fcbnerd - Turn a MIDI pedalboard into a Mac macro controller
Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS
fcbnerd lets you use a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard as an extra keyboard for your Mac. It listens to any CoreMIDI source and either runs shell commands when a footswitch or expression pedal sends a bound message, or streams JSON events for other programs to handle. Bindings like '1:20:127=open ~/Downloads' make it easy to trigger actions without needing special permissions. Built for the FCB1010 but works with any MIDI controller, it's a lightweight CLI tool that integrates with Hammerspoon, Keyboard Maestro, or your own scripts.
Use a MIDI foot controller as an extra keyboard for your Mac.
- rahulmax
Love this! In the photography community, we had MIDI2LR (MIDI to Lightroom) (https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/)
I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.
- _kb
This is like vim pedal (https://github.com/foxweb/vim-pedal) on steroids. I love it.
- ashtuchkin
Love it! Trying to use it with my nanoPAD2 and it only outputs `note_on` and `note_off` events. Can we bind on these? Example output:
22:56:38.740 note_on channel=1 note=36 velocity=89 [nanoPAD2 PAD]