is send a PC to select track 2, all you need to program for that switch is that one PC. (If you wanted to start recording on that track, you'd have to send two PC msgs, since select track and record are seperate functions in the Repeaters midi implementation). > this eats up the fcb1010's > memory quite quickly and means you can't put things where you want them >in > terms of (say) having transport commands at the bottom and track selects >at the > top. My understanding is that it's got enough memory to fully populate all the presets (banks 0-9, switchs 1-10 in each). I don't see how memory comes into the picture. I don't understand what you're saying about not being able to put any command anywhere you want. I programmed my FCB1010 to have transport-related commands on the bottom row (reverse, undo, play, record, and tap tempo) and track select commands on the top (select track1, 2, 3, 4, and multiply) on the top. BUT it would have been no problem to have reversed that, it's what YOU tell it to send when you press that button. There's no limitation on what you can send. > and, as I noted before (excuse the pun), the tap tempo works by sending a > note-on when you hit a pedal.... but the pedal has to recall the preset >to do > this, Yes, but it only sends what you tell it to, nothing else. > so those controller values that were initialised by the preset the first > time you recalled it, they get initialised again. so if one ! > of them is controlling the pitch of one of y'r 'peater tracks and you've > altered it with a keyboard or the front panel, the fcb1010 is going to >unalter > it for you when you go to tap your tempo in. Nope. On my tap tempo button, the only thing it sends is the PC message for tap tempo. It doesn't undo anything that's already set. Here's an example that should prove this. When I select track 1 (via switch 6), I assign one of the CC pedals to control pitch on that track, and the other to control track volume. If I alter the pitch using the CC pedal, and then press the swithc I have assigned to tap tempo, the pitch remains altered. If I select track 2 (via switch 7), I can also change aroudn it's pitch and relative volume. The settings I made on track one remain until I step on switch 6 and move the pedals again (or use the front panel, or step on a different switch where I send the CC command to reset the pitch or volume). > I wanted a footboard where there were ten switches that could be >programmed to > send any midi string I wanted, and two controller pedals that could send >any CC > on any channel. It'll send any midi string you want via the switches (within the limitations imposed by their "slot" method of sending PC messages), but the CC pedals are assigned global midi channels, so you're stuck there. > you might be able to use the fcb1010 like you want if the PC's don't all > coincide, but it's a bit unlikely. and I imagine that I'd have a hard >time > working the repeater without the comforting immediacy of the hard-wired > footswitch (the fs300), however the fcb1010 was set up. I disagree. The FCB1010 does everything I want to do with my Repeater. The only gross limitation I see regarding controlling multiple devices is that the CC pedals can only control one device (unless they share midi channels, which you don't want most of the time). Greg __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com