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Check out the MIR: http://www.audiomidi.com/MIR-U1-P1092.aspx It has an expansion kit that adds programmable footswitches and an expression pedal. ----- Music: http://www.kellycoyle.net Blog: http://wwwquotidianme.blogspot.com/ On Dec 28, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Per Boysen 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 > >