FL Studio live mode and foot controllers I have just installed the new FL Studio 10.5 beta that includes the new live performance mode. This differs from the old live playlist mode completely. The old live mode just mapped the patterns in the old-style playlist to keys on your midi controller. In a previous post I experimented with using the…

Live PA configuration with FL studio I’m playing around with a few different setups for my upcoming live PA stuff. I’ve been using FL Studio since back in the v1.0 days and I’ve discovered recently that it has a new live mode that is in the upcoming 10.5 beta. However I also wanted to give it a try using the…

FCB1010 programming hints I just wanted to share a few thoughts now that I’ve gone through and programmed the first bank of presets on my new FCB. One of the things that I wanted to do with my foot controller was to play bass lines using my feet. I figured since the switch layout of the FCB was staggered, more…

Behringer FCB1010 configuration notes I just got an FCB1010 to add to my live rig and I figured I’d be stomping away by now, but apparently I didn’t look into exactly how this pedal was designed before I got it. It turns out that it works entirely differently than I was expecting. At first I was really upset and I…

Kick Plate MIDI foot pedal build notes I’m in the middle of getting my prototype Midi foot controller put together so that I can play around with it and practice without worrying about it falling apart in the middle of a session. I’m mounting the Arduino inside a plastic junction box. Check out the following photo: Some issues I ran…

Kick Plate load cell MIDI controller I’ve been working on a new Midi foot controller concept that uses a pressure-sensitive load cell as the control source. I got the idea for a pressure-sensitive Midi continuous controller from looking at the McMillen stuff and from my Korg NanoPad, which uses resistive pad elements. Sometimes I put the NanoPad on the floor…

Alesis dual zone snare trigger teardown I recently purchased an Alesis DM6 electronic drum kit. I haven’t posted much about it yet, but one of the things that I was wondering about was how they implemented their dual-zone snare drum trigger. If you hit the stick on the rim of the pad you get a different sound than if you…

Simple USB Midi footswitch using Arduino I wrote about getting USB Midi working on the Arduino recently, and now here is my first attempt at getting it to do something useful. I have a momentary pushbutton installed in a small plastic junction box from the hardware store. I need to update my prototyping techniques notes here, as I’ve begun to…

Arduino USB Midi As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m working on a new foot controller concept (which I’ll reveal soon). As part of my initial research I thought it would be pretty awesome if there was some way to get my controller to show up natively as a USB Midi device instead of using Firmata or some other serial interface which…

Targeting the Atmega48 with Arduino toolchain I’ve been prepping for a new foot controller project that I’m using the Arduino on. I had a few small things that I wanted to note here since It seems that I haven’t written a lot of this stuff up. It so happens that I have a bunch of Atmel AVR Atmega48 microcontroller chips…