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Expression pedals.
« on: August 11, 2006, 05:54:04 PM »

Is it possible to just get the mechanism for an expression pedal so you can wire it in as a controller for a keyboard etc?
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Re: Expression pedals.
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2006, 06:04:56 PM »

er, yes............its called an expression pedal, erm........

All you have inside an expression pedal is a pot with a pedal attached to it. This means that any synth with an expression pedal input can have a knob added to the front panel wired striaght to the expression pedal input.

I have a knob added to my Casio FZ1 sampler that i think can control filter cutoff via the expression pedal input. I haven't turned it on for about a year and a half so i'm not entirely sure.
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Re: Expression pedals.
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2006, 06:45:13 PM »

Ah right, didn't know that...had the term thrown at me today in regards to a analouge drum synth I'm modding. Are they expensive at all?
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Re: Expression pedals.
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2006, 07:26:10 PM »

I got a decent one from ebay fro £8 but that was a fluke i think. Bear in mind that in order to be as irritating as possible there are two plug polarities used by Yamaha and Roland etc

I think the more popular method is the roland one but i'm not sure you uses either way round.
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Re: Expression pedals.
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2006, 11:41:07 PM »

There are some switchable ones too, so you can filp the polarity of them to work
on various brands of keyboard (yamaha & roland being two of them).

Think the one I got years ago cost me £12 or there abouts.
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