First FCB1010 malfunctioning in five years

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Pedal calibration resets all pads to MIDI channel 1.

I just discovered my first malfunctioning of the eminent but slightly  
overweight MIDI control pedal board Behringer FCB1010. Except that my  
first FCB died after four years this is the only issue I have had  
with this cheap pedal. A week ago I decided to set up a patch in  
Bidule that duplicates some of my favorite EDP functions with the  
Augustus Looper plug-in and I have been working on the Mac since then  
on this patch. So today I finally had enough of programming and felt  
that I just had to commit some fearless looping activities with  
Mobius or I would go insane. When I booted up the PC none of my  
Mobius MIDI bindings worked.... bummer. Must be at least a hundred.  
So I popped the FCB into the Mac and had a look in MIDI Monitor and:  
Oops - everything is sending over MIDI Channel 1 instead of 10, 14  
and 13 that I had set up my FCB for. And the stupid part of this is  
that I had been programming some seriously brain hurting stuff in  
Bidule on the Mac without even thinking twice about my FCB pedals  
sending over new channels. So now I need to go into the damn pedal's  
global mode to change two MIDI Channels whenever I move from Bidule  
on my PC to Bidule on my Mac. Dammit! ;-)  So, as for the bottom  
line, before this Mac week I noticed that the MIDI expression pedals  
did not send all the values when sweeping some parameter so I  
calibrated the FCB. Obviously the pedal calibration did a reset of  
all "pads" to MIDI Channel 1. This was not the way my first FCB  
behaved, so I thought I would mention it here because it's a new "FCB  
bug" and many of you are using this pedal.

per