Looper: Strange behavior

[Nailosity]

I am having a lot of trouble with looper via MIDI.
I had started working on this but then stopped when I could not get it to work (no time to troubleshoot). But I finally spent a few hours on it already over the last 2 days.

Now, my mapped midi controller (and I've tried 2 - a control change and a note on) cause the looper to behave like this:

1 - tap starts looper recording
2 - If set to play: 2nd tap goes to overdub. If set to overdub then:
3 - after about 1 second, looper DROPS OUT OF OVERDUB (goes into play) - by itself - and if the loop is longer than 2 bars CUTS IT's LENGTH DOWN to 2 bars.
4 - any subsequent attempts to enter overdub mode a) don't add audio and b) drop out of overdub after approx 1 second.

This is VERY frustrating.

I will send a copy of this to tech support; have found no answers on the forum as of yet.

Thanks -
"Operator error is always a possibility"

[ItsAllSticky]

Hey Nailosity,

I had a similar problem and fixed it, helped someone else fix it too, sounds like the same so you may want to try. You're mapping the big multifunction button on Looper:

1. Enter midi map mode and map your pedal/button to the multifunction button.
2. Before exiting midi map mode, click the very bottom of the the screen and you'll see it change to offer a little drop down menu.
3. It's likely on "absolute," try changing this to any of the relative settings and see if that doesn't help. This worked for me when I was using a simple sustain pedal to operate it.
4. However, now that i'm using a Roland FC-300, I had to select the second "absolute" setting in the dropdown menu and that solved it. So you may have to experiment. Hope this helps man. You're not alone!

[Nailosity]

Hi Ian!

Thanks much for the response. I am also using the FC300 (killing pedal unit, BTW).
I noticed a similar response on another looper related thread and have tried setting the drop down menu (at the bottom) to a variety of settings, some which work, some which don't work at all.

What I've been trying to figure out is which works best: Controller messages or Note messages?
What I've found is: when using note messages a note off MUST follow a note on for it to behave correctly. How do you use your FC300?
I think the key to seamless efficient operation lies in the correct use of note/controller messages, and figuring out which ones LIVE prefers to see. i.e. I want to use one of the switches to turn "Reverse" on AND off (alternately). it ain't working yet.


(Also between work/family life, I just don't have time to sit for 4 hours and figure it out. I suspect I'm not the only one with this "problem". )

Anyway, thanks for the response. Will post info when I figure it out!
- Neil