Added Second Manual, Lost Swell Pedal

[alexanderlyon]

Hello everyone,

With help from some forum members, I've just added an upper manual to my Electro by sticking an M-Audio midi controller on top and swapping my lower and upper manual settings between the two. (You can see the details and even a photo here.)

Everything went smoothly, except for one thing: My swell pedal (a Yamaha FC7) no longer works--though the sustain pedal I have been using as a Leslie switch *does* still function!

Any idea why that might have happened, and how I might be able to fix it? It's wonderful having a second manual, and the M-Audio even feels somewhat like the Electro. But if I can't get the swell pedal working again, I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board...

[Schorsch]

Did you by mistake maybe plugged the swell pedal into the wrong jack? It should be independent on the second keybed …

[alexanderlyon]

No, I'm certainly capable of doing that, but it was the first thing I checked!

The swell pedal and rotor/sustain pedal are plugged into the same places they were originally on the Nord. The rotor pedal still works, but the swell pedal no longer does. I'll try unplugging/plugging it in again and rebooting everything to see what happens...

[alexanderlyon]

This is very strange. I went to the control pedal screen under system settings, and as I played with the FC7, I could see the percentage changing on the screen--but there was no difference in the sound.

[alexanderlyon]

Aha!

The problem seems to be that in order to get the settings I wanted on the upper and lower manuals using the "External Keybd to Lo" function, I had to enter "Live" mode--but that disables the swell pedal. When I exit Live mode and return to my old split program on the Electro, the swell pedal works again--but I am stuck using a single set of settings (drawbars, percussion, chorus) on both manuals.

Is there any way to get the swell pedal working in Live mode with a second manual attached?

[alexanderlyon]

Fixed it! I was able to do what I wanted without engaging Live mode--and now I have no idea how or why I wound up in it to begin with.

It's strange though that Live mode disables the swell pedal. Is there a reason for that?