LINE 6 POD xt [71/82] Digidesign pro tools le transport control fbv mkii setup tutorial

FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: Controlling 3rd Party Software

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LE Transport Control - FBV MkII Setup Tutorial

We’ve provided a step-by-step tutorial here for how to conﬁgure an FBV Shortboard or Express MkII

device to remotely control the Transport of the Digidesign Pro Tools LE

8 software. (The steps are

similar for other Pro Tools versions as well.) Conﬁguring a MIDI Controller device such as FBV MkII

for this task in Pro Tools is not too obvious, but pretty simple once you know the steps, and it can be

very helpful to have foot control over your Transport functions for recording and punch-ins!

Note: For the following steps, we’re running a Mac®, but the steps are the same if you are using Windows®

XP or Vista®, unless otherwise noted.

FBV Control Assignment Conﬁguration

The ﬁrst step, before even launching Pro Tools, is that we’ll need to conﬁgure a set of MIDI assignments

for the footswitches and pedals of our FBV device. Pro Tools utilizes MIDI Machine Control (MMC)

commands to access its Transport functions remotely. Therefore, we’re going to assign MMC commands

to our FBV footswitch controls using the Line 6 FBV Control application, and save this as an FBV

preset.

• Connect your FBV MkII device to your computer and launch Line 6 FBV Control.

• Go to File > Open and load the “Blank.fbv” preset.

• Go to File > Save As and let’s title this new preset “PT-Transport.fbv”.

For this example, we’ll conﬁgure several FBV Controls as follows (you can do the same on either an

FBV Shortboard or Express MkII device):

• Assign the A, B, C & D footswitch Controls’ MIDI Command settings all to “MMC”.

• Set the A Control’s Value setting to “Play”.

• Set the B Control’s Value setting to “Stop”

• Set the C Control’s Value setting to “Record Punch (Pro Tools)”

• Set the D Control’s Value setting to “Rewind”. Note that for Rewind, you have the option of

choosing a Switch Mode, each of which offers a different behavior:

• “Single” initiates rewind action on each footswitch press, and keeps rewinding.

• “Momentary” initiates rewind action on the footswitch press, but stops rewinding when you

release the footswitch.

• “Toggle” alternates between initiating rewind and stopping rewind on each successive

footswitch press.

• Optionally, you can assign the “Fast Forward” Value to one of your footswitches instead of one

of the above (or for an additional footswitch if you have a Shortboard. However, note that the

MMC “Pause” value simply performs the same action as “Stop” (since Pro Tools’ Transport has

no Pause button).

• Set the Port and Channel for all of the above Controls to “1”, since we want to transmit all our

MIDI commands to the FBV USB MIDI Out Port 1, Channel 1.

• For all other FBV Controls, we’ll keep them to Unassigned since we won’t be using them for this

example.