Controlling many loopers with the same pedal?

[TheAnimal]

Hi loopers,

I was thinking about buying a Boss RC50 and now Live comes with a built-in looper. How nice!

Now I have a question: I'd like to use a midi foot controller with 8 free pedals to

- switch between tracks where each track has a looper

- control each looper with the same set of pedals

For example I'd like to use the first three pedals to switch between track 1,2, and 3 and have another 5 pedals assigned to record, overdub, play, stop, and x2.

Is that possible? (And how?)

Cheers,

TheAnimal

[replicant6]

BUMP

I am wondering the exact same thing. Please tell me you can do this... if not... how crippling!


R6

[rbmonosylabik]

Well, how you do it depends on what foot controller you are using. Usually, MIDI controller devices work by banks, where each bank can hold a different set of settings for your pedals. So, the easiest way to do it would be to set up 3 consecutive banks so the pedals send different CC/Notes, MIDI map each of those banks to the loopers, then simply changing your bank up and down to select which Looper you want to control at the time.

[replicant6]

Good idea. I had actually thought of that last night. I know that one of the settings of my Axiom49 allows the knobs to control whichever track instrument/plugin has focus, by being on a certain midi channel. Maybe that would work too...

[madlab]

Well, how you do it depends on what foot controller you are using. Usually, MIDI controller devices work by banks, where each bank can hold a different set of settings for your pedals. So, the easiest way to do it would be to set up 3 consecutive banks so the pedals send different CC/Notes, MIDI map each of those banks to the loopers, then simply changing your bank up and down to select which Looper you want to control at the time.

that's what I do with a FCB 1010 and 4 loopers.