The FCB1010 is an extremely affordable and robust piece of hardware. Unfortunately the original firmware contains a few nasty bugs and also misses some essential functionality. After diving into the FCB1010 internals and solving the most annoying bugs back in 2006, we decided to listen to the most frequent feature requests of FCB1010 users, and add them to the firmware while we were at it. This was the birth of “UnO” : an UnOfficial firmware version, because it was not developed by the Behringer team. But after more than 10 years we can say that UnO more or less has become a standard add-on, turning the FCB1010 into a very powerful MIDI controller.
Key benefits of the UnO firmware :
Real stompbox mode! Stomp LEDs show the current effect states at all time
Possibility to turn any stompbox into a sustain pedal (‘momentary’ instead of ‘toggling’ behavior)
Flexible programming of stomp states for each preset
Smoother behavior of the built-in expression pedals
Much easier to do patchdumps from PC
Corrected MIDI merge functionality, to get rid of hanging notes from MIDI keyboards
Corrected startup memory check, to get rid of the “flashing 88” problem when using the MIDI IN port
Possibility to disable the “Behringer taptempo” system, to get rid of unwanted extra CC messages
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More info :
Talk to the large UnO user base and browse through the helpful resources in the UnO Group at Groups.io :