Boss VF-1 Effect Processor

Hello,

I just bought a Behringer FCB1010 and a Boss VF1. Now I'm trying to 
use the FCB to toggle effects on/off. I really can't figure out what 
midi commands to send. The MIDI implementation card doesn't make any 
sense to me.
Thanks in advance, greetings,

- Richard -

On Sat, 24 May 2003 15:29:51 -0000, richard72nl wrote:

Hi.

>>I just bought a Behringer FCB1010 and a Boss VF1. Now I'm trying to 
>>use the FCB to toggle effects on/off. I really can't figure out what 
>>midi commands to send. The MIDI implementation card doesn't make any 
>>sense to me.

Just find out which MIDI CC#s the FCB sends on which buttons and then
set the VF-1 up in a way that it responds to those CC#s.

Mit freundlichen Gr\ufffd\ufffden / With kind regards

Thorsten Kowalski

--- In BossVF1@yahoogroups.com, "Thorsten Kowalski" 
<thorsten_kowalski42@y...> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2003 15:29:51 -0000, richard72nl wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> >>I just bought a Behringer FCB1010 and a Boss VF1. Now I'm trying 
to 
> >>use the FCB to toggle effects on/off. I really can't figure out 
what 
> >>midi commands to send. The MIDI implementation card doesn't make 
any 
> >>sense to me.
> 
> Just find out which MIDI CC#s the FCB sends on which buttons and 
then
> set the VF-1 up in a way that it responds to those CC#s.
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards
> 
> Thorsten Kowalski

Thanks,

I've been playing with it the whole evening and now it seems to work 
OK. But this means that you can only assign 4 buttons/pedals to 4 
functions in the VF1? Isn't there a way to assign buttons/pedals 
direct to midi-functions? I mean without using the assing functions. 
Now I have one pedal for Wah, one for Volume and I need one button 
to switch wah on/off (the wah should automaticly go off when the 
value of the pedal is 127). This means that I only have one button 
left for switching another effect on/off.
Please someone tell me I didn't get it.......
Greetings,

- Richard -

On Sun, 25 May 2003 06:44:31 -0000, richard72nl wrote:

Hi.

>>I've been playing with it the whole evening and now it seems to work 
>>OK. But this means that you can only assign 4 buttons/pedals to 4 
>>functions in the VF1? Isn't there a way to assign buttons/pedals 
>>direct to midi-functions? I mean without using the assing functions. 

Unfortunately this is the case :-(
I had different ART units over the years and you could assign at
least 9 different MIDI CC#s.
I had 5 CC#s for ON/OFF stuff, and a pedal because that was all my
Rocktron MidiMate would let me.

For me the four CC#s are enough as I play bass and usually don't have
loads of FX :-)
At least you can assign the CC#s your MIDI board sends to different
things in each patch...

>>Now I have one pedal for Wah, one for Volume and I need one button 
>>to switch wah on/off (the wah should automaticly go off when the 
>>value of the pedal is 127). This means that I only have one button 
>>left for switching another effect on/off.
>>Please someone tell me I didn't get it.......

Maybe firmware version 1.12 fixes this? I installed it yesterday but
didn't have time to play around with it.

Does anyone have a list of changes for 1.12?

Mit freundlichen Gr\ufffd\ufffden / With kind regards

Thorsten Kowalski

--- In BossVF1@yahoogroups.com, "Thorsten Kowalski" 
<thorsten_kowalski42@y...> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003 06:44:31 -0000, richard72nl wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> >>I've been playing with it the whole evening and now it seems to 
work 
> >>OK. But this means that you can only assign 4 buttons/pedals to 
4 
> >>functions in the VF1? Isn't there a way to assign buttons/pedals 
> >>direct to midi-functions? I mean without using the assing 
functions. 
> 
> Unfortunately this is the case :-(
> I had different ART units over the years and you could assign at
> least 9 different MIDI CC#s.
> I had 5 CC#s for ON/OFF stuff, and a pedal because that was all my
> Rocktron MidiMate would let me.
> 
> For me the four CC#s are enough as I play bass and usually don't 
have
> loads of FX :-)
> At least you can assign the CC#s your MIDI board sends to different
> things in each patch...
> 
> >>Now I have one pedal for Wah, one for Volume and I need one 
button 
> >>to switch wah on/off (the wah should automaticly go off when the 
> >>value of the pedal is 127). This means that I only have one 
button 
> >>left for switching another effect on/off.
> >>Please someone tell me I didn't get it.......
> 
> Maybe firmware version 1.12 fixes this? I installed it yesterday 
but
> didn't have time to play around with it.
> 
> Does anyone have a list of changes for 1.12?
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards
> 
> Thorsten Kowalski

Thanks again,

I fixed the problem with the Wah. I programmed it so I can use the 
wah and turn it on/off with the same expression pedal (it's in the 
manual). That cost me two assing parameters. I use the other two for 
the second pedal (reverb on/off and level). And the switch buttons I 
have to use for program-change, because there are no assignments 
left. Slightly different from what I was intended to do but I'm OK 
with it.
I still don't understand why it isn't possible to make control 
changes without using assignment 1-4.
But I'm still learning, and still I think it's a great piece of 
equipment. I still have to test it on stage but I think it will do 
well.

Greetings,

- Richard -

On Sun, 25 May 2003 11:32:51 -0000, richard72nl wrote:

>>I fixed the problem with the Wah. I programmed it so I can use the 
>>wah and turn it on/off with the same expression pedal (it's in the 
>>manual). That cost me two assing parameters. I use the other two for 
>>the second pedal (reverb on/off and level). And the switch buttons I 
>>have to use for program-change, because there are no assignments 
>>left. Slightly different from what I was intended to do but I'm OK 

Which "switch buttons"? Behringer?

>>I still don't understand why it isn't possible to make control 
>>changes without using assignment 1-4.

It's just Roland/Boss :-(

>>But I'm still learning, and still I think it's a great piece of 
>>equipment. I still have to test it on stage but I think it will do 
>>well.

I got mine some weeks ago and have to program it before our next gig
which is due on June 8th...
But at least I have vacation the week before and I don't need so much
fx playing bass.
I usually have compression and switch on octaver or chorus once in a
while.

Mit freundlichen Gr\ufffd\ufffden / With kind regards

Thorsten Kowalski