Welcome to fc.factory

Introduction

fc.factory is a cross platform Librarian for the Roland FC300 MIDI Foot Controller, that allows you to organise your FC300 data from the comfort of your computer.

fs.factory has been written by me, Derek Cook, and is available exclusively as a free download from www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk. The free version is fully functional apart from the save and export features (including MIDI export) are disabled. This allows you to evaluate the features of fc.factory to see if you like it before buying it. If you wish to use fs.factory and enable the save and export functions you will need to register fs.factory and pay a shareware registration fee.

fc.factory was written as I have never been able to find a librarian/editor for the FC300.

This version currently only supports the FC300 PATCH mode, as that is the only mode I use. I will consider supporting other modes if there is enough demand. Also this version focuses upon Drag and Drop, Cut/Copy/Paste editing and getting the data into the right structure to allow you to do that. Currently there is no detailed editing via a nice GUI to replicate what you can do on the FC300 front panel. I will be looking at that in a later release.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I need to investigate this further, but it seems that whilst the FC300 allows you to define up to six multiple controllers for EXP1 and EXP2, it only transmits the first one. This potentially is an issue that will cause data loss from your patches if you have programmed more than one controller. Note this is an FC300 issue and not an fc.factory issue.

I am greatly interested in user feedback for shaping future versions of fc.factory. Comments and bug reports on the current features of fc.factory and requests for future features can be sent to support@xfactory-librarians.co.uk.

fc.factory is programmed in Java, however, you as a user do not need to worry about that as the Java components required by fc.factory are embedded in the application.

The application has been developed and tested for Java 17 on Mac OS X, and it is also tested on Windows 10 and Linux Mint

The screen shots you see in this manual have been taken with fc.factory running upon OS X. The look and feel of the application will vary depending upon your target JRE and computer platform, so don't worry if fc.factory looks slightly different upon your system.