DBGaither Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I'm a newbie. I was given an M-Audio Radium-49 (with bad USB - of course) that I have connected to Mainstage via MIDI. I just grabbed the sustain pedal from my Kurzweil SP88 keyboard. Although the pedal triggers properly with the SP88, it is opposite on the Radium-49. With other keyboards I've used, you can just depress the pedal while you turn the keyboard on and it will adjust. But this is not working. I do not know how to make the Radium compensate for this, but this should be a parameter I can adjust in Mainstage (I would think). I've looked everywhere and cannot find the info. So, how do I make Mainstage interpret the pedal switch properly? Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Savage Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 My "toggle pedals" have a polarity switch, does yours? My pedals are used as a Leslie speed switch on the Hammond and the other as a sustainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBGaither Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 No- no toggle switch. I could, of course, just re-wire the pedal. But then it wouldn't work right with the Kurzweil (not sure if the trick mentioned above would work). It just seems as though this should be a modifiable parameter in Mainstage. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Savage Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 What pedal do you have? Mine are Roland FS-5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBGaither Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 It's a Kurzweil. No model number. Say's "Made In Italy" on the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Savage Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Kurzweil... Have you checked their site? The toggle style pedals that I see are these: FS-1 KFP-1 KFP-2M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I don't know that specific pedal but often the polarity gets switched just by turning the power on and off on the controller/instrument that the pedal is plugged into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBGaither Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 I have a KFP-1 footswitch. As I mentioned earlier, I have tried the soft-switch method (power cycling the controller while depressing the pedal) and that doesn't work. I guess, there is no setting in MainStage to accommodate my request. It seemed like a logical kind of soft modification. But I guess, because the controller interprets the switch and sends the MIDI code for an activated switch to MainStage, there is no way to re-interpret the MIDI signal sent by the controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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