Hey Marzrock, I’ve used the Behringer FCB1010 to trigger the 2880. If you’re curious, here’s how mine’s set up.

There are two rows:
ABCDE
12345

A = Play
1 = Record
BCDE = Select Track 1,2,3,4
2345 = Mute/Unmute Tracks 1,2,3,4

Unfortunately, the Midi capability for the looper is somewhat basic. From what I read and understand, it uses MIDI in the way a guitar pedal would where a CC command simply changes presets. Out of the box, you cannot have it do complex commands like loop back to bar 4 or loop only bar 2-3. In fact, I don’t believe the looper even has the capability to recognize bar length/tempo/time sig.

That doesn’t mean you can’t do interesting things with it however. For live instances, I could see it hooked up to a MIDI sequencer, where based on the path of your project, you send it triggers to start/stop recording and the like.

As others have said though, for those more complex looping options, you’re better off using a computer based sequencer like Ableton.

Hope this helps!