Actually i agree with you, i bought yesterday the FBV MKII and i had also this not very appriciate surprise. I dont think would be really so difficult just allow users to assign to each pedal (A-B-C-D) a preset tone from GearBox! What i would suggest is to send as i did a remark to Line6 (the lnk posted up) asking for a patch that would allow this easy operation explaining also that, on my opinion, would increase highly sales of this product!

Let's push Line6 and hope they will soon implement thsi function because at the moment i consider FBV MKII Express potentially really good item but also useles without this functionality!

So one can change the full presets in PodFarm 2 but NOT in gearbox, eh?

I just brought the FBV Express MK 2 home and I purchased it for this very purpose. Very disappointing. But PodFarm 2 is able to change full presets with the amp model, effects etc,.   

Is that right?

Hmmm. I prefer Gearbox.

I came across this:

The guys at Line6 did a poor job of implementing MIDI (but hey it's better than nothing) - you would think they would let you assign a CC# to a preset and make your life easy.

Well they didn't!

=)

You can, however, grab a sysex dump from Gearbox when you change presets and you can use Midi Ox to send that data back to it!

Here's what you need to do:

Download Midi-Ox from here:

http://www.midiox.com/

And then:

Here's how to record and send a preset change.

1. Set midi device in GB options (mine is my sound card)

2. In Midi-ox, set GB as an input device in Options/Midi Devices (no output device or you'll have an endless loop).

3. Make sure "pass sysex" is checked on the Options menu.

4. go to View/Sysex and pick Sysex/Receive Manual Dump.

5. go to GP and load a preset.

6. go back to Midi-ox and the sysex window should have a bunch of hex numbers.

7. highlight all the digits, copy to clipboard and close Sysex window.

8. go to Options/Data Mapping, click Insert and enter all the input command parameters.

9. enter output type Sysex and paste the hex string into the Sysex Message window.

10. go back to Options/Midi Devices and select your midi controller as the input and GB as the output.

If you want to use a specific CC# as an input from your MIDI controller you need to select 'Ctrl' in your event type and type the CC# into the Min and Max under 'Ctrl #'.

That's it, sending a midi command should load the preset. You just need to run Midi-ox whenever you use GB.

But these instructions were made with a 'true' midi controller like Behringer FCB 1010 in mind.

Any reason that this would not work with the FBV Express Mk II?