Topic by justpin

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Topic: Pianoteq questions

Hi

Sorry for many questions but I've been drooling over a RD700NX for a long time.

The thing is the price is way too high. What I have now is a Casio CDP200R.

And a i3 2.4Ghz laptop with 8gb of ram.

I do not intend to use monitors and rely on headphones. Is this a decent set up?

Secondly the CDP200R has an on off sustain pedal therefore I assume the CDP200R will send midi values of ON or OFF. How can I get full continuous sustain capability? Is there a USB type sustain pedal? Or something which I can send midi values in the full 0-127 range? As this is my biggest bugbear of my CDP its just on and off.


Thank you.

Reply by EvilDragon

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Re: Pianoteq questions

You really should have a controller that supports continuous sustain pedal if you want to get best results. Check out Studiologic MIDI controllers.

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Re: Pianoteq questions

For the continuous sustain pedal, if your controller has an expression pedal port, you can probably get away with using that and assigning it to CC #64 for sustain pedal. Any standard pedal with a TRS 1/4" jack should work with such a setup.

As for system requirements, your PC is powerful enough to get very decent results from Pianoteq.

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Re: Pianoteq questions

justpin wrote:

Secondly the CDP200R has an on off sustain pedal therefore I assume the CDP200R will send midi values of ON or OFF. How can I get full continuous sustain capability? Is there a USB type sustain pedal? Or something which I can send midi values in the full 0-127 range? As this is my biggest bugbear of my CDP its just on and off.

As far as I know, for continuous sustain pedal you can take any midi-keyboard and sustain pedal and run them through a MIDI Solutions Pedal Controller, which is designed exactly for this purpose.