MIDI foot controller?

Hey everybody! This is my first post. I play keys with the band Supermassive and just got my first MPC1000 last week. Damm this thing is fun to play with.

I have a quick question about a MIDI controller. Last night I was playing my guitar with the MPC and was having to reach down to mute tracks while I was playing (hassle.) So my question is... can you connect a MIDI foot controller that was maybe 8 triggers on it so that I could mute tracks with my feet while still playing my guitar?

Thanks,
Mac

www.supermassivemusic.com

Hey Mac,

That is a good question. I use a foot switch to go in and out of record when I am playing guitar with my mpc to deal with the same problems.
I have midi running off of my guitar, through the mpc to external keyboards.....it's dope!!! I know you can use a footswitch via the input in the front, but I only think you can do one pad at a time. You could use 2 footswitches to change tracks and then to mute them?
It seems like you could hook up a pedal and have 8 diff. midi triggers going to each pad via the midi note and then trigger the pads in the track mute page.
john

Sup fellas?

Yes, you can do this. You need a foot controller that TRANSMITS midi notes, not one that just sends program change information. When you get a pedal that transmits midi, it acts like a keyboard plugged into the midi jack.

Like so:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLPK5

and like so:
http://www.bananas.com/articledetail.as ... rol-Pedals

Just make sure the pedal you are buying is transmitting note triggers. Cool?

thanks john

yeah thats kinda what im thinkin.... im just wonderin if anybodys tried it.

mac

More on this:

The Behringer FC1010 will transmit midi notes. You have to tell it what each one of the pedals will do. (ie, pedal (1) will trigger midi not c1)

Here's the manual, check page 14.
http://www.bananas.com/multimedia/1769/ ... _Rev_F.pdf

Cheap too. Sells for $150 new.

"Yes, you can do this. You need a foot controller that TRANSMITS midi notes, not one that just sends program change information. When you get a pedal that transmits midi, it acts like a keyboard plugged into the midi jack. "

You can mute tracks with midi notes?
I didn't think that was possible.

No, not mute samples...just trigger them.

I haven't tried this but maybe you could just tap the mpc pads in mute mode with yer foot? the pads might start to stink after awhile, but could work for what your trying to do.

I don't know for sure because I don't have it in front of me, but the MPC 1000 manual has a whole table of parameters than can be changed via MIDI (either CC or note on/off, depends on the parameter). If you find Track Mute in that table...then you can do it.

ok..so ..Is there anyone who have already used a footcontroller and the mpc1000 in track mute mode ?