MIDI Pedal Does Pitch Bend

[DungBeatle]

Anyone tried this?

MIDI Solutions Pedal Controller; Continuous MIDI Data Generator

Does it work very well? I want one for pitch bend.
~Bob

 

[anotherscott]

Yes, it worked fine for pitch bend, I used a Roland DP-10 pedal. (I wanted a pedal that would auto-release to true pitch, not one I'd have to bring back every time myself, so it would function more like the pitch benders on most keyboards.) I programmed it for a whole step up. (Note that you'd have to program it to be up or down, it can't be both.)

 

[DungBeatle]

Yes, it worked fine for pitch bend, I used a Roland DP-10 pedal. (I wanted a pedal that would auto-release to true pitch, not one I'd have to bring back every time myself, so it would function more like the pitch benders on most keyboards.) I programmed it for a whole step up. (Note that you'd have to program it to be up or down, it can't be both.)

Thanks! I'll be using a Roland DP-10 pedal myself. And I only want it to pitch bend up.
~Bob

 

[DungBeatle]

I bought one.
~Bob

 

[amwilburn]

I'm a little confused; what keyboard are you plugging into? Every Yamaha that can take an FC3 (it's not compatible with all keyboards) you can set that analog pedal to pitch bend already (which you see me use in my Bohemian Rhapsody on CVP709 video, I use analog sustain for the guitar pitch bend), no pedal controller required.... ? Hence my confusion

Mark

 

[anotherscott]

I'm a little confused; what keyboard are you plugging into? Every Yamaha that can take an FC3 (it's not compatible with all keyboards) you can set that analog pedal to pitch bend already (which you see me use in my Bohemian Rhapsody on CVP709 video, I use analog sustain for the guitar pitch bend), no pedal controller required.... ? Hence my confusion

OP doesn't necessarily have a Yamaha, or one that takes an FC3. ;-) (Though it's also not true that every Yamaha that can take an FC3 could do this... my CK and YC do not, and I'd be surprised to find that ability in numerous other Yamahas that are even less capable than those, even if they support the FC3.)

Yamaha keyboard or not, in order to accomplish this without that MIDI Solutions Pedal Controller (or some other external device to accomplish this function), you would need to be using a board that has an expression pedal jack with sufficiently adjustable parameters that it could be programmed for value 0 to be true pitch and max value to be pitch bend up by the desired max interval. Not every board that takes an expression pedal allows you to program it for pitch bend.

(Alternatively, if you're short on expression pedal jacks, you may also be able to use the jack you'd normally use for your sustain pedal--sacrificing its sustain function--if that jack supports half-dampering and also allows you to reassign the function of the damper pedal jack to pitch bend as above.)

If you don't have a board that supports the above, the MIDI Solutions box with the DP10 is a solution, as long as the board recognizes pitch bend over MIDI and has a 5-pin MIDI IN connector.