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Hey gang, 
Any suggestions for an inexpensive gate pedal that would be 
Wiard/Blacet compatible? In a recent performance, I suddenly 
realized how much easier it would be to fire off one of my 
patches with a pedal  situated next to my hi-hat than searching 
for the tiny button on my Chaos module. (I was already using the 
gate buttons on my Wiard joysticks for another patch...)

Thanks for any and all suggestions,
g

> I suddenly 
> realized how much easier it would be to fire off one of my
> patches with a pedal  situated next to my hi-hat than searching
> for the tiny button on my Chaos module.
As you mention 'hi-hat', what about a DW trigger pedal or one of the drum
kat trigger pedals? Or a simmons pad?
I'm not sure what voltage they spit out though.
Sorry to be drummist.

At 07:46 AM 7/6/04 +0100, Chris Whitten <cw.chris@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> > I suddenly
> > realized how much easier it would be to fire off one of my
> > patches with a pedal  situated next to my hi-hat than searching
> > for the tiny button on my Chaos module.
>
>As you mention 'hi-hat', what about a DW trigger pedal or one of the drum
>kat trigger pedals? Or a simmons pad?
>I'm not sure what voltage they spit out though.
>Sorry to be drummist.

As I mentioned in the "live" thread, I've used drum triggers (pads, or 
those stick-on triggers for acoustic drums, not pedals, but I'm sure they 
spit out the same type of voltage), which can be plugged into "gate" 
inputs.  They'll work well for triggering envelator envelopes, because 
those are really "triggered", and not "gated" EG's.  On the other hand, the 
VCO/Waveform City EG's are "gated", so unless you have the attack time set 
to minimum on those, the maximum output level of the EG will depend on how 
hard you hit the trigger pad (hitting harder yields a longer trigger pulse, 
which gives the EG more time to ramp up) ... a nifty means of incorporating 
"touch sensitivity" into your modular (as long as the attack time isn't set 
too long).

But since all percussion triggers are basically one-shots, they probably 
wouldn't be a working solution for note-on/note-off type gate signals.

I know that they make "mute" pedals for vocalists & guitarists ... it might 
be easiest just to wire up a 9v battery + resistor network to the input of 
one, and send the output to the appropriate gate input on the modular ...

         -Doug
          jasret@mindspring.com

Hi Gino,
   i could never claim that any of my solutions involved 'minimal' soldering but discarded guitar multiFX boards (by digitech,Boss, ART etc) usually have 3 or 4  robust momentary swiches on them. The advantage to these swicthes is that they snap on very fast and can stand up even to a drummers stomp 
;'>
 - Scavenge a hopelessly broken one from your local repair techs dumpster, remove the fiddly electronic bits from the inside and assimilate the switches to your own twisted schemes.
   i'd be happy to help more off-list if you decide to pursue this as a 'recycling' project
-doc


--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ginorobair" <GRobair@p...> wrote:

> Hey gang, 
> Any suggestions for an inexpensive gate pedal that would be 
> Wiard/Blacet compatible? In a recent performance, I suddenly 
> realized how much easier it would be to fire off one of my 
> patches with a pedal  situated next to my hi-hat than searching 
> for the tiny button on my Chaos module. (I was already using the 
> gate buttons on my Wiard joysticks for another patch...)
> 
> Thanks for any and all suggestions,
> g