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Topic: Roland DP-10 and acuna88

Hi all.

Quite new to this but am trying to get what I believed to be a continuos velocity pedal to work with my Studiologic Acuna88. Problem is, as soon as I plug it in it depresses the sustain pedal on pianoteq. The polarity is clearly the wrong way round. Upon calibration, Pianoteq points this out to me and suggests I switch polarity either at the pedal or on the midi keyboard. No switch on the pedal and can't see an option on the acuna88 menu. It goes on to say that Pianoteq can deal with the problem but no mention as to how.

Also, if I switch the pedal between 'switch' and 'continuos' it makes no difference to the midi values it sends out. On either it is still on or off and I can't get continuous midi values to be sent.

So my questions are:
1. Why is it reversed?
2. How can I fix that with Pianoteq
3. Why am I not able to get continuous working with the pedal.

I'm hoping that because I am using 2 very common products in a very common way, there is an obvious answer out there. As I say, I'm hoping that!

Any guidance much appreciated.

Reply by Gilles

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Re: Roland DP-10 and acuna88

In Options/MIDI just reverse the range of Controller 64 (Sustain Pedal) to [1.00, 0] instead of [0, 1.00]. That should do it.

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Re: Roland DP-10 and acuna88

You should have a look at the pedal specs in the user manual of your acuna88. It states that the acuna supports switch sustain pedals only. If you want to use a continuous pedal with it you have to plug your pedal into the expression/volume pedal jack. I don't know if the keyboard itself has an option to route this to the sustain pedal cc, but pianoteq has. You can simply tell it to take the controller the keyboard sends out on pedal movements and assign it to the sustain pedal.

hope that helps.
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Sebastian

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Re: Roland DP-10 and acuna88

sebion wrote:

You should have a look at the pedal specs in the user manual of your acuna88. It states that the acuna supports switch sustain pedals only. If you want to use a continuous pedal with it you have to plug your pedal into the expression/volume pedal jack. I don't know if the keyboard itself has an option to route this to the sustain pedal cc, but pianoteq has. You can simply tell it to take the controller the keyboard sends out on pedal movements and assign it to the sustain pedal.

hope that helps.
regards,
Sebastian

Genius! Thanks so much. Worked a treat and polarity is correct now without needing to swap values. I've read the manual a few times but I'm still at the point where not much of it makes sense. Your explanation certainly did though so thanks.