Control both Kemper and DAW by 1 midi fcb

Bilinguitar · April 2, 2017 at 1:48 AM

Hi! I have Kemper coming on Tuesday! I want to get a midi device to control my daw (4 buttons: start record, go back to start of timeframe, up/down tempo). I would also like it to be able to control the kemper at the same time, at least to switch between profiles and stomps.

Would this be possible through only one unit such as the fcb-1010? Will I just need to get 2 midi devices?

I was thinking fcb pedals 1-4 would be for the daw and 5-10 for the kemper. Maybe I could use some kind of midi signal splitter? Not sure what would work.

Thanks!

drog · April 2, 2017 at 5:45 PM

You can do this with a Voodoo Lab Ground Control. You can control multiple midi devices.

paults · April 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM

Using two FCB1010 may be cheaper and easier to program than one more powerful controller.

Bilinguitar · April 3, 2017 at 12:50 AM

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll just look for a smaller one for the daw only. Unfortunate that it's not as simple as a splitter or something

drog · April 3, 2017 at 1:05 AM

Maybe look into a daw control surface, one that also has footswitch. FaderPort one for example.

OldShredderhand · April 3, 2017 at 1:43 AM

You can go FCB to MIDI in of the DAW machine, and remap the FCB output into arbitrary commands towards DAW resp. KPA.
On Windos there is MIDIox, no idea about Apples.
The DAW itself should also be able to do this, I know at least Studio1, Cubase and Sonar offer such MIDI mapping facilities.

P.S. TouchDAW for Android is cheap and nice but I dislike using a touchscreen with my foot