I recently purchased the Boss FS-6, which has two footswitch buttons. What I would like to do is have three tracks across labeled Guitar1, Guitar2, etc. When I hit the foot switch I start to record in the first track, when I hit the footswitch again it starts playing. I then use the second footswitch to move to the Guitar2 track in the same scene, where I record something into that slot with the footswitch. When I'm done I have the same effect as the looper plug-in, but I'm now able to manipulate the tracks.
The current solution I've seen thrown around for this is to map to the launch scene control, then have it start recording on scene launch. This works well, but it records clips going down different scenes rather than across. I feel like going across is more functional.
Thanks for any help!