Recently bought an EV-7 volume pedal for my Roland RD800 keyboard. Started noticing strange things. I use lots of split keyboard edits, and it seems as though (sometimes, not all the time) when I use the pedal to adjust volume, only one of the keyboard splits has its volume adjusted. Cycling keyboard power will usually fix this.
I know the EV-7 isn't the recommended pedal for the RD800. (The EV-5 is recommended but it... sucks.) Lots of folks have recommended EV-7 for the RD800 on this forum.
Anyone have similar experience and/or advice? Thanks.
I have an EV-7, two of them actually. Nice long sweep, not like the shxtty EV-5 which is pretty much useless.
The behaviour you describe, in my opinion, has nothing to do with the pedal, it either works or it doesnt. You mentioned that sometimes only one side of the split works. If the one side is working then the pedal is properly transmitting as it should. It has something to do with how that particular program is configured, something is not configured properly in the zone that is not responding. Recheck your work of that program carefully. You mentioned that when you reboot the keyboard that it works, so is there a knob, slider, etc. that potentially is overriding the pedal instructions for that zone while your playing that program. As i said previously,check all the settings carefully in that programs zone, potentially some other controller is turning off the expression pedal in that zone. Also ensure that the program has the latest operating system running, there may have been a bug that causes this behaviouur to occur that may have been fixed in the latest operating system update.
One other thought, the previous program that your are using before you switch to this program may have instructions on its exit value of that program to turn off expression on that zone, so when you enter this program the previous program has set the expression pedal off for this zone in the program. This could explain why when you recycle the keyboard everything initially works. When it happens note which program you previously left before entering this program and see if there are instructions from the previous program to turn expression off on its exit which might be carried over to this program.
