Description

The idea is to select a track (1-5) for recording using buttons 6-10.

Use button 1 for starting/stop clip record on empty clips or stop/start clip play.

Use button 2 to launch the next clip (record or play)

Buttons 3 and 4 move the scene selection up and down. Button 5 triggers undo.

V1.2 Notes

I've hooked up the Pedal Simulator and created a floating window for it so it's usable even when the track selection moves.

Note: it appears that for pictctrl that you can have a toggle that isn't perfectly square, so I haven't made the leds latching for the 5 track selectors, but that shouldn't be a problem in use.

the pan and volume are connected (respond) to the incoming physical FCB1010 expression pedals and they will directly control volume and pan. But they do not respond to direct manipulation of the live mixer controls... I'll fix that later.

V1.1 Release Notes:

This is work-in-progress patch for recording and playing loops in Ableton Live.

Only the first Patch (00) is working. Each FCB1010 Button (1-10) should be mapped to MidiNotes (0-9)

Buttons 6-10 will select Track 1-5 (respective) and exclusive (to tracks 1-5) enable record. Any other track (5 or higher) that has record enabled will remain enabled.

Buttons 6-10 will also send out a Patch Change message (0-5) to an external device. I'm using a Line6 HD 500. So this changes the patch on the HD at the same time as rec enabling the track. 5 different tracks = 5 different HD500 patches.

Button 1 fires the clip

Button 2 fires the next clip

Button 3 selects previous scene

Button 4 selects next scene

Button 5 triggers an Undo

If you open the patcher, you can see that I'm working on control over recording a track from a looper on a previous track and stopping the looper at the end of the clip record. The goal is to be able to record drums on the fly to set a loop and song tempo then record guitar tracks. I'm recording drums through a looper, then trying to put the loop in a clip. This is unfinished - it current may miss the begging or end of the loop.

I've built a nice Presentation UI of the FCB1010 with working buttons and expression pedals. It's currently not hooked to anything, but could be made to mimic the pedalboard if you wanted to wire it up that way. Or steal it for your own (attribution requested)

Comments Welcomed.