Looper and footswitch

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hirse
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Looper and footswitch

Post by hirse » Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:47 pm

Hi all,

I use the icon g-board footswitch to control the looper (start, stop, play etc.). Everything works fine but I found no way to control the reverse button correctly.
I can assign it without problems, but the midi control doesnt work well. When I open the midi control assign window on the left side in ableton, the reverse button is not just a on/off button but a button with different values. I can change the minimum and maximum values from 0 to 127, this is very strange because the other buttons (start, stop, play, delete etc.) are simple on/off buttons. It seems that the reverse button is seen as dial encoder and not as a button.
I tried to set the minimum to 0 an maximum to 127 but that doesnt work. It sets the reverse button active but not inactive. I tried different settings but without any satisfying result.

Any help or suggestion how to control the reverse button with my footswitch?

fishmonkey
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Re: Looper and footswitch

Post by fishmonkey » Thu Aug 04, 2016 6:02 am

i have barely used Looper, but playing around with it, i can't see why the Reverse button maps to a range of values. maybe ask Ableton support?

hirse
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Re: Looper and footswitch

Post by hirse » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:42 pm

Yeah, I also think that Ableton should change that :D it doesnt make sense at all

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Re: Looper and footswitch

Post by yur2die4 » Thu Aug 04, 2016 6:10 pm

Are they all mapped to notes or all to cc?

Some buttons do have 0-127 options so that you can choose precisely when they turn off or on....actually I think that is usually in macros when they give you that option.

hirse
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Re: Looper and footswitch

Post by hirse » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:02 pm

The ableton support had the right solution for me. I had to change the footpedals message to toggle with the help of the pedal software. now the reverse button turns on and off with single press.
I absolutly hadn't thought of that :oops:

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