FYI for midi footswitch DIY enthusiasts

[solo-act]

The latest from Xavier at Gordius below. In short, he's creating a mini-brain logic/control unit that will adapt to any footswitch layout (16 switch max) that you throw at it.

Actually this is one of the aspects which we intend to take one step further with our next line of products. The small TinyBox will be the brain containing all logic - similar to the LGM2 but at half the price. Then we will probably provide a dirt cheap electronics board which allows you to create your own floorboard and freely choose the layout, number of switches and expression pedals (for the moment up to 16 switches and up to 2 pedals). TinyBox programming will be flexible enough to support any kind of layout. You could easily build a few different floorboards and use the one you prefer depending on the type of gig. Or you can have one floorboard which you rebuild when your requirements change. TinyBox remains the brain containing all logic.
I'm about to build my own floorboard prototype which will be really roadworthy, starting from a 49 Euro flightcase which has the perfect size for this purpose :
Of course you can create something with a much smaller footprint, or add one row of switches at the front of your guitar pedalboard, or whatever you like...
https://www.ltt-versand.de/images/product_images/popup_images/200804740a.jpg




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[unix-guy]

The latest from Xavier at Gordius below. In short, he's creating a mini-brain logic/control unit that will adapt to any footswitch layout (16 switch max) that you throw at it.

Actually this is one of the aspects which we intend to take one step further with our next line of products. The small TinyBox will be the brain containing all logic - similar to the LGM2 but at half the price. Then we will probably provide a dirt cheap electronics board which allows you to create your own floorboard and freely choose the layout, number of switches and expression pedals (for the moment up to 16 switches and up to 2 pedals). TinyBox programming will be flexible enough to support any kind of layout. You could easily build a few different floorboards and use the one you prefer depending on the type of gig. Or you can have one floorboard which you rebuild when your requirements change. TinyBox remains the brain containing all logic.
I'm about to build my own floorboard prototype which will be really roadworthy, starting from a 49 Euro flightcase which has the perfect size for this purpose :
Of course you can create something with a much smaller footprint, or add one row of switches at the front of your guitar pedalboard, or whatever you like...
https://www.ltt-versand.de/images/product_images/popup_images/200804740a.jpg




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View on www.ltt-versand.de

Interesting... The Gordius stuff is well done, and the Little Giant stuff started off as an external brain for the FCB1010.

Looking forward to see what Xavier comes up with.

 

[MisterE]

I was trying to do something similar using the LGM unit and the buttons from that unit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jo3u7bee75l366l/Ax8 Pedalboard.JPG?dl=0

 

[solo-act]

Limitation Xavier discussed in email (memory might not be accurate here) is basically since it relies on midi and you can't wire switches directly to the brain, you lose the cool gordius innovations like conditional logic, additional activations like long-press, re-mapping of switches, control of switch LEDs.

Still, for devices like AX8 and others that are very limited in their midi capability, you can send a single primitive command (PC, CC) out of the unit to the to the Gordius brain which should be able turn that into a stream of whatever midi you want to whatever device you want. I hope it has the same USB & midi interface as the little giant module.

For me, this means I might be able to run backing tracks, mixing board and lights as I run an AX8, but there's no way I could run my looper of doom (below). It just occurred to me, I don't even know if the AX8 has a looper.

That said, losing the looper of doom in favor of a fly rig (AX8 & an electric with ghost system and killer acoustic tone match) that has all the midi capability I need might be worth looking into. On musician wages though that will remain a dream for near future.