Hi,

How many of you guys are using a "four pedal foot controller", "foot switch 1" and/or "foot switch 2" with your KN keyboards?

I know I have asked this question before, but in addition to trying to stimulate forum conversation, I am really interested to hear how others of you out there assign and use your foot controller pedals.

After much trial and deliberation, I set my foot controllers assignments for my KN5000 as follows:

Foot Switch 1: Sustain
Foot Switch 2: Panel Memory Increment
Foot Controller 1: Fill-in 1
Foot Controller 2: Fill-in 2
Foot Controller 3: Intro/Ending 1 or 2
Foot Controller 4: Sustain

The reason I have "sustain" assigned to both "Foot Switch 1" and "Foot Controller 4" is because when I take my keyboard out for gigging I don't have to take a separate sustain pedal as it is incorporated in the 4-pedal foot controller board.

I only use "panel memory increment" because I design all my songs so each section of a song is stored incrementally in suceeding panel memories. This incremental ONLY panel memory approach avoids confusion during performance. I assigned this "panel memory increment" function to "Foot Switch 2" and have this pedal positioned to the left of the 4 pedal controller board as to avoid pressing it unintentionally.

The fill-in assignments to Foot Controller 1 & 2 are great for adding spontaneous fills which add drummer realism to the song.

Finally, the Intro/Ending assigment to Foot Controller 3 makes triggering the ending of the tune really easy. This way you can pre-assign your favorite ending and not have to worry about remembering if your favorite for your ending for your tune is Ending 1 or Ending 2.

I assign MOST ALL my songs to the SAME foot controller assignments to maintain consistency which avoids confusion.

I am currently experiencing some annoying problems as my pedals tend to slip around the floor when playing. Anyone else experience this? What are your solutions? As a temporary solution, I have had to tape the pedals to the floor using double-stick carpet tape. I am currently working on a better solution, building a pedal holder from a 1/4" thick sheet of plywood which the pedals can sit on with a raised lip at the front, back & sides which will keep the pedals in place. The plywood piece will sit on the floor and be anchored to the keyboard stand via a couple of blocks of wood, which should keep the plywood from moving away. I'll let you know how it works after it's completed. I'm really interested in hearing other solutions to this problem.

I look forward to hearing from other Technics Keyboard Players who are using the foot pedal controllersand how you are utilizing the KN keyboard's cutomizable foot controller pedal assigments.


- Scott