Control transport via midi footswitch

Hi. First time post so please excuse my ignorance. I have two questions.

First, I am looking for a hardware sequencer that can respond to a midi footswitch such as a Line 6 Helix or Boss Es-8. I play guitar and want to setup a foot switch to turn a sequencer on/off. The manual and midi implementation chart don’t seem very specific when it comes to transport controls like start/stop/record. I will be controlling a Korg Minilogue xd as well as a drum machine I haven’t chosen yet. Is this possible? It needs to support polyphony and 64 steps. Not sure if Beatstep or Keystep Pro would be good options.

Second, I’ve written songs in the box using soft synths and have converted to midi tracks and successfully sent them via midi to the minilogue xd. Is it easy to record midi from logic to either of these devices?

I’ve not found many good tutorials on YouTube that use this workflow as it seems specific to a band integrating electronic instruments as opposed to edm producers and the like. I don’t have free hands as I’ll be playing guitar most of the time.

Thanks in advance!!