Pedal Trouble...

[Saintnowhere]

Hey all,

I bought a damper pedal the day I picked up my Korg M50. I came home, hooked it up and then tried to set it up in the global settings. Even though I changed the option to foot pedal in settings, I don't see that it works. Does it only work with certain sounds or is there another setting besides global that I'm overlooking? Thanks.

[jacke]

Did you connect it to the assignable pedal port or the damper pedal port?

[billbaker]

Saint...

Think jacke got it in one. There are two input jacks for straightforward momentary switches - aka damper pedals. One will say "damper" or "sustain" - one will say simply "pedal" or "assignable". The first does what a damper pedal on a piano does - provides sustain for sounds. The second can be assigned within a program or combi to do any number of things depending on programing; as a selectable controller the list is too big to get into here.

You want to make sure you don't have a latching or a/b switch - it would give you sustain UNTIL you pressed it again. Also, you want to have selected the correct polarity so that it works as expected; i.e., push down - get sustain.

But it sounds like you just plugged into the wrong jack.

To further complicate matters (and you thought this was an easy one) there may be some programs or combis that DON'T use the sustain pedal, or for which the pedal is deliberately DE-activated for performance (sustain on piano only of a piano/string split) or realism (no sustain pedal for organ) reasons. You just have to feel your way through. But as a rule, sustain is usually active on almost all patches. If you don't hear it working, suspect the pedal or jack, not the programming.

BB

[Saintnowhere]

Thanks so much bill. I appreciate the info. I will definitely check my connections to make sure it's plugged int correctly.