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Everyone, even our WarMonger-In-Chief [Mein Fuhrer Obama], knows that Corporate America is evil. Yes, evil. That adjective accurately describes an entity which would place profit above human life --- above love, truth, and justice. Sadly, most of my fellow Americans are no more than what the Matrix movies correctly portrays as a Coppertop --- a good slave, living in a prison that you cannot see or touch or taste or smell, existing symbolically as a Duracall Coppertop battery --- existing only to empower the Matrix by either their silent or active consent. Ah, but a Coppertop dares not allow other slaves to wake up, take the red pill, and say [gasp ... in public!] as I do every day of my life that ... The Emperor Has No Clothes! Years, no decades, I have watched and I have seen America --- the country of my birth --- turning more and more into little more than a tool by which the _evil_ Corporate America destroys all that is good and righteous in this world. You have not yet admitted it, but even you know perfectly well that there is something fundamentally _evil_ with an entity which would create pretend money out of thin air, con the coppertops into working their entire lives and exchanging all that real wealth [labor] for their worthless fiat money, and then using that stolen wealth to buy our politicians [Obama, Bush (daddy and son), Clinton (husband and wife)]. Being bought and paid for by the campaign donations of the _evil_ Corporate America, our sellout elected leaders then proceed to kill, torture, displace, starve, and poison the Children of Zion. Indefintely detaining innocent people for years in torture chambers like Gitmo Bay --- denying those poor souls even the dignity of taking their own lives to escape the tyranny of the Evil One. And chasing those of us who wake up and take the Red Pill all over the planet [snowden, Assange] to Shut Us Up. Some of us, it kills [swartz, Hastings]. Others it imprisons [Manning, Hammond]. But We Will Not Shut Up! A long as We have breath in our bodies ... As Long As One of Us is Still Alive ... We Will Fight For Zion! If that means making it impossible for Coppertops like you to find anyplace --- not even on the Internet -- to deny that 'there is no spoon' ... So Be It. The Matrix ... do you want to know what it is?

The FBV MK II has, in addition to the RJ45 jack, a _standard_ USB port. Even more important to this discussion, that _standard_ USB interface talks MIDI. Which means the FBV can talk MIDI [directly or indirectly] to any other MIDI device. As a matter of fact, as I type this right now, I have the USB port of my FBV MK II cabled to one of the USB ports on my Macbook and am using an open source diagnostic program called MIDI Monitor [http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/] to capture and decode MIDI messages from my FBV on my Mac. And I am using the same program to capture and decode MIDI messages from my _standard_ USB MIDI attached Peavey VIP amp. It would be a trivial issue to route MIDI msgs between the FBV and VIP and there are programs out there which can perform that MIDI thru function for you. I use the FBV's _standard_ USB MIDI interface to control my DAW [Ableton Live]. And, as mentioned in my previous posts, there are also programs out there which will route MIDI between two WIFI computers. Since Line 6 sells the FBV with a _standard_ USB MIDI port, and since there are people like me who are using the FBV to control non-Line 6 MIDI products, I assumed that Line 6's engineers were bright enough to have designed their amps to be controlled by the FBV's _standard_ USB MIDI. If that is not the case, if Line 6 is using the FBV's _nonstandard_ RJ45 interface to control their amps, that is just a really dumb engineering decision which, again, highlights how and why capitalism is ruining Corporate America. I can just imagine being a fly on the wall during a Line 6 strategy meeting while some bean counter got out his calculator and figured out how many pennies they could save by using the _nonstandard_ RJ45 port to control their amps. Such abuses are best remedied by replacing your Line 6 amp with a better engineered one that uses a _standard_ MIDI interface. My Peavey VIP 2 amp talks MIDI thru a _standard_ USB MIDI port [same port used by the FBV], and only cost $200 --- less than half the price of Sweetwater's wireless MIDI solution. Those who are realy hurting for a wireless MIDI solution might look into using a VIP with the FBV. I am currently working on coding a open source app [for my personal use] to control the VIP with a FBV. I had not previously considered making it wireless compatible --- but this exchange has nudged me in that direction for no other reason than to prove a few coppertops wrong and, perhaps, convince a few others to wake up and take the red pill. "Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. Neo: What is the Matrix? Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."

Woke up early this Sunday morning, browsing the Net because I can't get back to sleep, and ran across this thread. My thoughts ... 1) Being an retired network engineer, I cringe inwardly when someone says something is not possible or practical just because it has never been done before. This world is full of engineers whose income depends upon their being able to figure out how to do what has never been done before. 2) Any reasonable bright high school kid with a pair of wire cutters, a soldering iron, and access to google.com can figure out how to use his lunch money to buy the parts from Radio Shack necessary to route power from a couple of AAs thru a couple of pins on a RJ-45 cable. If you can't figure it out, ask one of your kids, or their friends, for technical assistance. 3) As someone else mentioned, there are already OEM boxes out there like the one Sweetwarer sells. But at a price of $450? I hate capitalism and everything it stands for. Here in America, we slap paint on the fatted calf of filthy lucre, change its name to capitalism, and use that glorious notion to justify murdering thousands of Muslims with unmanned drones to defend the right of BP and Royal Dutch Shell execs to continue earning their multi-million dollar bonuses. But I digress ... 4) There is also a Way to solve the problem without hiring your kid or his friends for their technical assistance: MIDI cable a LINE 6 amp to one computer which does WiFI. MIDI cable a 2nd computer which does WiFi to a FBX Express pedal. Route MIDI signals between the two computers over WiFi. Apple OS X has features that can do this. There is Open Source software call rtpMIDI which does the same thing for Windows.