Roland FC-300 midi setup

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tim@sa
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Roland FC-300 midi setup

Post by tim@sa » Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:23 am

Please can someone help me with the midi setup of my FC-300 to Ableton. I connect my FC-300 via a Roland UM-ONE USB midi interface to my MacBook.
I contacted Ableton support and they said that the FC-300 is not a natively supported Control Surface in Live. They directed me to the "Creating your own Control Surface script" webpage. However I have no idea how to format the UserConfiguration.txt file. Has someone got a copy of this file which is working for their FC-300?

stringtapper
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Re: Roland FC-300 midi setup

Post by stringtapper » Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:58 pm

What are you trying to do? Using the FC-300 in Control mode is dead simple to map pedals to functions using Live’s MIDI mapping.
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tim@sa
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Re: Roland FC-300 midi setup

Post by tim@sa » Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:33 am

I am trying to use it to start scenes in Ableton. I was using the "Standard" mode.

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Re: Roland FC-300 midi setup

Post by catalyticFishee » Tue May 02, 2023 10:07 pm

stringtapper wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:58 pm
What are you trying to do? Using the FC-300 in Control mode is dead simple to map pedals to functions using Live’s MIDI mapping.
any chance of a tip on how to get this running, please? i've got the RC-300 with a Roland UM-ONE midi interface into a MacBook USB port but ableton doesn't seem to recognise it.

with the RC-300 in "CONTROL" mode and ableton (v11) in midi map mode, hitting the pedals does nothing. previously, i've used the midi mapping function with both an m-audio keyboard and a launchkey without any problems, but there's no "Roland FC-300" to choose from the control surfaces list in the preferences for midi linking, so i'm not sure how to get them talking.

anything you can suggest?

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Re: Roland FC-300 midi setup

Post by stringtapper » Fri May 05, 2023 9:27 pm

You're not going to see the FC-300 in the preferences because it can't connect directly via USB. You should see the UM-ONE in the MIDI devices under preferences. That needs to have "Track" selected on its Input section.
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