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3 SETTING UP
MIDI CONNECTIONS
You may have noticed that the FC is not a MIDI controller. It does not have MIDI ports. Combined with the Axe-Fx III,
however, it becomes part of a MIDI control system. Even without an FC, the Axe-Fx can serve as the centerpiece of
a MIDI rig, transmitting various messages from its MIDI OUT port. The FC controls the Axe-Fx and the Axe-Fx sends
MIDI messages. Don’t be mistaken and expect MIDI messages at the MIDI THRU port of the III; all MIDI messages
are generated by the Axe-Fx III at its MIDI OUT port.
Here’s a simple rig diagram showing how the FC and Axe-Fx III might be used to send MIDI to a connected amp,
which also passes messages on to a processor.
WHY NO MIDI PORTS ON THE FC? Early during the design of the new
foot controllers for our new flagship processor, we decided that the FC should be “lean
and mean.” Instead of crouching on the floor to delve through menus, FC owners would set up and operate the
unit using the color screen and interface of the mothership. Similarly, all of the “heavy lifting” would be done
by the Axe-Fx III, keeping the FC’s price down and extending the “client-server” concept of total integration. The
benets of this are great. Have you noticed, for instance, that as things change on your Axe-Fx III or in Axe-Edit,
the FC is updated automatically? With our new highly efcient FASLINK II protocol, the decision was complete.
MIDI had no place on the floor, and the Axe-Fx III would become the MIDI master!
XLR Cable
FC-12 or FC-6
Audio and power connections not shown.
Connect all other INs and OUTs as you
normally would in your rig (Audio, USB, etc.)
FASLINK II
FASLINK II Port
MIDI OUT MIDI IN MIDI THRU
MIDI IN
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