the Randall one is more for midi-switching rigs, like where the guitarist has a bunch of different racks for his Van Halen effects, his Nitro effects, his Scorpions effects, etc.

the midi solutions one would work but you’d need four or five for what you’re talking about.

The softstep would be an option but i’m not sure if that’s a standalone item or if you’d need a laptop to run it.

The Digitech PDS 3500 would be an option but you’d need four of them and a midi merge box.

a modded Behringer FCB1010 would probably be the best bet.

Or there’s a roland one too, that’s a bit smaller than the 1010 but I can’t recall offhand what that one is.

yes, but your equipment has to be set up for it- there’s some physical circuitry wizardry going on with the digitech fs3x.

Don’t underestimate some rack stuff- you can use it as a floor for a pedal board or mounted under your board, especially if it’s just footswitches/triggers.

yeah yeah that works well too. when I saw EOTO last year, that’s what michael travis had done rather than buy another footcontroller. And yeah, i’m not a fan of having to rely on my computer for music work.

Otherwise if you are running into issues with that 300ms thing, you can use a mute pedal on one of the outs and use the panning to separate them.

Also i’m pretty sure there’s usb-to-midi hosting devices, just little boxes that’ll host midi stuff, but i’m not familiar with any of them so I couldn’t recommend any.

There’s some issue with the fcb1010 where its programmability is hindered so it doesn’t infringe on a patent or somethhing. It’s switching out an IC or two (or maybe an eeprom?). If they didn’t pass clock signal as is, you could always get a quadra thru and then merge boxes for clock+fcb signals. Not sure what you mean by 14″ out.

those run into the same problem as the Digitech PDS3500 though (minus that they’ll pass stuff through); you’ll need a bunch of them. I’d still say the FCB is the elegant solution and that modding isn’t that much of a problem; in fact, lots of people sell the modded ones.

Also, the 1/4″ in is for the EHX footswitch, not midi. I mean, it’s probably just using the ground as a voltage send and the tip as a voltage return, with different resistors under each of the fs’s stomps, but that’s not midi.

@Feralchild, thanks for the input. Sending information on more than one midi channel and setting each device to receive on a specific channel certainly sounds like a solution. I reckon we’ll still need two midi controllers in the long run but this should get us going sooner rather than later and i might look into controlling my rack reverb this way too.

@Cryabetes, I thought as much about the 1/4″ Jack input but thanks for clearing that up. Also, a long shot but you might know: after talking to some folk about the fcb1010 upgrade, I’ve been told that units manufactured recently will have the most up to date EPROM (version 1.7 i think) and would not require the upgrade. Does the fcb1010 require a specially modded EPROM to function properly with the 2880 or would it just need the most up to date EPROM from Behringer themselves?

Thanks

Fantastic, thank you!