02-23-2019, 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-23-2019, 04:21 PM by Pdog.
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“I love it when a plan comes together” – ‘Hannibal’ Smith, The A-Team
I was discussing MIDI foot controllers that had “note-on,note-off” capabilities with my sales engineer at Sweetwater last week, and he returned with a couple of ideas, such as the Behringer FCB1010 and the Keith McMillen 12-Step and Softstep 2. If you have been following this thread. we have been discussing both of those. Steve has had some pretty good input so far, great videos.
I posted my first two attempts with the FCB1010 on Facebook, maybe you’ve seen the videos. I was keen on the 12-Step as it had 12 pedals arranged like an octave on the foot controller. The separation between the “white” keys and the “black” keys, if you will.
So I drove from Michigan to Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, IN to demo the 12-Step in person. I met with a sales engineer on the music store floor, showed him the NDLR and explained what I was looking to do. He had a demo unit plus the MIDI expander come out from the warehouse; we hooked up the units to the NDLR, then the NDLR to an Oberheim OB-6 (wow) and plugged everything in. I set the NDLR MIDI input channel to 1, assuming that’s where the foot controller was at, fresh out of the box.
THE 12-STEP CONTROLLED THE CHORD DEGREES AND THE CHORD TYPE CHANGES RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX !!! NO ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING WAS NEEDED !!!
I had two Sweetwater sales engineers, Scott and Colton, watching both the NDLR display and foot controller as I changed the Chord Degrees in real time. You could hear the OB-6 working away at the MOTIF-1 arpeggiator’s output (so did several customers). I demonstrated how you could change the Key and Chord type, the BPM, and the MOTIF-1 controls while the NDLR was "noodling away".
Then I started tapping the “black” keys on the foot controller, and watched as the Chord Type display changed as well as being able to hear the notes be altered. Just as the version 1.2 manual said (page 29).
HOORAY! Also, it was one touch to the pedal on the 12-Step to make the changes. Thank you to Darryl and Steve for pointing me in the right direction, thanks to the staff at Sweetwater for the support. It's been a pretty good day.
Facebook video to follow!
I was discussing MIDI foot controllers that had “note-on,note-off” capabilities with my sales engineer at Sweetwater last week, and he returned with a couple of ideas, such as the Behringer FCB1010 and the Keith McMillen 12-Step and Softstep 2. If you have been following this thread. we have been discussing both of those. Steve has had some pretty good input so far, great videos.
I posted my first two attempts with the FCB1010 on Facebook, maybe you’ve seen the videos. I was keen on the 12-Step as it had 12 pedals arranged like an octave on the foot controller. The separation between the “white” keys and the “black” keys, if you will.
So I drove from Michigan to Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, IN to demo the 12-Step in person. I met with a sales engineer on the music store floor, showed him the NDLR and explained what I was looking to do. He had a demo unit plus the MIDI expander come out from the warehouse; we hooked up the units to the NDLR, then the NDLR to an Oberheim OB-6 (wow) and plugged everything in. I set the NDLR MIDI input channel to 1, assuming that’s where the foot controller was at, fresh out of the box.
THE 12-STEP CONTROLLED THE CHORD DEGREES AND THE CHORD TYPE CHANGES RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX !!! NO ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING WAS NEEDED !!!
I had two Sweetwater sales engineers, Scott and Colton, watching both the NDLR display and foot controller as I changed the Chord Degrees in real time. You could hear the OB-6 working away at the MOTIF-1 arpeggiator’s output (so did several customers). I demonstrated how you could change the Key and Chord type, the BPM, and the MOTIF-1 controls while the NDLR was "noodling away".
Then I started tapping the “black” keys on the foot controller, and watched as the Chord Type display changed as well as being able to hear the notes be altered. Just as the version 1.2 manual said (page 29).
HOORAY! Also, it was one touch to the pedal on the 12-Step to make the changes. Thank you to Darryl and Steve for pointing me in the right direction, thanks to the staff at Sweetwater for the support. It's been a pretty good day.
Facebook video to follow!