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by nolus » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:11 am
After much deliberation I bought the Yamaha MFC10.
I think it's discontinued but you can still pick them up.
has 10 buttons and 1 expression pedal, you can connect additional footswitches to it and it has an input for a wind controller.
reasons to buy: smaller than the FCB, reasonable price, big illuminated numbers on each switch, well constructed, it's made by Yamaha.
reasons not to buy: like most of these systems it's not really designed as a trigger device but more as a patch selection device for guitar fx etc. it can be configured to trigger clips etc, but the little red light on each button just tells which one you last pressed, they can't be used to indicate the status of some feature in the software - eg so that you can see at a glance which loops are currently active.
personally I think the market is wide open for a pedal board specifically tailored for controlling sequencer functions.
"That very perceptive of you Mr Stapleton, and rather unexpected... in a G Major"
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but there is really no space.