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Paul, the mode you come up in is normal mode. Here, you can press a pedal to call up a preset. If you want to program it, you hold down the down pedal for three secs. or so, you'll then be in programming mode. When in programming mode, the first thing you'll program is whether or not you want either of the jacks in the fcb to send a pulse for the preset you're programming. You do this by lighting or dimming the leds on either of the first two pedals, by pressing either of them to toggle your choice. When you've set that, simply press the up pedal which will enter that selection, and take you to the next level. Here, you now have the selections of pc, cc, or note messages to enable or disable, or assign. By pressing each pedal to toggle it's led, you either enable or disable it in the preset. If you decide you want two pc msgs to be sent in your preset, you simply light both leds of two of those pedals on the lower row. Does this make sense so far? OK, so let's say you want to now assign a value to one of those msgs, which will be sent to your Repeater when you press the pedal of the preset you're programming. Remember, you have two pc pedals lit now. So, you now hold down one of those, and it's led will blink. Now, press the up pedal, and you'll be taken to the next level. here, you'll assign a number for that pc msg. You do that by simply using the pedals to type it in. Once you do, press the up pedal again, and you'll now be right back where you just were. One of the values will now be set, so you'll now need to hold down the other pc pedal to make it's led blink. Once you do, again, press up pedal. type in the number you want, and press up again. If that's the only two messages you want the fcb to send when you press the pedal for your preset, then make sure all the other leds above the pedals other than those two you want are dark, and then finally, hold down the down pedal for three secs. or so to leave programming mode and return to normal mode. Now, when you press the pedal of the preset you just programmed, two midi msgs will be sent, they will be two pc msgs, with the number values you just set. -one for each msg. Does this make sense? I hope this helps. Have a wonderful evening... Smiles, Cara At 03:20 PM 7/8/03 -0400, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:59 PM >Subject: Re: MIDI Foot controllers? > > >> --- Paul Sanders <paul_sanders@adelphia.net> wrote: >> . >> >> > The Behringer appears to be set where all the buttons represent >certain >> > types of midi messages. In other words, you can't program button 1 to >do >a >> > control change message, it's fixed at program change. >> >> In PROGRAMMING MODE, button 1 selects the first PC in the set. The >FCB1010 >has >> two modes, normal mode, which sends whatever is programmed in the preset >when you >> step on the switch to select it, and programming mode, where you define >what's in >> the preset. Each preset is comprised of a "package", a fixed group of >PC/CC/and >> note MIDI functions to be sent together when it's selected (and you can >also make >> assignments for the 2 CC pedals and the operation of the switching >jacks). >Think >> of a preset as a container with 10 little slots in it. You can either >put >> something in each of the slots or not, but the slots are always there >whether you >> use 'em or not. > >I've discovered most of what you say here by futzing with it for a while >yesterday and last night. > >What I'm still foggy on is how to switch between "NORMAL mode" and >"PROGRAMMING mode". > >When I power the thing up (without holding the "Down" button) I'm in >normal >mode, right? Is programming mode the mode when I hold down the "Down" >button >after selecting a preset? > >Are you suggesting that I run the unit in this mode? I was under the >impression it's just for programming the presets. Here's what I've been >doing with it... > > >Now, I've set the thing in the mode where I program the presets by holding >down the "Down" botton for 2-3 seconds, but my understanding is that is >how >I get to where I can set the balues of the PC/CC/etc for the preset >itself. >Once I leave that mode, if I step on a button I'm back to selecting that >preset within that bank, and that's not what I set out to do. > >I figure I can have different presets set up to put the Repeater in >different states, but that seems obscure to me. > >I want to step on a button to tell it to play, another button to tell it >to >record, and another button to tell it to mute track 2, etc. When I power >the >thing up though, when I step on a button, I'm selecting a preset, not >sending just that single control message, unless of course I have the >preset >set up to send only that single control message, which seems wasteful to >me. >Is that how I have to do it though? > >I'm getting closer, but there's still something I'm missing. I've been >digging through the fcb1010 archives too. Seems there are a lot of >"helpful" >perspectives, but none that are yet clearing things up for me. > > >> >> The package of midi cmds in a preset looks like this: >> >> PC#1/PC#2/PC#3/PC#4/PC#5/CC#1/CC#2/Assignment for EXP 1 & 2/Note >> >> It's preprogrammed by Behringer to control one of their amps & a Vamp, >depending >> on what bank you select, so for example, a preset might do something >like: >> >> PC=31/PC=48/blank/blank/blank/blank/blank/EXP1=CC10/EXP2=CC11/blank >> >> To reprogram this, you'd go into programming mode, select pedal 1 for >PC#1, >> change the PC value it's going to send, confirm that, select pedal 2 for >PC#2, >> change it's value, confirm that, etc etc, then save the changes. It's >really not >> difficult. >> >> What appears to be confusing is that the manual doesn't explain how or >why >it >> works, it just gives a couple of "cookbook style" examples. Press this, >press >> that, press the other, long press, short press, look for this light, >etc. >Go >> through the examples! Once you've done this a time or two, it'll be >clear >to you. >> >> Also, look through the list archives at loopers-delight.com, and through >the >> Yahoogroup repeater-users for very specific information about how to >program it >> for use with a Repeater. This has been discussed extensively in the >past. >> >> > I may just be confused, but I spent the afternoon sorting through >this. >> > Am I off base here? >> >> Yes. The way the manual is written, you will probably never understand >it >until >> you DO it. >> >> > What controllers would you all recommend? >> >> I thing the FCB1010 is an excellent midi foot controller for use with >the >> Repeater. Like I say, I've been -very happy- with mine. >> >> Greg >> >> __________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> SBC Yahoo! 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