Harley Benton MP-100 MIDI Foot Controller 3-stars Reviews

Its good piece of gear when it works!

I needed a midi footswitch for some presets I had been working on and this did the job for the first 2 weeks, but now I have to re connect the device roughly 3 or 4 times to get it to even register with my daw or any plugins.

The overall build quality feels sturdy because of its metal casing and the switches work fine. Its just the actual consistency of the connection from the device to your DAW or rig can be very poor!

If you have some extra cash maybe look to spend the extra on a different foot switcher, for the simple reason that you want something alittle more consistent especially if you are a gigging muscian!

Disappointed

Needed a basic midi footswitch to toggle reverb on/off with Behringer XAir 12, this did the job but the 'bank down' foot switch failed after a few weeks :-(

I think for the manual they should also include how to connect it to a DAW and how to set it up if possible to map all the buttons freely.

Kind of struggling to make it work in Ableton, thinking to send it back if I will not find a way for this...

Does the yob great, custom settings are a hastle.

The pedal does a great job.

If you use it with Bias, Kemper, etc. and use the modes that are pre configured it works great.

The drivers for Windows are pretty wonky, on mac it works great.

The custom modes are a hastle, the manual does not explain completely what every setting does.

I made my custom one and it had a little bit of delay when switching and a sizzle sound.

For the price it is ok.

Limited functionality

I was a bit disappointed with the functionality of the device. You can't do a lot of things in the CC domain. Only this:

- Option 1: Send value 127 when pressing

- Option 2: Toggle Send value 127 when pressing, Send 0 when pressing again, and so on

I really need the option to send a 0 (or whatever value) when I want to and to have the option to send 127 when pressed and 0 when released. This is unfortunately not possible with this device. So I had to return it.

Also for use with the HX Stomp: It doesn't support banks of 3 so that is a problem for the HXstomp & the usage of PC.