Foot Pedal Advice: OT as Looper+

GovernorSilver · 2014-03-14T18:11:13.000Z

""Accent"":

You may want to check out this thread: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/869189-octatrack-foot-switch-compatibility.html

Poor guy, feeling so neglected there. I never had a Gearslutz account and just don’t go there because MW, Elektronauts, and Ohhpeewon.com pretty much cover everything I need.

RubixGroove · 2014-03-14T19:27:20.000Z

Wow! This thread ended up being a wealth of information for me. I really appreciate it all, fellas!

AtaRaxis · 2014-03-16T03:26:58.000Z

I just came across a used FCB 1010 the other day at guitar center used for cheap and picked it up. Great piece! Easy to use, seems to be built to stomp all over. Perhaps a bit overkill for looping alone with the expression pedals and all, but I assigned one to Active Track Level and that’s pretty cool to do swells and stuff.
Anyway, which ever you choose, I say choose one! The foot control has reinvigorated my OT love in a big way. Initiating recording with both hands free, whether looping or sampling is a huge deal. (even if you’re not a guitarist) Most times my golden sounds come at me mid tweak

miketheman · 2014-03-16T18:30:13.000Z

[quote="“AtaRaxis” date=“2014-03-16 03:26:58"”]
I just came across a used FCB 1010 the other day at guitar center used for cheap and picked it up. Great piece! Easy to use, seems to be built to stomp all over. Perhaps a bit overkill for looping alone with the expression pedals and all, but I assigned one to Active Track Level and that’s pretty cool to do swells and stuff.
Anyway, which ever you choose, I say choose one! The foot control has reinvigorated my OT love in a big way. Initiating recording with both hands free, whether looping or sampling is a huge deal. (even if you’re not a guitarist) Most times my golden sounds come at me mid tweak
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Slaughtrhaus · 2014-03-18T20:19:35.000Z

[quote=“” GovernorSilver""]

[quote=“Accent”]You may want to check out this thread: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/869189-octatrack-foot-switch-compatibility.html
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Poor guy, feeling so neglected there. I never had a Gearslutz account and just don’t go there because MW, Elektronauts, and Ohhpeewon.com pretty much cover everything I need.

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Actually, I’ve found Gearslutz to be quite beneficial myself. There’s tons of stuff people have already figured out and posted, along with some pretty cool music to find in member’s soundclouds, etc.
It took a while for anyone to respond over there because not that many people are using pickup machines in general. I ran the same thread here and got half the replies and info, in spite of it being Elektron-specific. Gearslutz is huge by comparison.
It can be a little acidic at times, but there is always an element of that present in largely anonymous online communities.
Anyway, my foot-controlled sampling rig is fully functional and awesome thanks to Disaster Area Music. I highly recommend their products. Great build quality and second to-none customer service.

GovernorSilver · 2014-03-19T19:19:23.000Z

Ah, fair enough (re: Gearslutz)

Glad to hear you got your pedal situation sorted. The Disaster Area stuff looks cool!

pbmember · 2016-02-25T23:57:52.000Z

Hi Jes,

I saw you posted about the disaster designs controller awhile back.
Are you still using it with the Octatrack?
I purchased a disaster designs DMC-8D with Octatrack firmware preloaded last year.
I haven’t been able to communicate with my Octatrack yet.
I’ve contacted disaster designs a couple of times, but they haven’t any help.

Do you have a DMC-8D?
Does it still work well with the Octatrack pickup machines?
How is your midi sync and/or channels setup?

Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

mokomo · 2016-02-26T06:17:58.000Z

or if you have even very basic soldering skills buy an arduino/teensy, as many guitar pedal buttons as you need for the OT, a midi socket, some wires … and create a very easy script. Plus a little bit of carpentry to build your box however you’d like it.

I’ve done this and it works very well.

novacz · 2016-07-05T00:06:57.212Z

Hi,

I’m a newbie in this forum, therefore I don’t know that this question was on the forum before.

I like to use my OT as a 8-track looper/sequencer on stage with EWI and Wavedrum. So I haven’t got any hands to control the OT looper buttons.

Anybody can offer me a good midi foot controller with switches (MIDI note on/off function possibility for OT)?
Except the Behringer FCB1010 controller!

The Moog Multipedal MP-201 would be excellent, but unfortunately it hadn’t been made anymore.

Any idea?

clunky · 2015-11-05T15:22:04.000Z

I’ve got a Roland PK 5 and a Korg Mpk 130, the roland has the most features.

You’d need to llok into the specs to see if it can do what you want.

PeterHanes · 2015-11-05T15:33:44.000Z

""novacz"":

Hi,

I’m a newbie in this forum, therefore I don’t know that this question was on the forum before.

I like to use my OT as a 8-track looper/sequencer on stage with EWI and Wavedrum. So I haven’t got any hands to control the OT looper buttons.

Anybody can offer me a good midi foot controller with switches (MIDI note on/off function possibility for OT)?
Except the Behringer FCB1010 controller!

The Moog Multipedal MP-201 would be excellent, but unfortunately it hadn’t been made anymore.

Any idea?

Some previous threads:

http://www.elektronauts.com/t/ot-as-looper-foot-pedal-advice/4162

http://www.elektronauts.com/t/kmi-soft-step-for-ot/323

novacz · 2015-11-05T22:59:49.000Z

Thank you for all!
I look for this tips and I hope I will find the perfect solution for it.

parmtree · 2016-10-03T20:29:06.248Z

Hi all. New to this so please forgive me if this question turns out to be stupid. I’m trying to find solutions to use a foot switch for my OT so that I can use my guitar to record some live looping. I have an M-Audio “Uno”, and was wondering if I could use it in conjunction with a Logidy UMI3 to control the OT? I’d also have to get an adaptor for the USB, as the Logidy is “Type B” and the UNO is USB 2.0.

Any idea if this would work?

alfred · 2016-10-03T19:41:41.552Z

It won’t work. You’d have to hook up both the M Audio Uno and the Logidy to a computer.

avantronica · 2016-10-03T20:28:47.014Z

Foot-switch setup for OT

wondering if I could use it in conjunction with a Logidy UMI3 to control the OT?

You’d need a USB Host device, there are a few discussions on those

And I’ll move this to an established thread on this topic (i.e. here)

If you’re into hacky Arduino maker stuff, this would be a trivial and cheap project btw

sloppy23 · 2016-11-01T09:49:16.132Z

Hi everyone,

Is that possible to control scenes / fader by midi foot pedal like FCB1010?
FCB1010 seems to have two foot pedals which I belive sending programable 0-127 value CC?
Can OT’s scenes / fader control by external MIDI CC?

Thanks in advance

j_tana · 2017-01-25T18:41:29.133Z

Hey guys

 I'm sure this has been coverred again and again but anyway, I'm curious what my fellow OT users think is the best foot switch for doing hands free loops with the Pickup machines. Nothing fancy, just a simple couple of switches that take the place of the Rec  A-B and Rec C-D buttons . I'm not familiar with pedals so I don't really know whats out there. Is there just like a stompbox with a midi i/o cable on the end? Cuz that'd be convenient...

j_tana · 2017-01-25T19:33:09.638Z

perfect! thanks! so the DMC-7 looks pretty great.

Duumvir · 2018-01-07T14:02:54.463Z

As an update information, here is a question i asked the guy’s from disaster area and their reply:

Hello out there,
i have an Octatrack MK II and want to buy a MIDI Controller to work with the Pickup-Machines from OT - can you recommend me one of your units?
I’m absolutely not a specialist in MIDI things, so i would appreciate a simple solution.
Thanks for the reply in advance!

Cheers, Jürgen

And their answer:

Hello Jurgen,

Thanks for your email.

Unfortunately, none of our devices will currently support the Octatrack.

If there is anything else we can do for you, please let us know.

Thank you,

Drew Smith
Customer Support

Gaia.Tree · 2018-01-07T16:46:28.280Z

Yup, I’m curious why they dropped support. Maybe one of the staff was a frustrated ex-OT owner?