howto start stop loop in beatmaker 2 drumpad with FCB1010 pedal

Question

The FCB1010 pedal can only give note on/off ;as long as I hold the pedal down it plays the loop but I want it to start playing the first time I press and stop playing the next time I press down.

I thought mididesigner was able to do that but I can not figure out how.

Comments

Hi Ron,

The FCB1010 pedal that you're describing is "momentary" and you want to translate it to type "toggle." MD is set up to handle this singular situation.

The short of it is: put a pedal mapped to that note-on/off on a pedalboard and make it a toggle. That toggle, because it's on a pedalboard, will react to a momentary button on external hardware (your situation).

That toggle is then the supercontrol of a button on a regular MIDI Designer page. The button the regular page is the one you want to map to Beatmaker, NOT the pedalboard button.

Pedalboards are exposed by sliding the current page "up," but you have to enable that option in Config -> Pedalboards (you should probably enable for design-mode only).

I will try to elaborate more later on today (hopefully with screen grabs and that), but here you've got enough instructions to get you there.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!
Dan

Answer 1

My comment:

The FCB1010 pedal that you're describing is "momentary" and you want to translate it to type "toggle." MD is set up to handle this singular situation.

 

The short of it is: put a pedal mapped to that note-on/off on a pedalboard and make it a toggle. That toggle, because it's on a pedalboard, will react to a momentary button on external hardware (your situation).

 

That toggle is then the supercontrol of a button on a regular MIDI Designer page. The button the regular page is the one you want to map to Beatmaker, NOT the pedalboard button.

 

Pedalboards are exposed by sliding the current page "up," but you have to enable that option in Config -> Pedalboards (you should probably enable for design-mode only).

 

I will try to elaborate more later on today (hopefully with screen grabs and that), but here you've got enough instructions to get you there.

User response:

Yep I send a cc message with my fcb1010 to a pedalboard button and that button supercontrols a normal button that sends a midinote out to beatmaker.....works like a charm haha. (I have a Axiom pro keyboard that functions as a midi port)

Answer 2

My comment:

The FCB1010 pedal that you're describing is "momentary" and you want to translate it to type "toggle." MD is set up to handle this singular situation.

 

The short of it is: put a pedal mapped to that note-on/off on a pedalboard and make it a toggle. That toggle, because it's on a pedalboard, will react to a momentary button on external hardware (your situation).

 

That toggle is then the supercontrol of a button on a regular MIDI Designer page. The button the regular page is the one you want to map to Beatmaker, NOT the pedalboard button.

 

Pedalboards are exposed by sliding the current page "up," but you have to enable that option in Config -> Pedalboards (you should probably enable for design-mode only).

 

I will try to elaborate more later on today (hopefully with screen grabs and that), but here you've got enough instructions to get you there.

User response:

Yep I send a cc message with my fcb1010 to a pedalboard button and that button supercontrols a normal button that sends a midinote out to beatmaker.....works like a charm haha. (I have a Axiom pro keyboard that functions as a midi port)