Mainstage - Foot control and keyboard together - MIDI thru?

I'm using an FCB1010 foot control to control MS patches comprising groups of playbacks.
I'd like to use an old Roland Stage Piano (RD1000)'s MIDI out to play a MS instrument.
Do I need to get a MIDI merge thingy or something?
Or could I MIDI out from the Roland into the FCB1010 and set that to MIDI thru to MS?
Or am I asking for trouble?
'scuse my ignorance of things MIDI

Yes it works fine - I had to enable MIDI MERGE on the FCB1010 then it works fine. I can see I'll have to change my note ons in the FCB to be different from the MIDI keyboard or I'll be sending stop/start etc controls MS while playing but, for now, it looks hopeful.

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Bruno Filipe wrote:
Thanks for the help but please don´t duplicate the answers. I´ve explain that to Chamie7
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and
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yeloop wrote:
Apologies if this is a silly question!
Cheers,
Mike
If you don't know the answer then it's not a silly question.
You're simply seeing a connection where none exists. The Region parameter box will display the parameters of any selected Region(s). When no region is selected the region parameter box displays the "MIDI Thru" parameters.
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