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Hi guys, I'm glad to find out that NE6D works just fine with midi sustain, and to get this you just need a continuous pedal, a usb cable and some python scripts.
1.The sustain is controlled inside the keyboard by midi CC64, however the sustain pedal jack only reads out two values - 0 and 127. But the control pedal jack can get continuous values, as CC11. So what I should do is to plug the pedal into control jack, get CC11 messages out and reroute them back as CC64.
2.The python package mido is handy to do such conversion (if needed I can post some code), and I got something else playing with it. For example, you can get a knob to work as a "pitchbend knob" without centring but at least with detent. Or you can get the pedal to work as a one-way pitchbend, or vibrato, etc.
Anyway, having half-pedalling is a good thing for piano playing and I'm going to get a Roland DP-10.

Hello, are you sure the Piano section of NE6 handles half-pedaling via CC64 (if I remember well, it doesn't, put it is pretty easy to test even wothout using a real pedal, just sending some CC64 values over NE6 Global Channel)

maxpiano wrote: 02 Nov 2024, 15:15 Hello, are you sure the Piano section of NE6 handles half-pedaling via CC64 (if I remember well, it doesn't, put it is pretty easy to test even wothout using a real pedal, just sending some CC64 values over NE6 Global Channel)

Yes, that’s what I did, and the sustain time was apparently affected.