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Topic: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

I just recieved my new Roland DP-10 Half Damper Pedal. Perfect!

I plugged it in, set the switch to continuous (half damper),
apllied the correct settings to my NUMA Nero and it works
perfectly. It's a darn site better than the FC3 by Yamaha -
better build quality.

Also, I'm having absolutely no irregular velocities from the
pedal when hooked up with the Nero.

I would seriously, heartily and without reserve or hesitation
recommend this product to anyone looking for an exceptionally
well made and performing half damper pedal!

5 Stars!!!

Regards,

Chris

Reply by Michael H

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Re: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

I like my DP10 too. It has the nice option of being either a continuous pedal or a switch-type pedal. A nice touch.

The DP10 pedal (at least mine) does squeak from time to time, just like the Yamaha, but unlike with the Yamaha changing my foot position on the pedal usually gets rid of the noise.

Reply by moshuajusic

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Re: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jsg215/CIMG0432.JPG
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jsg215/CIMG0434.JPG
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jsg215/CIMG0435.JPG

HOWEVER! The one I was using for continuous sustain recently started sending messed up MIDI values to Pianoteq. I could've opened it up and tried to fix it, but I just flipped the switch to on-off function and swapped it for the middle one. Furthermore, I tried both the other fully functional DP-10s, and they sent different MIDI values. One went up to about 118, the other went up to 127. So they're not quite as reliable or consistent as they could be. I would've stuck with Yamaha were their pedal bottoms conducive to making such a pedalboard, or if their switch pedal were the same size as their continuous pedal.

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Re: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

Joshua, it looks from your first picture that there is one pedal that differs from the other two. Is one a DP-8 and the others DP-10's or is it the other way round? Or are they all the same, just a variation in manufacture?

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Reply by moshuajusic

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Re: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

I believe they're all DP-10. If one looks different, that's my fault. Or maybe it's just the angle.

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Re: Roland DP-10 Half Damper pedal

I use a DP 10 too. But with my Studiologic 188+ it doesn't reach either 127 nor 0 (it goes from around 5 or 6 to 121 or 122 or something similar). This is not a problem if I only play pianoteq, but when I play other synths (like logics synths, organ or rhodes) it results in constant sustain, no end of the notes... In switch mode it gives 0 or 127, so playing other instruments I have to have the pedal on switch-mode... But in switch-mode it sometimes don't give the right value...

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