[sdiy] potentially dumb question - MIDI chord pedals??

[Harry Bissell Jr]

I suppose you could just use multiple contacts on
a footswitch (or maybe diode matrix equivalent...
and trick one of Roman's cute little keyboard encoders
to play a number of notes with a single key press.

The programming might be a little harder :^P

H^) harry

--- Roman <modular at go2.pl> wrote:

>    
> 
> 	isn't it possible to use Midi-Yoke or other MIDI
> software to trigger any MIDI events by single
> note-ons? I'd say it's possible to find such a tool.
> 
> 	If I had more time, I'd make a special PIC keybaord
> encoder with "chord memory" button, although it
> would be rather tricky to play a chord on pedelboard
> consisting of more than 2 notes. Another option
> would be to press a special button, like bypass
> switch on effect boxes, and while it's activated,
> all notes that are sequentially played, will form a
> chord when the button is released. 
> 	IIRC someone on this list has recently done that,
> with beautifull wooden case and cute yellow control
> panel. 
> 	Roman 
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> Do: Synth-Diy 
> Data: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:42:18 -0400
> Temat: [sdiy] potentially dumb question - MIDI chord
> pedals??
> 
>    Hi everyone,   I am wondering if there exists a
> pedal board that one could program to send out MIDI
> data for playing three or four note chords, one
> chord per pedal.  It would be laid out like a
> guitarist's effects pedal board, but each pedal
> 'button' would sound a user-programmed chord via
> MIDI.  The use would be similar to those chord
> buttons one finds on little Casio keyboards, or on a
> accordion, to allow someone who is standing up
> playing a bass or guitar to play padding chords with
> the feet.     Does such a thing a thing exist, or
> would it be hard to make one (PIC, etc.) ?    
> thanks,   Dave  
> 
>