Aug 22, 2011 5:02 AM
Midi Control over Podfarm 2 with FBV Express mk II
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Just thought I would take an opportunity to help anyone with Midi control issues using the above. A few weeks ago I was new to Midi and finding the info you need to use it can be very piecemeal and rather misleading and confusing. Now I have an angle on it and have managed to use it sucessfully but if I had had the right info in the Manuals to start with things would have gone much smoother and I would not have had to go to the trouble of sending back what was possibly a fully functioning pedal believing it was malfunctioning. What they dont tell you in the manuals is that Podfarm only recieves Midi CC messages and not Bank & Programme control messages as it states it does in the lieterature. What it also does not say is that you cannot basically just select a Midi CC number to assign to each pedasl it actually has to be a specific number . these magic numbers that the pedal & Podfarm recognises are only Midi CC command 1, command 2, Command 3 & Command 5. Command 1 & command 2 are associated with the A/B & AB switches respectively. The others which you may want to change from Global Commands are the Setlist are already associated with setlist next and Program change commands. freeing these up gives you greater opportunity to switch to Local command controls to switch your Fx on and off. I spent ages trying to load in Bank Change and Program change controls to get the FBV to send these to Podfarm but dont waste your time it dont work. Use Midi CC all the way and associate the command as 1,2,3, & 5 with your switches A to D. As I sai i already sent a pedal back thinking it was faulty because it failed to associate Bank & Prog controls with the Podfarm application. It wont do the bank , incremental, decrimental stuff it only does the Midi CC Toggle thing. Also the FBV controller states it comes with a loadable preset to help get started with Podfarm but it doesn't work because it has the wrong values in. it doesn't even have the values that it states it does in the manual and even when you put the values it does have in the Manual into it it still dont work because these are Incremenatl decrimental bank Change and & Programme change messages & not Midi CC. Also when you look at Podfarm manual it states that some control is already set up on Midi CC 20,21,22,23 or 26. this is complete rubbish as stated the CC already set up and associated with the A/B & AB and setlist changes etc takes place on Midi CC commands 1,2,3,5. I spent ages unravelling this misinformation. When changing any Midi commands using Midi Learn other than Pedal functions make sure you use Midi CC command 1,2 ,3 or 5 only to do this then you will be able to makle your FBV Express Pedal work for you. here Endeth the Tutorial.
If you got something from this tutorial say so by hitting the Like button. One more thing i noticed is that the FBV control program never seems to recognise my FBV pedal this is a bit weird. It is working but it states that 'No L6 device has been connected or recognised' Thats strange as it does what its supposed to despite this misleading message.
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