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Default LED state for stomps on power-up?
Kenny Lohr
Hello all!
I'm using the Uno 1.0.4 software in a somewhat atypical way. For the most part, it's working great. One last detail I'm hoping to resolve, but it's not a tragedy if I can't...it's still working really nicely. I'm using the FCB1010 with Uno to control my Ableton Live set, with multitrack backing tracks. I've mapped controller messages to go to previous locator, go to next locator, start and stop playback. To start the next song, all I have to do is tap pedal 2, then pedal 3. Works really well. I just realized as I'm typing that I could do this on just one pedal, so maybe I'll improve that. Anyway...Stompboxes work very well for turning tracks on and off, since this gives decent feedback at a glance which tracks are active and which aren't, even without bidirectional communication. Most often it's the click track I want to turn off, for example when there's a drum track. Or turn it back on when I or someone else needs a cue. For various reasons I like the flexibility of turning guitar tracks on and off, and I may decide to turn the bass track on and play something else. The only minor issue with all that and using stomps is getting the track status sync'd with the LEDs. It looks like the stomps default to "off" when the FCB is powered up. The workaround I came up with is to make sure I save the Live set with those tracks disabled, so when the Live set is opened and the FCB is turned on, the two are in sync. Then just turn on the tracks I need using the foot switches. Not terrible at all. I realized I might be able to just take an available preset and have it turn all the stomps on (and not send any messages), and that's ehh...OK. I'd give up my only available pedal (in the bank anyway) to avoid stomping 4-5 pedals, which only takes a couple seconds during setup. Maybe combining the messages for 'next locator' and 'start playback' will free up some pedals and that will make more sense...assuming there's nothing I'm missing. My question comes in here... I've read the manual, and maybe the logic with the available tools isn't apparent to me. Is there a way to have the stomps default LED status "On" when the FCB is powered up? Or maybe even better...define what each stomp's state is on power-up? |
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savilior@...
I believe you can use INIT_BANK to initialize the states:
e.g. INIT_BANK Abelton = { SwitchOn Track1 SwitchOn Track2 SwitchOn Track3 SwitchOn Track4 } |
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That looks like the perfect solution. Seems like that would require Uno2 and the accompanying editor though, correct? Is there a way to do this using Uno1.0.4?
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:27 AM <savilior@...> wrote:
I believe you can use INIT_BANK to initialize the states: |
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savilior@...
Oh, sorry. I missed you are using the 1.0.4. Yeah, that would require UnO2 that comes with the editor. I don't know about the 1.0.4 :-)
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ossandust
No, that's not possible with UnO firmware, you would need to do a click to initialize the LED states
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