I am looking at picking up a Behringer FCB1010 and want to use it very simplistically. I don’t want to program anything INSIDE of the pedal board. Say I have my Rackspace setup, I have a button, can I select the button, select MIDI, select “learn” tap say #1 on the foot pedal and have foot pedal #1 then control that button (whatever that button is designed to do). Or say I got to “Options” then “Global” MIDI and select Next Rackspace/Song” select “Learn MIDI for selected Item” and then tap say foot pedal #10 and have that control that function? Can I do stuff like this with Behringer out of the box without needing to program anything on the board itself? Just use it as a “dump” pedal to “learn” from the software?
By default, all buttons send program change messages. Without any configuration, you can select different rackspaces (variations) and songs (song parts).
That’s exactly the right way to use a pedalboard with GP…simple messages from the device, let GP interpret the messages.
The one thing I would suggest is to buy the Eureka PROM upgrade for it.
I have read a lot about different PROMs. So I can learn, since I want to do something so simple, what will this PROM give me that I can’t do out of box?
but what I want to do and how I want to use it won’t require any config on the board correct? I select “Learn” in GP, tap the pedal # I want and am good to go.
I have no idea what the buttons on that pedalboard send out by default. Ideally you want each button to send out a different CC message with a value of 127 when pressed and 0 when released.
It’s my understanding that that PROM makes it easier to configure the board
In my opinion, based on your requirements, I would say no.
As mentioned earlier, this controller sends out Program Change messages by default. In GP, Program Changes have a dedicated role to select rackspace variations or song parts. If you want to have it mapped to widgets or other actions like next/previous, then you want the controller to send Control Change messages for this. That will require some programming in the controller.
I bought one and immediately returned it. Too much of a hassle when the newer midi pedals do things so much easier. One that I found works basically out of the box is the xtone from xsonic..airstep and anything Morningstar are solid as well
Hey everyone, I’m brand new to GP. I have been using the FCB1010 for years to run BiasFX2 live. I have the upgraded EurekaPROM and run it in Fav Mode. So the top buttons run PCs 1-5 and the bottom have specific CC#s.
I have set up the CCs to switch to song parts, but I was wondering if the PCs go to that number song in the setlist? (PC1=Song 1, PC2=Song 2, etc) Or am I relegated to Next and Previous functions? I can make that work, but I’d rather jump to one of my 5 songs (I’m using it primarily in a church context and rarely need more than 5 songs at a time).
Thanks for the help!
On a related note, I leave my FCB1010 at the church and use TouchOSC at home for practice. I have replicated the FCB in TouchOSC with the same layout and MIDI values, however, it looks like GP can only listen to MIDI messages from one device at a time? Will I have to re-map my song parts every time? I only have Essentials so if Rig Manager is the answer I guess I’m out of luck. I can’t justify the upgrade cost for just that feature at the moment.
Yeah, I’ve got that turned on. I’ll take a screenshot of what I’m seeing when I get back to my computer.
That’s completely different — I thought you were talking about program changes.
If you want to control switching of parts from multiple devices, then use widgets to map to the appropriate parameters in a System Actions plugin and then map the widgets to your actual MIDI messages on your different controllers
This is documented in the user manual
Thanks, I actually just stumbled across that technique 10 minutes ago on accident but wasn’t exactly sure if I was doing it right. Thanks for that info!