FCB1010 & Ableton Live - Equipment Setup 

THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU HAVE HELPED ME MAKE A DECISION. SORRY FOR YELLING I'M JUST SO EXCITED

GLORY OF GOD! This is about the 10th video I've watched on this and I can finally turn a simple stomp box on and off in FL Studio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For the record, these instruction work in there too. The key was making sure the thing you want to turn on and off is set to "off". THANK YOU! This is so clear - I actually understand this thing now to do what I want it to do and what I got it for! I can't tell you how happy I am that I don't have to send this back as it seems quite powerful and just what I needed. Got it for about $80 too. Okay, I'm rambling - but thanks.

I wonder how many people you've helped in the four years since you published this video. You helped me today. Thank you.

I really have to thank you, this is really the only video I found that really explained me why I could not make it work the way I expected! Behringer should hire you to write their manuals

Made what looked like a complicated process relatively simple. This was really very good, I was very quickly able to do what I needed with Guitar Rig using your methods. Thanks

THANK YOU! You made it simple and clear for exactly what i wanted to do! Couldnt find any videos quite like this. You're the man

Wow. This is excellent dude. You really broke it down and helped me decide whether this was the product for me. Nice job dude.

Wow, I'm glad I found this video. You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman!

You sir, are the man. Scour the whole internet and this is this most helpful video. Thank you.

Excellent video! Thank you. Well explained. I needed to do this for a Uni assessment. I've watched a couple of other videos but this explained the process really well. Thanks heaps again.

You are a LIFE SAVER!! Thank You!! Took a lot of videos to get to you but well worth the wait. NOW I UNDERSTAND!!

This setup was exactly what I needed to get the FCB working with Guitar Rig 5, THANK YOU!!!!!

oh my god thank you. Spent so long watching other videos and this got it where I needed it immediately.

Awesome, This was the only tutorial that worked for me. Thanks for taking the time to explain things so clearly!!

Thank you so much, I could not figure out my FCB1010 and this is the only video I found that actually explained it and worked for Ableton! 😁

Thank you very much !!! you're the only one person who explains the hidden power of this pedal board :) You success where Behringer fail to be clear in the possibility of this gear.

Your video just taught me how to get it working with Amplitube 5. I needed to set it so that buttons 1 thru 5 selects the presets, and buttons 6 thru 10 turns the stomp pedals on and off. It works perfectly now. Thanks a million.

Man this is the best video to set this up ever, thank you SO MUCH!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much!!!!! I've been struggling with this for days. More and more suspecting that it was the programming of the FCB1010 that was messy rather than Ableton and other programs. Again, you are a true hero!

thank you for aiding my illiteracy!! this made the process achievable, thank you!!

Thank you so so much for this video. You brought me closer to understanding this thing after a very frustrating couple of days since I am a total MIDI noob.

This is a brilliant, awesome tutorial. Thanks so much!

This is what I was searching for, thanks for the great videos!!!

Thanks for sharing this, it helped me to decide to buy one. I look forward to using it when it arrives. You made this process look simple, thanks again...Ray

Thank you- thank you-- im a noob (54yrs)this worked for me- i appreciate it-

thank you...what you did I can't explain in words. I am happy now.

Thank you so much for this. Had read some guides but I couldn't make sense of it. This really made me understand.

Thank you so much Phil, this helped me get to work straight away. Worked like a charm :)

Thank you so much for this. Literally nothing helped until I found your video.

followed from start to finish. Works exactly as needed. They should include a link to this video in the manual ffs. Great work man.

Really useful and clear tutorial. Thank you :)

Many thanks! This is SO helpful!

Saved me so much time!! Thank youuuu

SO HELPFUL THANK YOU! Educational too

Great videos Phil! thank you!

Thank you! You‘re the man

Thanks for this superb video. I used to use the sysex editor (two different ones) for the FCB1010 that people made... one day, they stopped sending my changes directly to the pedal. And I have no idea why. So, the only solution was learning how to program the messages directly on the pedal itself... and while it's time-consuming, it WORKS. Your video basically explains how to set a pedal to Toggle mode, which is really helpful. The one thing I hate though, is the LED light on each pedal doesn't reflect the Toggle state. It stays on. Behringer thing, I guess. That said... I know how to do Note Mode, and CC mode (Trigger, not Toggle or Momentary). This was the missing piece I needed. If you feel so inclined, maybe you could do a few other videos showing how to program Notes (Momentary), or CCs (Trigger, not Toggle)... this video was definitely well-explained and useful. Thanks so much!

This and the looper vid are a brilliant! Thanks 🙏. I actually found that it didn’t quite work with the CC 127,0 values. It was alright when you pressed the footswitch on and off - the effect toggled on and off as expected. The problem I found is when using more than 1 effect and toggling one on then the other, then switching the first one off. It would take 2 pedal presses to get the 2nd effect off. I don’t know if this is a firmware bug or some such. I actually found it better to use a single note value per effect. So for 3 effects you’d have notes 0,1,3. Resending the note value would toggle the effect to on or off and no worries if another effect had been engaged. That said, this video and the your looper vid were pretty much essential for me to set my FCB up and learn how to set it up. Thanks!

This video helped so much thank you ! now I'm just trying to figure out the expression pedals

Great tutorials, thanks!

Thank you so much, super helpful.

Appreciate the video, it was helpful!

"Did you ever know... that you're my hero...?"

Thx a lot for this video 🙏 Now i'm capable to managed my FCB1010 with Reaper and Bias FX 2 !

Great video!

Thanks for the video. Useful to see your worked examples as the user manual from Behringer is sorely misses this, no wonder there are so many how to videos of the FCB1010 as the user manual is poorly written.

Thanks for the help. By the way with Ableton Live 10 it's now working with CC 1 for me.

Great tutorial ! thanks a lot!

Thanks i really had a bad time trying to use my fcb 1010 in windows to controlmy guitar efects, istill working on it

great video, nice to have the functions actually explained while you go through them as opposed to blindly going through a sequence of button programming! I still seem to be having issues with my setup though. I'm trying to get my fcb1010 to play clips in ableton which it is managing to do but it is sending a repeated signal through ie it seems to be repeatedly pressing play on the clip, then there is no way of stopping it other than to delete the midi assignment. have you had any experience of this issue/know how to solve it? Thanks

Thanks very much, you allowed us to get to work immediately rather than hanging ourselves with guitar cables trying to figure this thing out! Question: Can you use the FCB 1010 to advance to the next scene in Ableton? We don't want to advance to a specific scene, we want to advance to the next scene, hopefully with only one footpress. Any ideas?

Amazing! Cheers

Thanks! Very awesome!

Thankyou sooo much for this good tutorial, that worked for me ...YHE ;)

Good video and thanks for sharing knowledge, you used midi to usb cables ? And how is the lag when use a eletric guitar?

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Can you please do one for the FCB1010 and mainstage 3? Thanks

Curious what version of ableton you are using? I'm on ableton 9 and it will recognise cc outside of the range 22-31 and 84-90 that you suggested. I'm wondering where this range came from? I just tested 03 and it worked fine. Should I use 22-31 to be safe? Thanks heaps for the video! it really helped me get a much better understanding. 2 tips I picked up from other vids and forums for anyone wandering. - The step where you changed the midi channel to 02 at the start only changed the midi channel for pedal 1. You need to repeat this for all other pedals if you want them all to be on channel 02. - If you want the expression pedals to work you need to do 2 things. A) in the config at the beginning you need to turn the lights off on the 8 and 9 pedals by pressing them in while config is lit up. B) when programming each of the pedals, (with 8 and 9 lit up as seen in the video) you need to press 8, assign it a cc (i chose 84) and give it a value 1 of 0 and a value 2 of 127. Do the same thing for 9 but give it a cc of 85. Repeat this step while programming each pedal so that for all pedals, expression pedal A is cc84 and expression pedal B is cc85 Thanks again for the video. I knew none of this before I watched

Thanks a lot! really useful :D

Amazing help, thank you. I’m having this issue however: the fcb buttons seem to turn off a midi mapped parameter fine, but when turning a parameter on I have to press the midi mapped fcb button twice if a different fcb button is already “selected” (red light above the button). What’s up???

Vert useful tutorial. Do you know if you can change the mode of the buttons on the FCB1010, from on/off switch to momentary?

Hi Phil, thank you for the video, it is a great setup and it helped me a lot, however, i found a flaw: using your setup, whenever i turn on a device, let's say a reverb, using one of the fcb1010 buttons, and then i want to turn on another device, let's say a delay (without turning the previous device off, the reverb), to turn this new device i need to press its button twice. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi friend, can you share your sysex, i'm having some problems when configuring the pedalboard which don't allow me to turn on and off audio effects. inb4, thanks for the video.

Great video. I followed this and was able to program the buttons to toggle effects on and off in STL Amphub in ableton 11. I had a problem when I turned the fcb1010 off -it didn't hold the settings. I thought I must have done something wrong wrong so reprogrammed it and had the same issue. Has anyone else had this type of problem? Is there a battery somewhere on a board that needs replacing? 🤔

how to connect fcb1010 to ableton? do you use midi to usb or midi plug to soundcard... sorry for my english... i need enlightment for this... thank you...

That was terrific sir. Are you still going to do a logic / main stage one?

hey man thanks for your tutorial. I was wondering if you can give me an info on how to program the expression pedal. I was following the other tutorials which does not work for me and I sort of meshed your and theirs but its not working normally. Whats happening on mine is when ever I press other buttons the expression pedal A returns its range value to 128-127.

Great video my man ! Any chance you can do a video like this for AmpliTube 4 to help us guitar players?

Hey Phil, very strange.. when I program my FCB 1010 like this, I'm not able to turn the effects on (or off). It does work as an ON command if I only program 1 ctrl (so knob 6 only, not 6&7), with the value 127 on the right CC. So the connections are okay.. What could be wrong? I have a very old FCB without the UNO Chip from 2001 or so..... Could that be it? Great video though, helped me already...

I've used a few midi pedals so far and I'm realizing that I need more switches for midi mapping in Ableton. Can All switches be mapped?

Can i assign expression pedal to 32 and 33 since you mentioned it accept from 22-31?

Hey Phil, thanks for the video. I'm using the latest Ableton Live Suite 10. Do your comments about Ableton only accepting Control Change numbers 22-31 & 84-90 still apply?

Thank you very much

does something have to be set up in the preferences? mine still isn't working

Been running into an issue where it says I am conflicting with the previous mapping. I was able to set buttons 1 & 2 to trigger audio clips 1 & 2..But when I try setting it up for clip 3, it gives me that error and the option to overwrite.

how can you set the pedals to be a Wah rather the on / off

Great video - I bought an fcb after watching this as it seemed doable. I programed everything as per the video but couldn’t get Ableton to work with it. Not sure what else to do!?

update: yes, it switches the effect ON. But not off.... any ideas?

I would like to know if you can launch drum loops from the behringer pedal, so you can release the intro, chorus and ending. Sorry if the query is badly redacted, I'm doing it with a translator from the Spanish language. Thank you very much!!!

Is there a way in Ableton that can make the expression pedal for the FCB1010 to not just go from On and Off on a Volume nob. I want to be able to have a master go to a send A Reverb and then control it to slowly get the Reverb away. But i just manage it to go from On or of :( Is it possible? :) :)

you are the best.

So If you turn on the delay then turn on the compressor then go back to the delay, you do not have to hit the delay switch twice to turn it off? I was trying to apply this technique to the Avid Eleven and it doesn't work like this. I need to load Abelton and try it. Maybe the difference is in how the power button works in Abelton?

Hi I have a strange problem, when I'm in che midi function menu for the setting the numbers are all wrong: if I press 1 on the screen appears the 2, if I press 5 on the screen appears the 2, if I press 6 on the screen appears the 1, if I press 7 on the screen appears the 0, if I press 9 on the screen appears the 1. I don't know if it's for this but I can't get it working with ableton... I tried to reset the fcb1010 a lot of times and nothing change, I tried to press the 6 for have on the screen the number 1 but nothing, I tried to press the 1 but nothing... I'm desperate!!!

Hi I really appreciate the video. I am having trouble getting from the programming of the fcb1010 to having it be read by Ableton. When I am in the midi screen I am not getting input values or any response from the daw. Am I missing some step here?

Hello Thanks for the video. I have a question. do we need an upgrade before all of this. The FCB1010 ı have, hasnt got an upgrade. thats why I guess it cant communicate with the computer.

hi,would you know why there a dot flashing to the left of the channel numbers it wont go away

Hey is there anyway to set this up for Maschine?

Would it be possible for me to press pedal 5 one time to launch a clip (say a drum loop) and then press it a second time to pause the loop? Play and pause are different buttons in ableton so basically want the “on” button press to activate the loop and the “off” to deactivate the loop

Great video. I'd love to see how you implement the expression pedals and control pedals (8 and 9)... I only wish that the pedal LED turned on and off with your plugins, so you could see what effects are on at any one time.

I'll look on your channel if there is a tutorial on how to configure the pedals. Thank so much.

Thank youuuu :-) Very much

Hi There, How can I use my newly bought FCB1010 with Amplitube 4 in my windows 10 PC? The User Manual is so complicated. Is there any easy way out there? I saw some editor videos but not sure which one should I use? Any help is much appreciated

If am programming bank 00 pedals 1-10 with 22-31 what is the sequence for programing bank 02-10 pedals 1-10 since I've already used 22-31?

MAESTRO!!!

Thx a lot for this video. I already watched it a hundred times! One question: Is it possible to program a bank for looping with the numbers 00 to 09? I tried it out and the first switch resembling number 00 doesnt work. Greetings

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Hi, are there firmware iterations this will not work with? I just found my FCB1010 in the loft after not being used for about 15 years. It outputs MIDI, as proved using MIDIOX, but I can;t get it to work the way your set up does. I suspect it could just be dusty contacts, but I'm also interested in updating the firmware if it would be beneficial.

Can you help me set up the pedal for foot bass note playing using Ableton live?

Bought ages ago when it first came out. Looked at the manual and couldn't understand a single word how it operated. Even if I did, having to remember what seems like a convoluted mess of arcane button pushes, was too offputting. Went right into the closet. These days I would like to see what uses it could have in Live and Logic so I'm glad to find this even if only use my feet for Play, Stop , Record, lol. I'm wondering how midi channel choice comes into play as you didn't explain. Can I use any midi number and it works? Would using midi #1 interfere with anything? Does the FCB show up as a controller choice in Live & Logic?

I did the programming as you explained however in Ableton the the mini commands are showing up as pitch bends in Ableton. Any idea what I did wrong?

Can i send this midi messages through the pedal-switch-kable? Or did i have to use the midi in and out? What Midi-Remote-Script i have to download. Can someone help me to bring that stuff working?