I discovered various editing programs but those for Mac users had a very pointed “no FCB/UNO support” notice at the top. Last night I was trying to solve this problem. Trouble is with the FCB1010 you need to do a dazzling amount of intricate footwork to program it from the board itself – we’re talking Fred Astaire levels of footwork here. A while back I bought one of these ROMs and fitted it (I can’t remember why originally) so I’d got the Stompbox functionality.
It requires a little bit of surgery on your FCB1010 but it does come with some super additions including something called Stompbox Mode which does exactly what I’m after. use a button to send one CC to switch on, then another CC to switch off.Ĭue the FCB/UNO replacement ROM. However, it doesn’t work in a “toggle” mode – ie. Out-of-the-box it sends Program Change (PC) messages, but it can be configured to send Control Change (CC) and even note on/off messages. My FCB1010 footboard is a configurable MIDI controller. I knew I’d have to do a lot of fiddling around to see what worked or not. The MIDI implementation is sketchy at best – although the X32 firmware is up to v3.something now, MIDI implementation beyond v1 is barely documented. Being able to use my pedalboard to knock those in and out would be key. There are four effect inserts (FX1.FX4) which I have set up on four of the sixteen buses (BUS12.BUS16), as it comes out-of-the-box. It’s a pretty impressive piece of kit, save for a few little things involving XLR clips getting stuck (solution: remove the clips, job done) and for the secondhand price it’s great. It’s got tons of features – configurable buses, USB interface, ethernet (which I can connect to a wireless adapter and control from a tablet on-stage). The Behringer X32 Compact is a digital sound desk, one of several variants which stretch from huge production desks down to a rack version principally designed for use with a PC.
#BEHRINGER X32 EFFECTS PLUS#
I’ve just embarked on the tech for the new show – it won’t tour until 2020 (in support of album 3) but I need to get my head around it all, and as a friend was selling their digital desk plus would let me be 100% satisfied it’d do what I wanted, I took a plunge. I really needed to be able to save settings, hence a requirement for a digital desk. I was constantly amazed when I got to the end of a show and nothing had gone wrong (however minor). At one point the effects unit did something weird and packed up halfway into the second song. Venue engineers would want mic output separate to the instruments. Sometimes someone would zero out my settings, leaving me to work out what was going on. Occasionally a helpful stage-hand would disconnect all my cables for me at the end of a show. There were a few issues with this setup: it was heavy, unwieldy, everything had to be in a hard flight case as it was all cabled up. This meant I could switch programs on the FX2000 from reverb, to delay, to echo and also stack effects. On the 2018 tour my stage rig centred around an analogue desk (a Behringer X2222USB Xenyx desk) which I augmented with an FX2000 rack effects unit, controlled via MIDI from a FCB1010 foot controller.
While I do have a laptop and tablet on-stage, I need to toggle effects in a hurry, sometimes mid-sentence. My upcoming shows are becoming increasingly complex so I acquired a better sound desk, and set about attempting to get my existing pedalboard to talk to it.Īs piano is my main instrument my performances hinge around the ability to control several things hands-free. Being the sole member of my band The Bleeding Obvious I have to do quite a lot on stage when I perform “full electric” shows, so I use pedals to activate various things.
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