Standard FCB1010 as a foot controller.

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I am new to MIDI, so if my question manifests ignorance, sorry.

Just point me in the right direction and I will leave you alone.


I bought a used FCB1010 foot controller, and I must say I am amazed at how easy it is to get immediate results in MuLab.

I have the standard firmware chip, and MuLab finds every foot switch and expression pedal just fine (albeit they often have odd names that don't make sense, but I can live with that.)

I can easily assign a parameter of any single factory preset effect to, say, an expression pedal using:

Options -> Edit MIDI Controller Map -> <select the factory preset effect of my choice> -> Listen to MIDI

I then just move the pedal or click a foot switch.


Bam...instant control for that parameter in that single effect. MuLab finds the pedal or button without a
problem, and I change it as I see fit.

I can also control various parameters within the same effect simultaneously from the same expression pedal or foot switch.

But if I try to control the parameters of several different effects (VSTs etc) at the same time with the same
button or expression pedal, only the single effect highlighted in the rack is controllable, with the others just stuck at some persistent value.

I get a similar problem when I try to use two expression pedals to control different parameters within the same effect.

...and in case you haven't guessed, I am playing a guitar through the VST effects.

Thanks ahead of time for any advice.

John

PS
I will be glad to post the solution in "newbie-speak" should anyone help me.

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Good question!

If you want to use MIDI controllers that are always active independent from the current MIDI input focus, then put the mapping on the session MUX level, as that's the highest modular level. You can do so using the "Edit Session MIDI Input Controller Map" function in the MuLab -> "Session" menu.

I've added this tip to the relevant doc page: http://www.mutools.com/info/docs/mux/us ... llers.html

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You the man!

Easy as pie.

I now have a working 2-effect stomp box rack (if that is what proper jargon calls it) using the free version of MuLab and my used and totally-unprogrammed-by-me FCB1010 foot controller (I mean "out of the box and I did nothing to it...and it even has ye olde 1.0 Firmware. So much for the need to have the latest gear.)

I literally know next to nothing about MIDI, and the most rudimentary stumbling about has yielded great results.

MuLab rocks.

I am now off to try and make a multi-rack setup, and use the foot buttons to turn various racks on and off as per the needs of different songs, or parts of songs.

I would like to show people how I made my little FCB1010-controllable 2-effect rack, but I don't know exactly what needs to be attached to a reply.

Is it just the .MuSession file? (I am using all stock effects. No 3rd-part VSTs or the like, and there is no audio either.)

This program is so very easy to use.

Very excited.

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A musession file contains all of the session including the composition, sequences, samples etc. In this case you could save/attach a rack preset. Right-click the rack name -> Presets -> Save Preset As. The resulting file will have the .MuRack extension. Others can then save the MuRack on their system and drag-drop it on the [+] rack button or on an existing rack.

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Here are just the MuLab files that go with my setup.

I will make a proper tutorial as it were, but the bottom line is this:

My Equipment is nothing fancy;

FCB1010 Foot Controller with the old 1.0 Firmware
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FCB1010.aspx (http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FCB1010.aspx)

TASCAM US-144MKII
http://tascam.com/product/us-144mkii/ (http://tascam.com/product/us-144mkii/)
http://tascam.com/product/us-144mkii/downloads/ (http://tascam.com/product/us-144mkii/downloads/)

My MULab is the free version.

As I said before: I did NOTHING to any of my equipment besides plug it in, choose a few stock presets (or just use what the programs found automatically) and that was that.

Any questions will be answered pronto, but I am going out tonight and won't be back until tomorrow morning.

Oh, if anyone can tell me how to do the following, much appreciated:

1.) Make 2 separate racks (did that in the attachment)
2.) Make it such that when I press "foot controller button one" my "BAX_RACK" turns on, and then the foot controllers control said BAX_RACK (and I don't care what foot controller button I use at all).

BUT

3.) When I press say "foot controller button three" my "RACK 2" turns on, and the foot controllers now control parameters in RACK_2, with BAX_RACK turning off of course.


Essentially I want to make multiple expression-pedal controlled racks that I can touch a foot controller button to choose between, whether they are on or off.

If I was unclear at all in any of the above, I will gladly answer anything my limited knowledge set allows.