[Sebastian] has a friend who would like to use a pedal with his MIDI setup, but his keyboard doesn’t support one. Some might interpret that as a sign you need to buy a new keyboard. But [Sebastian] has already done a lot of work with the MIDI protocol. He knew it should be possible to create a MIDI pass-through which adds support for a pedal.
You can see the two MIDI cables connected to the box above. One is the input from the keyboard, the other is the output to the synthesizer. There is also a jack for a pedal input to the left. The chip inside intercepts each packet, rolling in values based from the pedal input and passing on the altered packets to the synthesizer. As you can hear in the video after the break, this works like a charm.
Catch more of [Sebastian’s] midi work by following his keyboard sensor replacement projects.
Actually my friend is using a guitar to midi converter to control a synthesizer keyboard. And you know midi equipment that has cool stuff like progressive pedal inputs are rather expensive ;)
the midi protocol is really simple. you can find all the info on midi.org.
Seriously it’s the easiest usefull protocol alive.
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does this usb pedal work with midi?
anyway it can’t be attached to a hardware midi synth.
It doesn’t look like a CC control, just a switch. Needs to be told what to hook up to, look at last pic.
That is genius
Yes, pure genius! Very nice! Inspires me to do similar things on my midi controllers!