Cheap foot controller for Live?

kennyT · Post by **kennyT** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 11:46 pm

I have been fooling around with live. I am a singer/songwriter/guitarist and would like to gig using live for loops and drum beats. I need to control live using a foot controller. I figured out how to use scenes and I think I just want to set up a scene for each section of the song. Then use the foot controller to progress to the next scene when I am ready.

I tried using my cheap RFX midibuddy. But it can only send program change or song messages. Live doesn't reconize these messages.

Any suggestions on a cheap foot controller to use with live? I though of getting a fatar MP113 pedal board. But I don't really need a organ-like foot keyboard. I just need ten stompable buttons that can be assigned to note on or controller messages. Target price $100.

Thanks,

kenny

Link · Post by **Link** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 1:44 am

Behringer FCB1010. Solidly built, 2 expression pedals, more versatile than the Roland unit costing 3 x it's price. Bargain.

Regards

Link

bigbadotis · Post by **bigbadotis** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 6:43 am

the behringer is great, so much cheaper than anything else out there, yet still built extremely well.

And it's only 40 dollars more than that rolls thing, you get so much more...

wisemonkey · Post by **wisemonkey** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 7:55 am

Hi Kenny,

I've got a Roland FC-200 footpedal (organ style) which goes for about $350 but is probably more than you'd need - I haven't seen the Behringer pedals, and so can't comment on that. The reason I'm responding to your post is that I am trying to use live to do the same thing as you are - I'm a keyboardist (singer/songwriter), but both of my hands are too busy to switch between loops.

My question to you is, how will you get between songs? This is what I'm trying to work out - I can assign my footpedals to trigger a set amount of scenes (eg - verses/choruses/etc)...but - what I'm trying to work out is how to move to an entirely new set of scenes for each song.

Any ideas?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:23 pm

Thanks everyone,

I downloaded the Behringer FCB1010 manual from the unofficial web site. It looks like it will do what I want it do to. It has a twenty page manual. It looks like it takes several steps to program each of the presets to send a midi "note on" message.

http://www.altrion.org/fcb1010/

The two continuous controllers are a bonus. I could use them for mix controls or plugin parameters.

WiseMonkey: The number of scenes is unlimited. So theoretically you could have several songs in one live set. Turn off "loop" in each clip for a tag ending scene. Then trigger the next scene to start the next song.

Only problem is that each scene in the set plays back at the same master tempo. This works well for dance music, but if you are songwriter like me, every song is a different tempo. So I have to store each song in a different "set" and must go back to the computer to open the next song. This only take about 3 seconds if you leave the file browser open in Live.

Cheers, kenny

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:00 am

I'm also interested in controlling live using a foot controller. How did the Behringer work out?

Cheap foot controller for Live?

Cheap foot controller for Live?

another vote for the behringer

foot controller/songs & sets