Hello first of all. New here and just received my MC6 in the mail other day. It's beautiful. I can see myself even getting another one down the road. I am currently using a behringer FCB1010 with eureka prom chip that is programmed with 4 basic modes. My goal: keep my fcb1010 in EF (effects mode) so i basically have all those buttons for effects on/off with my Axe FX II. I want to use the MC6 for scenes/looper essentially.
How i'm connected: Axe fx midi out > FCB1010 midi in > fcb1010 midi out/thru >MC6 midi in > MC6 midi out/thru > Axe fx midi in. Theres the loop which seems simple enough.
My issue: some strange behaviors with my fcb1010, now no longer bidirectional- not telling me what effects are on/off. In fact, the button leds now just flash like its all confused. also sometimes when i press a switch on the fcb1010 it changes banks on the MC6.
Please tell me i'm missing something very simple here. I"m not a midiot but i'm not midi guru either. settings i should change on axe fx? 'ignore redundant pc messages"? i did enable midi thru on the MC6 upon startup. any thoughts/suggestions?
Cheers
So it seems it might be a limitation with the eprom on my FCB1010. Was talking the guy from Eureka Sound and this setup is a bit problematic...mainly in terms of keeping bidirectional states. Normally to do this it the Axe Fx midi thru is turned off in two midi cable method. I have both working not too bad together now and that was mainly just using different midi channels assigned for the FCB and MC6 respectively. I love this MC6 and how programmable it is. I'm not a midi genius at all but i'm starting to wrap my head around it and see the possibilities.
I'd love a 10 button version of this with bidirectional abilities. (midi probing) i think its called. to be able to let me know what states are on/off. I have my Axe FX also connected via Axe -Edit (USB) at all times and the other thing i need to figure out is how to have Axe Edit reflect the changes i'm making in realtime via the MC6. When i just had the FCB1010 connected it was able to do this somehow. I will likely end up getting another MC6 and daisy chain if possible or hold out to see if you guys come out with a slightly larger pedal ....like a 10 button version! yes??!!! wink wink nudge nudge!