16 Aug
2009
16 Aug
'09
6:33 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:49:11AM -1000, david wrote:
Dominic Sacr?? wrote:
My teacher has one of these pedals. It was made in Italy and went with some keyboard
he's long since gotten rid of.
I took it apart and there are two contact strips: one for the downstroke and one for the
upstroke. So I guess it sends a note message for pedal down, and one for pedal up. It only
has a 1/4" tip/sleeve jack so I'm not sure how it's sending that to the
keyboard.
Since playing around with the Steinway Gigasample, I keep thinking it'd be nice if the
pedal could be more expressive and get those "in between" spots or just not
CLANG if I life the pedal gently.
-ken
Hi Julien,
On Friday 07 of August 2009 08:26:26 Julien Claassen wrote:
Yes, I miss that in my digital piano playing!
If you want that, you need an "expression
pedal". The sustain
pedeals just do normal or sustain, no degrees. What should they
signify?
The sustain pedal on an acoustic piano does not act as a simple on/off
switch. Pressing the pedal lifts the damper from the strings, but it's
also possible to let the damper just slightly touch the strings by not
pressing the pedal all the way down. For some piano pieces, this
technique is even essential to play them properly. There are sustain pedals which allow for this
half pedal effect, but
they can't be used with all keyboards. I've only seen this feature in
digital pianos / stage pianos (88 keys with hammer action, etc.).
I'm not sure if it's supported by any of the more simple MIDI controller
keyboards.
Perhaps an expression pedal could be mapped to function as a sustain
more like a real piano's sustain pedal?