I use 2 expression pedals all the time... You just cant play organ without a vollume pedal.. But i also love to assign the peddals to various midi parameters like filer cuttoffs and other effects and controll with my feet in real time.

What Fran said. I'm a big fan of bringing Strings in behind my Piano with the EV5 and my G1000. I do some other mixes too.

Thanks for the tip Fran. I used to do it with velocity but I like the pedal better since I read your post a while back

Bill in NJ

isn't that what touch sensitivity is for?

Hi

Get yourself any music score of orchestral or band music (Not Organ) and you will find expression instructions and dynamic instructions, (Touch Sensitivity) as they are not anywhere close to being the same.

Bill

*just looking for the volume pedal socket on my acoustic piano and classical guitar*

Have a listen to how real music sounds and instruments intereact, (NOT an electronic equivalent) to see why an expression pedal is so useful, this will give you a better idea of what I metioned in my previous post, better than any words.

Hope this helps

Bill

I think you misunderstood my usage of the pedal. Yes, I use the touch sensitivity for the piano sound and then use the pedal to bring the strings or whatever else into the mix. More control this way for me.


Bill in NJ

Touch sensitivity is use for the volume and charasteristics of a single note.

With a volume pedal you can controll the volume of all notes of a single performance... you can create certain effects this way, that you could never do using touch sensitivity.

All great organ performances from the past where played on non touchsensitive keyboards and to recreate those performances, you require the volume pedal for the volume controll.

Or when playing a sax, you can slowly increasy the loudless of the note you're playing with the pedal (as a real sax player could by blowing harder) while your touch sensitivity only allows you to controll the initial volume of a note.

In such way to recreate accoustic instruments, a volume pedal is an awesome tooll too.