Per Boysen
06-29-2010, 08:53 PM
If you use a MIDI pedalboard like the Behringer FCB1010 you might set up several banks of commands that specialize on certain aspects of live looping. But some general commands - like Overdub and Multiply - is handy to have available in many different pedalboard banks. For many years I have solved that my setting up my external MIDI foot pedal board to have several buttons sending the same MIDI Note. This Note then assigned to a function in Mobius.
But today I came to think about a much better way! Simply make scripts that duplicate the commands and assign the duplicating pedal buttons to those scripts!
The good side of this is that you can keep the pedalboard with all MIDI Note numbers in the right order, ie not duplicating any, and this makes the same pedalboard optimally useful with a lot of other software than Mobius. I like the idea of a clean and logical pedalboard setup and then making project specific settings in the software used for the day.
Here's an example of my dirt simple "Overdub Duplicated" script:
!name Overdub Duplicated
Message Overdub
Overdub
next
Saved inside the pc's Mobius scripts folder as a text file called "Overdub Duplicated.mos" and then imported and assigned a MIDI Note in Mobius.
But today I came to think about a much better way! Simply make scripts that duplicate the commands and assign the duplicating pedal buttons to those scripts!
The good side of this is that you can keep the pedalboard with all MIDI Note numbers in the right order, ie not duplicating any, and this makes the same pedalboard optimally useful with a lot of other software than Mobius. I like the idea of a clean and logical pedalboard setup and then making project specific settings in the software used for the day.
Here's an example of my dirt simple "Overdub Duplicated" script:
!name Overdub Duplicated
Message Overdub
Overdub
next
Saved inside the pc's Mobius scripts folder as a text file called "Overdub Duplicated.mos" and then imported and assigned a MIDI Note in Mobius.