Sustain pedal: YES on piano sound, NO on Organ sounds

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Sustain pedal: YES on piano sound, NO on Organ sounds

Hi,

I'd like my foot pedal to be just a regular old sustain pedal 🙂 Works fine on piano, synth, strings etc but NOT on any organ sounds (Jazz Organ, Blues Organ etc) where it seems to do nothing when pressed

Anyone know why?

Thanks in advance

MacBook Pro 4.1, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Sep 9, 2008 9:50 AM

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Answer 1

Blueberry

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Sep 9, 2008 8:12 PM in response to edwincoutts

You could have answer the question yourself by using search... The organ listens to 3 MIDI channels, you have to send on these channels.

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Pancenter

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Sep 9, 2008 10:22 PM in response to edwincoutts

It's mimicking a real B3.

An organ only plays notes as long as the keys are pressed, there is no sustain pedal on a Hammond.

pancenter-

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Answer 3

H-BOMB!!!

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Oct 18, 2008 11:52 AM in response to edwincoutts

I haven't tried it in Mainstage/Logic yet, but I think on GarageBand holding the sustain pedal down will spin the rotary speaker faster.

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CCTM

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Oct 19, 2008 2:02 AM in response to Pancenter

Hi

By default, The EVB3 uses the sustain pedal to control the rotating speaker speed.

If you change the speed control (bottom right hand side of the plugin GUI) to some other MIDI CC number the sustain pedal works as expected (though not as per a real B3!).

HTH

CCT

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Answer 5

Dec 12, 2008 12:45 PM in response to Blueberry

I've been using the search and have been unable to sustain my EVB3. What are you searching that helps me figure it out?

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Answer 6

Dec 12, 2008 12:52 PM in response to CCTM

I tried doing what you asked without much more luck. Anyone else have a solid workaround for dodos?

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Answer 7

Dec 30, 2008 6:07 PM in response to TacklingDummy

To repeat somewhat...
The problem is that real organs do not have sustain pedals. So, some Organ plugins do not sustain the sound when CC64 (sustain pedal) is received.

One easy workaround is to not use those plugins. If you open an organ sample in a standard sample player plugin, most likely it will recognize CC64, and sustain the sound as you want it to, without any need for CC # modification. Easy.

Having said that, I would never want the sustain pedal to sustain my organs. I make the sustain pedal select the speed of the Leslie effect. (fast/slow)
Usually, most organ programs assign the Mod Wheel (CC1) to that. So, if you swap CC64 to CC1, the sustain pedal will control the speed of the Leslie.
Or, you can use other CC numbers. For example, CC65 turns on Portamento. (acts like a mono lead-synth if your keyboard supports that).

More important, you might want to swap CC7 (volume) to CC11 (expression). So your expression pedal actually controls expression (swell), not volume.
(Some keyboards might send expression pedal as CC11 correctly. My Studiologic controllers do not. They send CC7.)

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