Re: First FCB1010 malfunctioning in five years

[GORDIUS info <info@gordius.be>]

Hi Per,

this is indeed a bug in Behringer firmware v.2.4 and later. Before that 
version, you needed to go through a complete "selftest", including LED 
and switch tests, before you could start pedal calibration. (the 
selftest was initiated by keeping keys 1+3 pressed during startup) The 
newer firmware added a shortcut to do only pedal calibration (keeping 
1+5 keys pressed during startup) , but the code for that new function 
has some bugs, causing the global settings to get cleared....
It's a bug which was mentioned some time ago on the UnO forum 
(http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/fcb1010_uno/message/1108) , 
because the bug reporter first thought it was related to the UnO firmware.
Apparently the work-around is to use the full selftest instead of the 
newer calibration method (or make a backup of your global settings 
before calibrating...)

Grtz,
Xavier

Per Boysen wrote:
> 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
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