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I'm using ik bluebird and it's been OK but I'drather have buttons more raised aand possibly made of metal. Positive grid had one in the pipeline but not sure what happened there. They are both bluetooth which is nice.
The softstep one looks good but not for me. I'm not a big fan of double rows i think you need a foot like a chimp to take the full advantage.
Edit: positive grid bt4
I just took a closer look at the bt4 and notice it has a guitar in and an audio out! I thought it was just a controller. Very, very confused. Anyway google shopping returns no hits.
You can actually connect 2 expression pedals to the blueboard.
Phew, I finally brave through the video. It is a good tutorial but musically it made my teeth ache. The Lo fi sound did not help. He uses the expression pedal to set the volume which I think is a brave thing to do. You know @AfxTwn this behringer pedal isn't too shabby, there's plenty going on there and the controls are big which is nice but unavoidably that makes the whole unit ginormous. On the other hand it is good to have all of the bindings controlled by one unit.
Has anybody had success using The Moog EP-3 p dal with the IK Blueboard? For some reason, I can only get it to work with the pedal direction reversed, that is toe down on the pedal registers heel down in the IK software. Other configurations do not work at all. I tried with a second unit and had the same issue. IK couldn't resolve either. It would be great to know somebody had this setup working.
I'm pretty happy with my FCB1010 -- I connect it to an old iPhone, and then use that to send MIDI to my iPad over Bluetooth. I'm working on an editor app for the FCB; I was hoping to get it done this summer, but got sidetracked on other projects. With a bit of coffee, I'll be able to get it out the door.
The Behringer is built like a tank, and fairly inexpensive. The big PITA is programming the thing, which is why I started working on an editor.
Are you going to be able to support the UNO chip?
Short term support will be for the "stock" FCB. I don't have the Uno chip, so I don't have an easy way to test things. I'll probably add support for it later (but there seem to be four or five different flavors of FCB firmware -- this might turn into a support hassle).
Long term, I'd like to have an FCB configuration that simply sends a single MIDI message for each pedal and configuration. The app can catch this, and then convert the incoming MIDI into whatever controls you might want -- sort of like the Uno mod, but without having to drop in a new chip. The "smarts" that can be put into the FCB are limited by the processor that's inside of it; the iPhone is a lot less constrained, and there's a bunch that could be done with an app in the middle of the connection.
I'm happy with the FCB1010 + Loopy as well. I hook it up via MIDI Interface -> camera connection kit or via the original Line 6 MIDI mobilizer and MIDI Bridge.
I'd suggest mapping out how you want to control Loopy (Nice available bindings list here) and then ensuring the controller you want to use can accommodate that.
and I'd be very happy with an editor for it @secretbasedesign! It's a surprisingly robust machine but it does suck to program. You don't really have to program it much to get it work with Loopy as loopy is so kind with MIDI learn.
I missed that sonic touch. Love how excited Gaz is about loopy.
Sorry for noob question, but how do you connect the FCB1010 to an ipad? Does it do USB or is it a midi cable, and either way do you need something in between? Was just going to get a Blueboard but now I'm not sure. Witht the Blueboard are you stuck with 4 midi signals or can you use one of the pedals to change the other 3?
The FCB1010 has the old style round 5-pin MIDI connectors on it, and no USB. The basic device has been out for a looooong time, and hasn't changed much -- but there are a bunch of different mod chips that can be installed. I use a cheap USB-to-MIDI cable, plus a CCK, to connect to my iPhone. Then wireless MIDI from my phone to my iPad.
If you don't need the connector on your iPad, or you have a dock that has MIDI inputs, you could plug directly in. With my iPad, I'm using an Apogee Jam -- so I need an alternate way to get MIDI from the FCB to the iPad.
Could you not use the usb to midi cable directly into the ipad?
I presume the midi to usb converter could be plugged in with other devices via a powered hub.
@Fitz said:
You can't plug USB directly into an iPad, that's what the CCK is for.
Yes, I understand that. I meant instead of via the iPhone as in SecretBaseDesign's set up. just not sure why he's doing that.
@Fitz said:
Because the port on his iPad is in use via the apogee.
@secretbasedesign I would love if you made a more general controller editor app. For example I built some pedals on top of nanokontrol and nanokontrol II PCBs which I can only map on the mac now. Same thing with the Steinberg cmc pd that I built into my doubleneck guitar/bass... It would be fantastic to be able to remap these on iOS or load different presets depending on the apps. I sold my FCB 1010 with uno chip because it was so huge and such a pain to program.
@SecretBaseDesign said:
good idea. Although personally I'm fine with the FCB as it is.
@munibeast - there are several remapping App options; MidiBridge, TB MIDI Stuff, Midi Designer, Lemur, ...
A cool, heavy duty foot pedal that not a lot is spoken about is the Logidy umi3. It is class compliant, midi mappable, and has an expression pedal jack. It comes with Mac/PC editor software.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002YL81RW?pc_redir=1411832040&robot_redir=1
@Munibeast said:
Wow that sounds intense! Got any photos?
I'm very happy with the SoftStep v1, the old one. It's crazy how many midi-routing-possibilities this thing gives. Working with it for almost two years, and still blown away. I only recently started controlling loopy with it, mostly use it for Thesys-control and triggering pressure-controlled sounds in Animoog etc. Maybe the older versions sell cheaper now, that there's the v2...?
@syrupcore said:
Ok. I just don't have an iPhone to use. Does anyone use this with a powered hub?
@Zymos said:
I think we could assume that cck is almost like an extension of the ipad. Usb hubs seem to be quite happy to flawlessly accept audio and midi data so I think the apogee could potentially work alongside the midi dongle to which fcb would be connected. I'm talking about this thing here. They're extremely cheap.
Yes, of course the hub allows audio and midi together! I use a keyboard and an audio interface. I'm just looking for some reassurance I think. I'm just thinking Blueboard (or 2), versus the FCB1010. And it looks like the FCB at the moment. Durability, more pedals (even with 2 Blueboards), added expression pedals, no fighting bluetooth...
You're right fcb looks more stage worthy. Does it actually have a battery inside or is it psu powered? It also remains to be seen whether the usb to midi thing actually works in this configuration. For me form the factor and wireless operation still makes blueboard the winner but it will all depend how much of a foot control do you need. When I loop I only use blueboard when my hands are busy playing the guitar otherwise I use my mpk mini mappings.
If any of you owners of fcb have anything to report regarding its use with usb midi it would be appreciated.