Switching Soft Synths With A Foot Controller.. Possible?

[blazingstrings]

Hey all,

I don't usually get to much into setting up MIDI Stuff since I bought a Laptop and a few soft synths.

But I have an Issue that I want to see if I can resolve it.

I play with a band that has drums, bass, vocals and me on synths and loops.

I use Reason 4, Ableton Live 7 and Logic 8, When were playing I may be using Reason and have three different synths that I need to switch to and from during verse, chorus, bridge etc.

What I would like to do is be able to do that with a MIDI foot switch like a MIDI Mouse or a guitar type MIDI controller.

Anyone have any tips or tricks or just the answer on how I could do that with the given software? I'm lost on how it could be done.

Thanks for any help.

-Blaze

[mikemorgan]

Probably the simplest solution is to put each synth on a different midi receive channel and toggle through the 1,2,3 channels on your keyboard.

[blazingstrings]

Could that be controlled by a foot switch of some sort?

Thanks for your help.

-Blaze

[mikemorgan]

If your keyboard accepts bank/patch change messages you could control it by footswitch.

[blazingstrings]

I'll have to dig through the manual, I have a M-Audio Axiom 49 Into Reason 4.

Thanks I'll check back.