#1

I plugged in a Quik Lok VFP 1/15 sustain pedal thinking it could work as a foot switch. It’s normally closed, I tested it on a MIDI keyboard and it works. When I plug it into either Aleph foot switch ports, attach the output to a METRO enable value and select the “show” mode on the INPUTS section, I hear no changes or see any output to the screen in play mode.

How is the foot switch input supposed to work?

#2

huh? Sounds like that should work!

you can also monitor outputs on the skektek branch. That makes debugging this kind of thing a bit quicker & less error-prone.

Just gonna try doing a ‘fake switch’ by plugging in two jack cables to the 2 switches & then touching tip of one to sleeve of the other. This could rule out any incompatibility between your sustain pedal & the hardware.

so just plug a regular 1/4" jack cable into either footswitch socket (with nothing on the other end) - as you plug it in, should bang the output of the FS1/FS2 operators respectively

#3

Huh, the 1/4" cable totally works. WTF?

And I have a little push button switch I hooked up with alligator clips and that works too. I’m gonna explain this one away as a broken sustain pedal.

#4

Maybe try measuring the impedance between tip & sleeve of the sustain pedal? Could have nonzero ‘on’ resistance or something weird?

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