I googled for a solution and finally got myself Bome's midi translator. Also-You have a new Keyboard, that means it comes with a manual, Use It! Sustain pedal controler change (CC) is CC64 values 127 = pedal down value 0 = pedal up. A while ago, the sustain pedal decided it didn't have time for your rules, man, and that it would flip its functionality: i.e. I now notice that Live does respond to sustain pedal messages, only when recording and playing live the sustain stops not when I release the pedal but as soon as all MIDI notes are off. The calibration process will fix this, and only takes a few minutes. Yes I did. Everything works fine except for the sustain pedal which does exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to do. This has persisted through unplugging the pedal and power cycling both the Korg and my Mac. and how this is done. All you have to do is press and hold the footswitch to create instant, natural sounding feedback and sustain for as long as you’d like. If it is just a pot, the same is basically true. Thank you. All it does is to interrupt the signal. There's section on editing footswitch pedal inputs. When you want to use a pedal, raise the front of your foot and move it forward. The more you add, the “richer” the sustain tone will sound. Many FCB1010 units ship with expression pedals that do not work correctly. But now I'm a bit confused with the setup of Bome. notes sustain when I am not pressing it down, and they stop when I press it down. Adjusts the amount of sympathetic resonance in the instrument while the sustain pedal is pressed. So here I am all excited with my new top-of-the-line S61 controller and for some reason my Roland sustain pedal works in the opposite way that it should - sustains while not being held down, cuts off sustain when you press on it… There is no polarity switch on this particular Roland sustain pedal. At 0, the Pedal Noise sounds at the level it was recorded. Place the ball of your foot on the rounded end of the pedal, in line with the big toe. These are Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release, the acronym for this is ADSR for short. It still works fine in MainStage. You should be positioned just BEHIND the frets, and you usually want to use the PAD on your finger with a bass rather than the TIP of your finger as you do with a guitar. Reversing the wires going to the switch doesn't do anything about polarity. At 0, the Sustain Body sounds at its natural level. How to use the pedals. Assuming your firmware is OK, you will need to calibrate your two expression pedals. However, the sustain process actually comprises 4 main segments. The pedal is a clean boost with a fantastically designed feedback filter built in. I'm using an Alesis Q49 keyboard together with Ableton Live 8.0.1 in order to do some recording. Those big strings will bounce up and down on the fret if you're not holding it down firmly, losing sustain. If the ordinary sustain pedal is just a switch, it has no 'polarity'. Do you in fact have it plugged into the Footswitch jack and not the Expression pedal jack? When listening to back to my recording, I've got a couple of sustain notes that go on for two long (where I help the pedal down for a bit longer than i should have) How exactly do Guitar Sustain Pedals work? What do you need to change? I have a Korg M1 keyboard and an M-Gear sustain pedal. Ok, so as previously mentioned, the Sustain effect is merely an extension of the current signal that is being played. Logic Pro X: How do you edit recorded MIDI sustain? Adjusts the volume of the pedal noise. See here to find out what version you have, whether you might need to upgrade. Line them up so the big toes of both feet are in line with the left and right pedals. Like the previous option, you also won’t be investing in a one-trick pony, as a clean boost is a must-have for any guitarist. t Sustain Body: Off - 0 - +10 dB. If you are sitting correctly, your feet should be flat on the floor. After switching from Logic 8 to Logic 9, the sustain pedal on my Korg MIDI keyboard stopped acting as a sustain and started acting as a start/stop of the track. On playback the sustain is as it should be.