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I know of the 'midi mouse', but I believe it only sends pc messages... If you were to use a jlcooper cs-32 controller, it has a momentary switch input as well, although I gotta say, that faderfox looks incredible... http://jlcooper.com/pages/cs32.html I hope this is helpful, per. T. On 12/28/05 2:33 PM, "Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se> wrote: > Dear List, > > Can someone recommend a SMALL midi foot pedal? I could do with just a > button that send a midi note (note on, note off) or two values of a > midi cc parameter. I would also appreciate an expression pedal, but > that's not on top of the list. > > The background is that I'm having enough of this bulky and heavy > Behringer FCB1010 pedal board (yesterday I was caught "overweight" > at a flight check-in). I want to use the two ultra small MIDI mixers > seen on this picture: > http://www.faderfox.com/Erweiterungen/Pict0024/pict0024.html > I already own the one with faders and I'm hoping to get the one with > buttons as well. But I need at least ONE midi button for foot work. > What are you keyboard players using? Aren't there small pedals that > send just one MIDI msg? > > I'm thinking that I really don't need all the ten buttons of the FCB > floor board. Instead of tap dancing over it to pitch transpose my > looping into chord vamps I could as well program the pitch transpose > action commands into a MIDI files (in Ableton Live) and use the pedal > to "step to the next chord". In Ableton Live you may have hundreds of > such chains (differently related pitch transposing intervals) and you > can use a hand button to choose the sequence and then the foot button > to step through it. That would be a much neater set-up IMHO. > > I've been able to try out a rig as described above by using a usual > "sustain pedal" for a synth and them collecting the synth's MIDI OUT > for the command going into the looper, but I would need a plain MIDI > pedal because I can't take that big synth to gigs just to use it as a > converter from an analog switch into a MIDI cc msg. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.looproom.com (international) > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > ---> iTunes Music Store (digital) > www.cdbaby.com/perboysen > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ³Virtue is just repression waiting to go bad² - Trevor Exter ³Classical music is related to the past more than it is related to the creative part of sound² - Ornette Coleman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Todd Reynolds 42-09 47th Ave 1C Sunnyside, NY 11104 Ph. 718 392-3773 Mob. 917 576-6166 Fax 419 781-5502 http://www.toddreynolds.com todd@toddreynolds.com 9175766166@vtext.com (155 characters or less) AIM ID: toddreyn