For no other reason than it was “availableton” I opted to use a FCB1010 midi foot controller, a decision I almost regretted when I started to try and programme it. I decided that I wanted to program it to trigger the scenes in Ableton Live. The FCB1010 can send or receive any midi message. After reading the manual I decided to program the FCB1010 to send a midi note from each foot switch. This means assigning a note to each foot switch on each bank. I will not go into detail on how it’s done however, bank 01 footswitch 01 sends note G0, bank 01 footswitch 02 sends note G#0 each footswitch programmed to send a note ascending chromatically. For this project all messages are on channel 1.
FCB1010 Midi Foot Controller Tascam USB Audio/MIDI Interface.
The FCB1010 now needs to be connected to the computer. This has to be via a Audio/MIDI Interface which enables the foot controller to ‘talk’ to Ableton Live. Now to assign MIDI foot controller messages to Ableton live. Turn on Midi Map Mode Switch (as shown) highlight the control you want activate – in this case scene 1 Intro. Now press the button on the foot controller that you wish to assign in this case Bank 01 Button 01. This now shows as 1/G0.
A good start here on your area of experise and the challenges of getting the foot controller working with Ableton. As you get further with this, you should aim to update this post with information on exactly what you used the controller to do within Ableton, and why this was an essential part of your project. Also, to enhance your post it would be good to see some photos of the foot controller and overall setup that you intend to use.
Comment by bssblogger — June 3, 2008 @ 9:56 pm