The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Does anyone use the "foot controller"? I've found that a couple of synths
I'm doubling with don't allow incoming mod wheel messages to be disabled.
This means that using the default scene morph control - the mod wheel -
causes slaved synths to LFO modulate, which is not what I need when morphing
between scenes. If I had a foot pedal, that could be mapped to scene morph
and not affect the other boxes.

Which comes to the question - has anyone bought a pedal that works with the
AN1x, if so where, and how much?

Thanks,
Ed

Edwards, Ed shared with us:

>
> Which comes to the question - has anyone bought a pedal that works with the
> AN1x, if so where, and how much?

Not yet, but I want one. The thing is, you need a Yamaha one, because
Yamaha works differently from the likes of Korg and Roland. Perhaps
there are other brands as well, but best is to try before you buy,
on any Yamaha synth.

[I'm using a foot switch on my EX5 for sustain at the moment, and
I should be ordering a expression (or volume) pedal. The EX5 can
use two pedals and two switches in total.]

Price should be around 180 guilders, 90 euros, or some 85 US$. At
least, that's what they told me.

- Peter

> Does anyone use the "foot controller"? >
> has anyone bought a pedal that works with the
> AN1x, if so where, and how much?

I use a Roland EV-5 which has a (physical) depth adjustment knob.
Works fine with the Yammie for most things. Unfortunately, most of
the cool AN1x routings require that you use the patch mod matrix
rather than the common settings. Which requires you to program patch
by patch.

However, mod wheel (for scene morph) is available in the common area.
One problem I noted is that the Roland is just a little shy of the
entire morph range (0-127 steps instead of 1-128?). This becomes a
problem when morphing between two patches that have different
oscillator tunings. Since the morph does not go all the way (C3 to
C4) you get stuck with a "wrong" note (B) at the end of the morph. I
tend not to use such morphs since I detest the sound of stair-stepped
pitch sweeps, but if you do these you will have a problem with the EV-
5. I wonder if there is a way to cure this problem?

I bought it at GC (I forget how much). ZZounds has them for $60.

Cheers,

Jerry