How to send only sustain on/off MIDI signals?

[mattydemont]

Dear all,

I am not sure whether this question was posted before; I searched but could not find anything. Anyway, I would like to use my sustain pedal to trigger both my Nord Electro 5D and Yamaha Reface CP. I connected a MIDI cable from the NE5D OUT to the Reface IN. The sustain pedal triggers both keyboards, but I don't want the NE73D to send MIDI notes. Can I program my NE5D such that it only sends sustain on/off MIDI signals to my Yamaha Reface CP and no MIDI notes?

Thanks,

Matty

[anotherscott]

No, the only things the Nord lets you filter out are control changes and program changes, you can' filter out keys. There used to be a sustain pedal you could wire into two keyboards, but the company is gone. Easiest thing would be to put a pair of the simple square sustain pedals right next to each other (maybe velcro'd to a piece of plywood) so you could hit them both at the same time. (Also gives you the flexibility to hit just one.) A more expensive/complicated way would be to use something like a MIDI Solutions processor to filter what MIDI you want to pass or block between the two keyboards.

[mattydemont]

Easiest thing would be to put a pair of the simple square sustain pedals right next to each other (maybe velcro'd to a piece of plywood) so you could hit them both at the same time.

Like this:
nord-stage-forum-f3/disable-organ-swell ... tml#p46767

[mattydemont]

Dear all,

Thanks for your useful responses. I already have a MIDI Solutions Thru box and I love their products. I sent them an email requesting whether they can make a MIDI Solutions box at reasonable cost that filters out all MIDI messages, except CC 64 for sustain on/off. I like the simplicity and elegance of a single sustain pedal controlling two keyboards.

Cheers,

Matty

[anotherscott]

The MIDI Solutions Router and Event Processors can probably do it.

[Quai34]

Just ask your tech to build one for you, 50$, two inputs, e output n a little red box....I trigger both the NL2X and the D50 with one pedal only, on he right side but I also have another on the left side, when it's a sustained chords and when I still want to use my free foot for the stage 2...
Or I sustain both P08 & P12....Would you like me to take a picture of it and ask him the schematic?

[mattydemont]

Sustain Pedal Splitter Systems (http://store.rosensound.com/store/produ ... r-systems/) seems to offer a solution as well. Anybody tried this?