Let's see those FM3 rigs!

vangrieg said:
I have only one but for some reason only laziness helps me resist the temptation of slapping some label on it. It just feels sad and unaccomplished without a label. 🤣
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I have 2. But, my laziness kept me only labeling one. They also sit off to the side of my board, so....it made sense.
 
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Had The MC8 sitting around at the time I purchased my FM3 and have really enjoyed getting deep with MIDI programming.

Have a few MIDI pedals (2 Chase Bliss and Red Panda Tensor) in the rack. Certain scenes will activate them via a loop switcher (Morningstar ML5) and change the Morningstar MC8 bank to a page of controls specific to that pedal. These are "fun / extra" effects and I regularly play gigs without the rack, but I can also still integrate my rack effects into my old analog pedalboard switching system as well. Also long term I can see myself upgrading to the Axe FX Rack unit so I'm sort of future-planning with the rack setup.

MC8 by default has delay on/off and channel select, Boost on/off (Filter block) Wah on/off and some preset navigation
The three button switch does Tuner and Tap while the middle button recalls a different bank in the MC8
The single tap switch is page toggle on the MC8 (I hate hitting two buttons for an action and will likely disable that all together on the MC8)
The moog expression is into the MC8 and sends different messages depending on the bank, by default it increases the mix and size of the reverb ever so slightly. Otherwise it's specific functions for the midi pedals and MC8 banks will typically have a button to cycle through different expression messages per-pedal.
The ampero switch is stand in for the Fractal and I use it for scene toggles.
The three buttons on the fractal are typically drive 1, drive 2 and Phaser (univibe) effect bypass and more scene navigation on hold. (I default to layout 6 Per-Preset and on certain presets will have different assignments of effects)
So between the 3 buttons on the FM3 and the Ampero switch I can access all my scenes and use the same press again to return to scene 1
 
After almost 5 months of trying dozens of cables adaptors and such, cutting, measuring and soldering (goodness, how I hate this lol :D), I finally completed my pedalboard.

Since I've been moving from place to place, including changing countries, for the last 3 years or, had to leave my guitar stuff in storage, I decided I should get myself a compact (so no permanent big heavy speakers for now) and versatile rig that could work in multiple situations - from playing at home in a super crammed space through headphones, to grabbing it for vacation trips and playing at hotel/airbnb rooms, to being able to connect to a random HiFi for playing backing tracks while sending guitar/vox to a low latency speaker at parties and such, to doing occasional rehearsals with people I find here and there.

And it had to work with just about anyting - laptop, Mac Mini, iPad, iPhone, and whatever else has USB, with zero reconfiguration, connected with one cable.

It had to function as an audio interface for everything for super compact use cases, or work with other sound cards or mixers.

I also needed a mic preamp with phantom power, for portable scenarios.

So here's my FM3 Nomad aka "Look Ma, Touchscreenz are here!" rig. The awesome Nux Bumblebee medium fits everything perfectly, and even gives some protection to cable jacks. It also fits in any carry-on luggage, and leaves space for clothes and such.

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A computer/ipad/phone is connected to a USB-C jack which then goes to a USB hub, then to the FM3 for audio, Roland UM-One for MIDI, a USB to 9V converter which powers the TC mic preamp after going through the Joyo power filter to remove hum/noise. Phones and tablets don't provide enough power, and need charging, so there's also a USB-C power delivery input, which can even provide enough juice to charge a laptop.

Most of the time the contraption sits under my work desk so I can play some guitar between day job calls :D There's an additional MIDI footswitch (which I sometimes use for trickier looper handling), and an expression pedal, in case I need to record pedal movements as MIDI. Mixing in this scenario is handled by the awesome SoundDesk app, which can host plugins and route audio between applications and even multiple audio interfaces (highly recommend, this is much better than the stock Aggregate Device thingie).

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But for more mobile scenarios, it can work with a tablet, a phone, both a tablet or a phone (so one screen would have a mixer or a backing track setlist, another one would show lyrics, or have FracPad open, or whatever). With the ridiculous poor man's FRFR speaker I discovered, or something more serious when available. Plus for quick adjustments and transport control there's also a control surface which I can plug in, and all the knobs, buttons and faders control the same stuff no matter which device I use (vocal chain, backing track, room reverb level, backing track level etc). Mixing and plugin hosting is handled by AUM. Everything fits in the padded gig bag that came with the Bumblebee.

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Pretty happy with how this worked out after all, given the circumstances.
 
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My little B rig. Although it may be moving to my A rig. I have a festival thing Saturday that I'm going to take it out for and see how it goes.
Special guest appearance by Opal, the cat who also decided to mark her territory with fur on the FM3.
 

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iaresee said:
What's the app on the iPad running the backing track/lyric/setlist stuff in the image you posted?
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It’s StageTraxx.

One thing I’m missing in it is sending midi from a midi track (you have to enter midi commands in the lyrics file), and it doesn’t send sysex.

All of this is supposed to come in version 4 supposedly this year.

But I chose it for simplicity and the fact that it works on iPads, phones, and Macs, with files and settings synced between all devices. It also has “sessions” which different devices can join, so you can run a backing track on a laptop connected to an audio interface/mixer, a vocalist will see lyrics scrolled in sync etc.
 
vangrieg said:
After almost 5 months of trying dozens of cables adaptors and such, cutting, measuring and soldering (goodness, how I hate this lol :D), I finally completed my pedalboard.

Since I've been moving from place to place, including changing countries, for the last 3 years or, had to leave my guitar stuff in storage, I decided I should get myself a compact (so no permanent big heavy speakers for now) and versatile rig that could work in multiple situations - from playing at home in a super crammed space through headphones, to grabbing it for vacation trips and playing at hotel/airbnb rooms, to being able to connect to a random HiFi for playing backing tracks while sending guitar/vox to a low latency speaker at parties and such, to doing occasional rehearsals with people I find here and there.

And it had to work with just about anyting - laptop, Mac Mini, iPad, iPhone, and whatever else has USB, with zero reconfiguration, connected with one cable.

It had to function as an audio interface for everything for super compact use cases, or work with other sound cards or mixers.

I also needed a mic preamp with phantom power, for portable scenarios.

So here's my FM3 Nomad aka "Look Ma, Touchscreenz are here!" rig. The awesome Nux Bumblebee medium fits everything perfectly, and even gives some protection to cable jacks. It also fits in any carry-on luggage, and leaves space for clothes and such.

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A computer/ipad/phone is connected to a USB-C jack which then goes to a USB hub, then to the FM3 for audio, Roland UM-One for MIDI, a USB to 9V converter which powers the TC mic preamp after going through the Joyo power filter to remove hum/noise. Phones and tablets don't provide enough power, and need charging, so there's also a USB-C power delivery input, which can even provide enough juice to charge a laptop.

Most of the time the contraption sits under my work desk so I can play some guitar between day job calls :D There's an additional MIDI footswitch (which I sometimes use for trickier looper handling), and an expression pedal, in case I need to record pedal movements as MIDI. Mixing in this scenario is handled by the awesome SoundDesk app, which can host plugins and route audio between applications and even multiple audio interfaces (highly recommend, this is much better than the stock Aggregate Device thingie).

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But for more mobile scenarios, it can work with a tablet, a phone, both a tablet or a phone (so one screen would have a mixer or a backing track setlist, another one would show lyrics, or have FracPad open, or whatever). With the ridiculous poor man's FRFR speaker I discovered, or something more serious when available. Plus for quick adjustments and transport control there's also a control surface which I can plug in, and all the knobs, buttons and faders control the same stuff no matter which device I use (vocal chain, backing track, room reverb level, backing track level etc). Mixing and plugin hosting is handled by AUM. Everything fits in the padded gig bag that came with the Bumblebee.

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Pretty happy with how this worked out after all, given the circumstances.
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Shadow On The Sun is a banger
 
unix-guy said:
Is that purple Mission an expression pedal?

I thought I had the only 2 purple ones in existence!

I bought them from a former long time forum member who had them done custom. An EP-1 standard and another spring loaded.
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Yes. It's an SP1.
Years ago (pre-aero line), they would offer one-offs and blems in their scratch/dent sections. Up until 2016, they used to even offer customizable pedals. But mostly these came from an air bubble in the finish, or something similar. Since they all used the same pedal housing, they would take what would have been a VM Pro volume pedal, would just be a custom EP-1. I just called them one day, and told them I needed an SP-1. They said they could build me one. I asked if they could use the the Re-Wah housing, and they charged me an extra $10 and they did it.
 
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