Mapping specific MIDI events to buttson

While I'm not ready to depend on MainStage for live use due to the patch change/delayed note bug, I'm still experimenting with it in the hope that the bugs WILL get fixed.
I have a Roland FC-300 foot controller and I wanted to try and map a couple of switches to Next Patch and Prev Patch, without having to program the FC-300 itself.
In the default (factory settings) mode, the first two foot switches send Program Change (PC) 1 and 2 respectively. So the actual messages being sent out (assuming midi channel 1) are C0 01 and C0 02 respectively.
Unfortunately, the LEARN mechanism seems to just detect the C0 part and considers the value (01 or 02) to be a changeable parameter. While that's often what you want, it's NOT useful in this particular situation.
So the question is, how can I get MainStage to treat the entire MIDI event as a single atomic command so that I can make two buttons to go up and down?
Thanks,
David Jameson

Actually, dhjdhj, it's a lot easier than you think:
There is a button on the FC 300 called "Mode". (I'm assuming it works just like the one on the FC 200). This will put the FC 300 into one of the modes where the foot switches send midi CC messages, NOT program changes. Just press this button and watch midi input to see when the foot switches send midi CC's. All you need to do is press this button and get in the right mode, no programming necessary.
Once you do that, simply learn/assign all the footswitches you want - make sure to do this for the next and previous patch buttons in your mainstage layout.
I've done this and it works great.
One thing that will surprise you is that the FC footswitches will NOT be in sync with Mainstage. There's no way around this. 1) Mainstage has no midi out (I haven't tried to plugins others have mentioned). 2) NO guitar board I know of takes MIDI in and allows you to only set status lights with it. I think there are some, but none that are big sellers. Even if Mainstage had MIDI out, it wouldn't work anyway until manufacturers support this feature. So your on/off lights on the FC 300 will potentially be out of sync with Mainstage when you change patches. Annoying, but it still works.

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I'm trying to do a similar thing - I'm no expert but here's a few ideas:
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Hi,
I've been doing some careful measurements of the timing of MIDI events under Logic 8.0.2. I record a lot of external MIDI hardware, so the timing of external MIDI events and its relation to recorded audio is very important to me.
My setup is OS X 10.5.5, Logic 8.0.2., all relevant patches and updates. I'm using an RME fireface 800 as both the audio and MIDI interface in these examples.
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OK, so I just retested and here is the best part... I recorded a loop from my drum machine, cut the first note nicely to the 1 on the first bar... using a count in etc.
I played it back and looped outs 3-4 back into 1-2 on my Ensemble. I also played back the same kick on my drum machine just to check this reverse latency issue. I was not concerned with hit for hit layering accuracy. What I got back astounds me!
The "loopback" recording was spot on to the original being played out... totally locked. BUT, the one that was midi clocked by Logic and play from my drum machine came in ahead of the 1??? How is this possible when I am hearing it when monitoring this recording and it is slightly behind? RIDICULOUS! What does this mean?
Logic is NOT recording what I am hearing, but rather recording some timewarped version of it in which it places events ahead of when they happened, but ONLY on midi clocked or midi sent notes!
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I have done a ton of tests like this, I also followed the loopback testing as described on Logicprohelp.com.
Yes I tried it with all PDC modes, SW monitoring on AND off.
I am truly beginning to think that this is a major bug of some sort.
Anyone else out there with hardware that reports latency to Logic (RME, Metric Halo, and Apogee stuff are ones I know that do this) experiencing this abberation?
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I've searched a bit, but haven't found much. I apologize if this has been covered. (Obligatory disclaimer complete!)
Starting earlier this week, I noticed a noise would accompany any MIDI notes I'd play on my keyboard through Logic. Frustrating. I'm having some difficulty describing the noise, but I'll try. First, it has a distinct tone, which is the same tone as the note being keyed. Beyond that it's faint, full of static and has a bit of a phasing effect.
My troubleshooting so far: (restarting, shutting off and on, unplugging and plugging included!)
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I'm currently reinstalling Logic, but I can't imagine that's going to change much considering the issue is cross application. (I will test older projects sequenced in the Before Time to see if those events phase as well as soon as Logic is done reinstalling.) I'm sure it's a simple solution that I am not familiar with. No doubt I'll kick myself when someone figures it out!
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tbirdparis wrote:
It sounds like you might just be hearing electronic interference noise due to the fact that you're using the internal sound of the Mac. In the old days (up to around the time of the G5s), the built in sound on Macs was fairly decent quality, at least in terms of the way it was isolated to reject interference from the electronics running inside the box. More recent models don't seem to be quite as good in this regard,
This is what I thought when first reading this post last night. I have an old Fender guitar amp from the 50's that has the same sound. The same note, played low in the background with a quieter layer of distortion. (static).
It will show up most on tones that are closer to a pure sine wave, like some of the Rhodes/El.Piano sounds. You might not notice it on more complex tones. Also will show up more playing quietly.
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