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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 > > > 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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > >