MIDI controller devices

Comments

• valouz

  January 2009 edited 10:36PM

  Hello phil999
  
  
  
  Be careful, this product does not have very good reputation. All the bad comments come from the lack of precision of the expression pedal and the weakness of the switch.
  
  
  
  With behringer it either very good for the price or just correct for the price. So as their product are very cheap it can go from good to really bad.
  
  
  
  I own a B2 Pro microphone from them it's really very good for the price and even good compare to some double even triple price mic from other brand.
  
  
  
  But this is one of the rare exception with this brand.
  
  
  
  Sorry to break your dream ...
• pablomariana

  January 2009 edited 10:36PM

  hi
  
  ,i have a fcb1010, i buyed 2 years ago,and for me is very good, i use it whit wx5 ,vl70m,and now the trumpet and mr sax.
• valouz

  January 2009 edited 10:36PM

  Happy to read this because i would be also interested one day with this kind of controller.
  
  
  
  May be that the people having pb were not lucky...
  
  This also occurs with branded products deemed to be of higher quality
• Phil999

  January 2009 edited 10:36PM

  thank you valouz for your warning, and thank you pablomariana for your description. You seem to do what I am planning to do. Very well.
  
  
  
  Yes, Behringer is definitely not the first choice for reliable hardware. I will read some more reviews on the FCB1010 and decide later. Talking about controllers, I have a Behringer BCF2000 since more than a year, and it has become an important part of my studio. There is no programming necessary, its Mackie-emulation can be recognized by many DAW's. And there's also a 15 year old quad noise-gate from Behringer, that is still in my rack in everyday use.
  
  Maybe I try my luck like pablomariana. And if anything goes wrong, there are very cheap MIDI converters that one can build into broken devices.
• Phil999

  March 2009 edited 10:36PM

  no problems with the FCB1010. Very good pedals.
  
  
  
  With one exception: I had to disassemble the 230 V transformer from the device, it hummed loud. Outside the device it can vibrate as much as it wants, there's no resonance anymore in the FCB1010 housing.
  
  Of course I can still recommend the device, probably I just had bad luck with the transformer. Cheap devices have less QC, that's why they are cheap. :P