I've recently replaced my home-brew foot controller with the FCB1010... One major factor was the expression pedals, which I can use to control hundreds of effects. Plus it's laid out nicely and offers 10 banks of 10 switches, all fully programmable with MIDI notes/control messages.
I still haven't fully got my head around MIDI but for now I'm using the FCB in conjunction with MAX/MSP in a similar way that Zoe Keating and Kid Beyond use their pedals. Often it's necessary for 2 or more actions to occur at once within Ableton Live, although you can program two note commands from one switch on the FCB, I've started using MAX to receive MIDI notes from the FCB and send them out to Ableton Live. This means I can not only send loads of commands at once but I can also just hit the pedals in order, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc meaning it's less likely that I'll mess up because I've forgotten which pedal does what!
It also means I can program some automation into the foot presses such as fade ins/outs...
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Hey I just googled to your blog, looking to figure out exactly how to do what you're doing. I'm hoping you walk specifically through the Ableton setup - seems you use a pedal to start and loop a track, then another to launch/arm another track, and so on. I have all the ingredients (AL7, FCB1010, chops), but not sure how they work together.c
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