From mon8169@iservicesmail.com Tue Jun 27 08:56:43 2006
Subject:RE: VK8M Rotary On/Off?

you have to chage physically the position of the switch inside the
pedal, in a way that if now is open at the pedals rest position, it
should be closed in the new position (an open when the pedal is pressed)

It's hard to help more from the distance, and harder without seeing the
pedal... but I'm sure it can be done...

Ramon


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De: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] En
nombre de jake92028
Enviado el: diumenge, 25 / juny / 2006 13:13
Para: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Asunto: [CWSG] VK8M Rotary On/Off?

I'm trying to set my Roland VK8M module up with my Casio PX '88 piano
that's also playing a Kurz ME1 for piano. Using a MIDI Solutions
Mapper, which they don't make any more, but I still have the simple
program tool for - I can get it to swap cc64 sustain to cc80 rotary
on. Well this is weird because as soon as I turn the VK8M on: Rotary
is on fast all the time, except while stepping down on the sustain
pedal which switches it back to slow only as long as I keep the
pedal depressed. As soon as I let up, it goes back to full speed. So
I took the Roland sustain pedal I was using, opened it up and
switched/resoldered the wires on the internal switch. I felt this
was pretty clever until.. I plugged the polarity-reversed sustain
pedal in and got exactly the same result! (Yes, I checked my
connections again afterward :)

I tried all my sustain pedals, looked in all my old gear bags, no
luck with any of them, same result. What is really strange is I can
plug a 1/4" phone plug patch cord in the sustain socket, then plug
its other end into a female stereo adapter that terminates in a
right and left RCA plug: By touching the tips of the RCA plugs
together I get fast rotary, and when I break that connection I get
slow rotary. Now what could I plug into this crazy socket to get the
same result? ..especially since reversing the polarity on the same
sustain pedal didn't work. That's reaally* weird.

Any tips, suggestions, mad scientist solutions will be gratefully
appreciated. I'd like find out how to switch the rotary on/off from
a sustain type or other simple floor switch, which I've always been
able to do with my other clone gear. This is the way I like it =
step on it to speed up, let up to go back to chorale, since I'm
ramping up and down constantly just like a Hammond/Leslie switch on
its console, flippin' it back and forth all the time. Help!

TIA ~ Walter j



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