Comments on: How to program a Behringer MIDI Foot Controller FCB1010 for Ableton Live

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:08:05 +0000

VERY COOL! Thank Jess! Sorry I was just now able to read it. My wife and I just had a baby on Wednesday . Thanks so much for the post!

By: Jess Gulbranson

Jess Gulbranson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:07:30 +0000

Hey Jeremy, here is the post where I mentioned you! Hope you like.

http://crappyindiemusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/valley-of-cheap-beats.html

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:39:25 +0000

I would be honored Jess. Thanks for offering. Let me know what you need from me! Thanks! Listening to Coeur Machant right now. AWESOME.

By: Jess Gulbranson

Jess Gulbranson — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:31:54 +0000

Hey Jeremy, I’m doing a post on the blog I write for, Crappy Indie Music, highlighting some friends of mine who have released great free albums recently. Just wondering if you mind me putting some Wayside Drive up? Might steer some people your way…

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:58:01 +0000

Thanks David!!! I really appreciate it. I love being able to share what I’ve learned as others have done for me. Keep it up, thanks!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:43 +0000

Wow thanks Jess! I’m not a big MIDI head myself. Or very technical in general so I thought I’d lay it out very plainly for others like myself. I really appreciate it. I checked out your book on Amazon. Wow! That looks quite cool! I might have to pick me up a copy.

Cheers.

By: david

david — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:30:02 +0000

Thank you so much for your work! i searched a long time to see the most impressive tutorial of the web about fcb1010. thanks to you (and marc who show us how to map basic midi event like rec, play current clip etc.. and note on). Now, it works perfectly with my live 8 ! I can use my fcb1010 like a sampler !!

David,
France

By: Jess Gulbranson

Jess Gulbranson — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:02:18 +0000

Hey- so essentially, this was the most helpful blog post I’ve seen in a long time. I just got the FCB1010 and was totally overwhelmed, as I’m not a huge MIDI head and most of the tutorial’s I’d seen ended in failure. This one was clear and concise. I ended up using one of the freely available editors and that made the process even simpler. Now I actually feel confident to use those 9 unused banks and play around with Guitar Rig, etc. Thanks again, Jeremy!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:37:31 +0000

Hello Jay and thank you! We are all noobs at some point . The BPM can be anything you like. You change the BPM on the top left next to the “tap” button. It should be a default of 120. Now if you need to change the BPM within the same project there’s a way to do that too. The # of bars is also set by you. There’s another button on the top that should be a default of “1 bar”. That means the loop will start recording at the next bar if the session is currently playing. You can adjust it to be anywhere from 8 bars to 1/32. Now the length of your loop is up do you. It will keep on recording until you stop recording.

And yes it’s recording actual audio into your session. You can change what type of audio you want to record like WAV or AAC. You can also loop MIDI parts which can save some computer juice if your session is hefty.

Now for muting tracks, you can either manually go in an click the mute button on that track, or if you have a MIDI controller that you’re using you can MIDI map one of your controls to select a mute button or even the volume fader (which is what I do).

Hope that helps!

By: Jay Legaspi

Jay Legaspi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:06:18 +0000

Hey Jeremy

Just wanted to say thank you so much for so many enlightening articles! I’m really digging your stuff!

I had a few questions if you don’t mind regarding your setup– forgive my noobness, since I just got into ableton recently (as in…. 3 days ago haha).

1. In your setup, does it require you to already have a BPM and # of bars to record determined?
2. Super noob question- but are you actually recording audio as you loop? I ask because I’m looking at using the Looper effect, which doesn’t necessarily record anything into the actual project.
3. In your setup, do you have anything that let’s you mute tracks?

Thanks so much! Keep doing what you’re doing