[sdiy] circuitbending expensive gear (or ESD-safe body contacts)

[Scott Juskiw]

At 8:55 AM -0600 2006/01/25, S. P. W.  wrote:
>While we are talking about CV I got a yamaha expression pedal with TRS
>1/4 plug, plugged it into my Matrix 6, and get only a change from 0 to
>2 according to midi monitor with the full range of motion. Did i get
>the wrong kind of pedal, or am I missing something. Values possible
>are from 1 to 64 or so, so that seems a bit limited to say the least.
>I have heard of a CV pedal, is that what I need?

Try swapping the tip and ring connection. IIRC, Oberheim gear uses 
the Roland pedal standard, not the Yamaha one. I built a simple TRS 
ring/tip switching patch cable (TRS plug on one end, TRS inline jack 
on the other end) that I use with my Yamaha pedals on non-Yamaha gear.