Hi all, I was looking around recently for a foot controlled midi controller. The more expression pedals the better. I was under the impression that the expression pedals have a range of 0-127 (is this correct?). I was hoping to map as many expression pedals to a controller number each in order for each pedal to control some aspect of an external.
The only midi controller I could find which had a decent number of pedals was the fatar mp117. The review in sound on sound didn't really leave me a good impression. Also this model seems to be more about playing an octave of a piano with feet as opposed to arbitrary assignment and control. Anybody have any suggestions?
Best regards, Conor
moin Conor,
On 2007-08-06 23:56:30, Conor J Curran forward@forwind.net appears to have written:
Hi all, I was looking around recently for a foot controlled midi controller. The more expression pedals the better. I was under the impression that the expression pedals have a range of 0-127 (is this correct?).
Yep, that's what mine do.
I was hoping to map as many expression pedals to a controller number each in order for each pedal to control some aspect of an external.
The only midi controller I could find which had a decent number of pedals was the fatar mp117.
... looks cool, but also very much like an organ-emulator rather than an expression pedal bank.
I recently got a behringer fcb1010, which has 2 expression pedals, 10 bang stompers, and 2 vestigial stompers (device-internal use only). I've been using the bangs (via [pgmin]->[route]) to select where the expression pedal data goes (via [sprinkler]), which works quite well. the device itself is cheap but poorly constructed: in particular, the expression pedals use a good 80% of their physical range for maybe 10% of the data range ... with only whole byte values, that's a serious pain ... but hey, it's behringer: what did i expect?. I think roland and yamaha also make 1-2 expression pedal multi-bang stompboxes along the same lines, but have never used them.
If I had the time, I'd get an arduino and a mess of burned out wah pedals on ebay and solder my own ;-)
marmosets, Bryan
Hi Bryan, Sorry for the 3 month delay in responding to this :) . I bought the CME GPP3. One expression pedal, two switches. Seems a little flaky, gets itself in a muddle and needs to be restarted to get it going again. Quite cheap though and looks and feels lovely. I must take a look at the behringer as of when the time comes where I need more expression pedals. All the Best B, Cj
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 00:51 +0200, Bryan Jurish wrote:
moin Conor,
On 2007-08-06 23:56:30, Conor J Curran forward@forwind.net appears to have written:
Hi all, I was looking around recently for a foot controlled midi controller. The more expression pedals the better. I was under the impression that the expression pedals have a range of 0-127 (is this correct?).
Yep, that's what mine do.
I was hoping to map as many expression pedals to a controller number each in order for each pedal to control some aspect of an external.
The only midi controller I could find which had a decent number of pedals was the fatar mp117.
... looks cool, but also very much like an organ-emulator rather than an expression pedal bank.
I recently got a behringer fcb1010, which has 2 expression pedals, 10 bang stompers, and 2 vestigial stompers (device-internal use only). I've been using the bangs (via [pgmin]->[route]) to select where the expression pedal data goes (via [sprinkler]), which works quite well. the device itself is cheap but poorly constructed: in particular, the expression pedals use a good 80% of their physical range for maybe 10% of the data range ... with only whole byte values, that's a serious pain ... but hey, it's behringer: what did i expect?. I think roland and yamaha also make 1-2 expression pedal multi-bang stompboxes along the same lines, but have never used them.
If I had the time, I'd get an arduino and a mess of burned out wah pedals on ebay and solder my own ;-)
marmosets, Bryan
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