I was looping vocals at home and while it is great that I can hit record and then the recording starts on the right bar, then when closing the loop i have noticed that the click from the foot-switch is noisy enough to be picked up from the mic (even though the looper is on the floor, on thick carpet.) Especially if I have delay on my vocal, then the click is even more noticeable. Is there a way to make the switches silent somehow? Maybe by putting rubber around it or something?
It’s the Nektar Pacer. The footswitch is the type of switch used in the FS 6 and 7, but you need something that is midi programmable to trigger the Aeros.
You might want to consider how many footswitches you will need to control Aeros using the current midi implementation:
I don’t how I could get by with as few as 3 foot switches. I find 4 too few on the Aeros, itself. If I only had a midi controller with only one button, I guess it might be start/stop only. Not very useful, and certainly not a replacement for the Aeros buttons.
Well i feel totally fine with the 4 footswitches on the Aeros. I only want the rec switch to be less noisy. And i already utilise the midi in for clock sync… I guess then it is just not possible? The expression pedal input would not work for control pedals, and there is no plan for that?
Would be great if we are able to midi sync clock through USB.
Is it possible to use a midi footswitch that I send a clock to and then to send that thru to the Aeros? Then I can utilize the clock as well as the footswitches!
Some of the products from Disaster Area Designs would fit the bill, but they aren’t cheap. I use the SMARTClock Gen3, which is $179.99. It has one button (!) for a midi command if you like, along with tap midi clock send to all other devices.
I am using Machine MK3 (hardware & software) as a master clock device.
And I already have couple of loopers & effects synced up.
Is there a silent Footswitch with Midi in & Midi thru? (one footswitch would be enough, I need it only for the start rec/close rec function)
This device has midi through, but doesn’t offer SYSEX commands. I used SYSEX start/stop to control Aeros in the past, but I don’t know if it is required now.
Midi through works on that switch. I’m talking about the midi commands to start/stop Aeros recording.
When I used midi to control Aeros, I used SYSEX ‘stop’ to stop recording. Hopefully there is a CC command that does that so you don’t need to consider SYSEX.
Hopefully, someone with more experience using midi to control Aeros start/stop can chime in with the proper CC to stop recording…?
