RE: pedal recommendations

["David O" <loopers@oleniacz.com>]

Elby

The PMC-10 can send two midi strings per pedal, not two program changes.
Each midi strings can have a huge number of program changes,
up to available memory (which is about 29K bytes).

But you can have more than just program changes in the midi strings.
You can program note on/off messages and trigger entire chords with one
pedal.

If you wanted, you can program a PMC-10 pedal up upload
an entire sysex dump of whatever synths you were using.

The external device jack will allow you to control non-midi devices
(channel switching, start/stop, etc) anything that uses a switch to
activate.

The only other thing that beats the PMC-10 is the Rocktron All Access 
pedal.

DavidO


-----Original Message-----
From: Mountain Man [mailto:mtman@cloud9.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:56 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: pedal recommendations


Hi folks,

I'm looking at buying a set of midi pedals to be used for controlling a
looper
(when I get one), and also for doing things like sending sets of program
change
messages to my different synths, continuous controller messages from one or
more
expression pedals, and ... oh yes, the appropriate commands to a looper !
I'd
really like a programmable unit that will allow multiple program changes on
different midi channels with each button press.

>From reading the specs of a number of pedals (some of which have *very*
little info
online), it looks to me like the Rocktron Midi Mate might be my best bet.
It
allows for 5 simultaneous program changes per button.  Although the PMC10 
is
highly
touted here, it looks to me like I'm only going to get 2 per button.  
Anyone
have
experience with the Rocktron for controlling loopers?  Any word from the
folks at
Electrix about how this will work with the repeater <g> ?

Any input that will help in making this decision much appreciated  :)

Elby