LINE 6 POD xt [27/82] Pedal control behaviors

FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: FBV Control Application

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Pedal Control Behaviors

The on-board pedal of your FBV MkII (as well as an optional, connected Expression pedal on an

FBV Shortboard MkII) supports transmitting a MIDI CC type message, and will “sweep” the range of

parameter from 0 to 100%. Obviously, the Pedal control is best used when assigned to a knob or slider

type parameter in your software, so that you can have “hands-free” operation over it. Setting a Pedal

function is pretty straightforward - simply choose MIDI CC as the MIDI Command and then select

the MIDI CC number that corresponds to the target software parameter. The “range” Values of 0 to

127 are automatically set for you, to allow adjustment from 0 to 100% of the mapped parameter. (Some

MIDI applications further allow you to set different minimum and/or maximum settings within the

software itself - see your software’s documentation.)

Note that your on-board Pedal actually has two conﬁgurable Control settings in the Control Properties

list - Pedal Wah and Pedal Vol. You can set each of these Controls independently, and then use the

Toe Switch to toggle between the two mapped parameters! Please see the Pedal Wah and Pedal Vol

descriptions on page 3•2 for details.

Opening and Saving FBV Presets

The Line 6 FBV Control application allows you to create, edit and save all the current settings within

the application GUI as a “patch”, or FBV preset ﬁle stored on your computer hard drive. This means

you can backup the complete settings currently loaded in your FBV Shortboard or Express MkII

hardware’s internal memory, or numerous customized versions of those settings, as individual FBV

presets and load any one of them into your FBV’s memory at any time. To follow are some details on

how to manage FBV presets.

As mentioned earlier, whenever your FBV MkII device is USB-connected to your computer, and the

Line 6 FBV Control application is launched with the device selected, the contents of the FBV device’s

internal memory is automatically loaded into the Control application’s GUI. Additionally, whenever

you edit any single setting in the Control application, the changes are automatically written to the

internal memory of the FBV MkII device’s internal memory.

TIP: Even though all the settings within the Line 6 FBV Control application GUI are automatically stored

on your connected FBV device, it is a good idea to always do a “Save” or “Save As” your current FBV

device’s settings as an FBV preset on your computer once you have completed editing the settings. This

ensures you always have a “backup” of all your customized settings that you can easily load again later!

If you want to be able to open an existing FBV preset ﬁle to review or edit its settings without

automatically loading the preset onto your FBV MkII device’s internal memory, disconnect your FBV

device from the USB port before launching the FBV Control application.

Open an Existing FBV Preset

• With your FBV Shortboard or Express MkII device connected to your computer’s USB port,

launch the Line 6 FBV Control application.

• Go to the File > Open menu within the application.

• By default, this should open to these directories:

• Documents/Line 6/FBV (Mac

)

• My Documents\Line 6\FBV (Windows

)