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RockDebris....It's a lot to ask, but please....can you post how you have this ALL mapped out?
RockDebris....It's a lot to ask, but please....can you post how you have this ALL mapped out?
I've done a video for my system now. The last piece of the puzzle for me was adding software to my iPod to control my set list and to send any necessary MIDI commands out to the MFC. I've used it at a couple shows already and it worked great. This was a great challenge to get laid out and all working, but during the shows it is so simple.
wow a ton of information in this thread from you. awesome!
i proof-of-concept'd a similar setup using my iPad and Songbook+. Songbook has my lyrics and also a mp3 backing track in a sortable list of songs etc. build your setlist for whatever gig and lyrics and tracks are there. then i ran the camera connect kit for usb to a presonus audiobox 1818 for the midi and audio playback, then midi to Axe, then Axe thru to a tc voicelive rack - of course an mfc via ethernet to the axe.
this all worked well and i could select a song on the ipad and it would set my axe preset (and tc preset) or i could choose a preset on the axe with the MFC and it'd call up the correct song lyrics. amazing what can be done these days!
i didn't see it in the video, but may i ask how you have your ipod connected to the next midi device? is that an iRig midi on the floor? that's been the missing piece for me, a good midi interface for the iOS device. just curious how you're doing it. thanks.
I do! For the patches I've created thus far, anyway. I'm only on about week 4 of owning this thing, I'm still figuring a lot out but it made it through its first gig with me and a few practices and so far I've managed to piss off the guitar player in my original band (he LOVES the way it sounds and is a little soured on his Dual-Rec w/Mesa 4x12) and everyone's been really skeptical that I'm really just playing through a rack into a QSC K12.I'm not sure why we haven't seen those pedals before, either. They look pretty nice. Have you got them all assigned yet?
I appreciate the advice but I'm way ahead of you (having studied EXTENSIVELY on the forums here prior to my purchase).Cagey said:Also, I'd strongly suggest you switch that CAT5 cable/connection to some Neutrik gear such as this feedthrough and use this cable (of appropriate length) to run back and forth to the Axe. They'll take a helluva lot more abuse. Standard CAT 5 cables are simply too fragile for this duty. You'll destroy it in no time flat, and they're not as widely available as most musical equipment cables. That's why Fractal switched to that connector as standard on the Mark II version of the MFC, then to the BNC version on the Mark III.
Standard CAT 5 cables are simply too fragile for this duty. You'll destroy it in no time flat, and they're not as widely available as most musical equipment cables.
Edit: Wait, why would I need the feedthrough? I do NOT have one of those on order. I had planned on going straight from the Axe-FX into the MFC, is there something I'm missing by not using a feedthrough? Less strain on the MFC port or something else?
Solid, makes a ton of sense and I just ordered a couple.Pretty much. You can attach that thing to your pedalboard and that way, if the cable does manage to get pulled out, and the output port gets damaged, you only have to replace the feedthrough rather than having to get your MFC repaired.
Edit: Wait, why would I need the feedthrough? I do NOT have one of those on order. I had planned on going straight from the Axe-FX into the MFC, is there something I'm missing by not using a feedthrough? Less strain on the MFC port or something else?
While you're correct about durability, I'd say they're actually more widely available. You can find CAT5 at pretty much any Hardware or electronics store.
Kind of what I figured, which was why I asked about the durability angle.If you've got the Mark III, you don't need the feed-through. It already has both a Neutrik and a BNC connector. I have the Mark I, so in order to use the Neutrik connector/cable I had to convert from the standard CAT5 to their industrial version.
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NYC Cases 37"x15" Custom pedalboard
EP1-MT, EXT4MFC, MFC-101 MkIII, SP-1-BK, EP1-RD-SPL
Monoprice Premier Series TRS cables (3) 8" & (3) 1.5'
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NYC Cases 37"x15" Custom pedalboard
EP1-MT, EXT4MFC, MFC-101 MkIII, SP-1-BK, EP1-RD-SPL
Monoprice Premier Series TRS cables (3) 8" & (3) 1.5'