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Hi Marc, I'm using one FCB1010 to control my EDP, my Repeater and my Akai MFC42 filter bank. These three devices are of course set to three different midi channels and I have configures the FCB to send the appropriate midi data over those three midi channels. I think there is no problem with controlling many devices from one FCB1010 as long as you can step between different FCB banks. You have to put some planning into how you're going to lay out the banks on your FCB, it depends on what you want to do with the loopers. I have been trying out many concepts but the one I'm staying with now is three main FCB banks. One for EDP only, one for "EDP most used features" together with filter bank commands and finally a third bank for the Repeater (record, overdub, undo, multiply, reverse and then four buttons to record enable each of the for tracks. Earlier on I was using two banks for the Repeater because I wanted to be able to record many loops into the Repeater and easily step through them. But I took this away and decided to only work with one Repeater loop by overdubbing stuff into the four tracks. That way I can stay in Repeater RAM all the time and never have to worry about those horrible "CFC card to slow" or "tempo to fast" messages. When programming your FCB, please remember the useful possibility to assign two midi commands to one foot pad. First I was using one pad to change EDP speed between HalfSpeed and FullSpeed but now I have found a good reason to use two pads instead and keep a program change command as well on each pad. So pad one gives me HalfSpeed and program 3 (set to 16 8th/cycle) while pad two gives me FullSpeed and program 2 (set to 8 8th/cycle). This means that any midi clock gear synced to the EDP will not go down to half tempo or up to double tempo when I'm doing tempo jump recordings into the EDP. On the combo bank EDP/filter I have only the one speed button to toggle between the two speeds without changing EDP bank. So then I'm not locked into using only two EDP banks all the time. Well.... Just a couple of hints. Hope it makes some sense... didn't mean to post that much really ;-) -- Best wishes Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.looproom.com On 03-12-09 23.04, "mark francombe" <mark@mark-red.com> wrote: > Hi, > having probs finding what I need in the archives, but Im sure it must be > there.. heres the Q. > > I have a repeater and use a fcb1010 pedal to control it. TOday my shiny >new > EDP turned up and I really need to get them buttons under foot control >and > fast!!! BUT Im having trouble. The manual is a little all over the >place. AND > I still want to use the FCB to control the Repeater... is this a prob??? > > Ive selected NOTE in control/source, Ive left the default Source# as 36 >(why > would I change it???) and gone in to the FCB1010 and made a note preset >on 2 > (D or "record"). It has no effect on the EDP but (of course ) the >repeater > changes pitch cos the repeater uses NOTE info to change the pitch... I >cant > seem to figure out how to change the midi channel on a specifc >pedal,(well > actually it cant) and therefore the whole pedal is set to channel >1.(Which I > am using for repeater). > > Now I AM getting midi to the EDP cos it was synching to my drum-machine >no > prob, The pedal doesnt seem to do anything on it tho... even if I ignore >the > repeater prob... > > Now IM SURE that many of you have exactly this config, One looper not >being > enough as everyone knows, so do you all really use a different foot >controller > for each looper??? > > Pleas Help, I KNOW im missing ALOT about the EDP without foot control, >If I > have to dump the repeater from FCB1010 control I would do it, cos I >still have > one of those little digitech puppies that actually worked fine... BUT >REALLY I > WANT BOTH!!! > > exasperated Englishman in Norway > > Mark.