2 Tritons, one pedal

yamaha135 · Post by **yamaha135** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:05 pm

I know this is the simplest question in the world, but I can't get it for the life of me, as are a lot of things I post about.

My TEX comes Thursday. I use a Yamaha FC-7 for my volume pedal and of course a DS1H for my damper. My question is, what do my midi settings need to be on both my Tritons so that I can use my damper and volume pedal from one keyboard to control the other WITHOUT controlling anything else like program changes, etc.

Thanks!!!!

kanthos · Post by **kanthos** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:21 pm

Your Master Triton (the one the pedals are connected to) would have to have a different global channel from the slave Triton (the other one), otherwise everything would be transmitted from one to the other. On the master, you'll also need to always be in combi or sequencer mode. I'm only familiar with combi mode, in which you'll want a timbre of type EXT with the channel set to the global channel of your slave triton. Edit the MIDI settings for that timbre so that the only MIDI events the timbre processes are for your pedals. I haven't tried this myself (in my setup, the pedals are plugged into my Nord, not my TR), but I'd imagine it'd work that if a timbre isn't receiving certain MIDI events, it wouldn't transmit them either. You'll also want to set that timbre to have a key zone from G9-G9 (or something else obviously out of normal playing range) so that playing your master triton doesn't make sound on both.

yamaha135 · Post by **yamaha135** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:22 pm

Thats the thing... I dont want to have to edit all 1500 patches' midi filters to do this.

kanthos · Post by **kanthos** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:20 pm

Well, there's no other way, at least for your sustain pedal. You could buy a small mixer or an actual volume pedal with two audio inputs (as opposed to an expression pedal), and adjust overall output volume instead of MIDI volume, but for sustain, there's no other way.

Think about what you're asking: you want to send certain MIDI messages on two MIDI channels without doing anything to set up the second channel somehow. I don't know of any keyboard that supports this at a global level; even my Nord, which is better than the Triton line in this respect, will let me filter out pedal events or other controller events to be sent to external devices, but I still have to enable the external section and un-map it from the keyboard for each patch. Maybe there are some keyboards out there that explicitly support easy broadcasting of pedal messages on multiple/all channels as a global setting, but the Triton isn't that keyboard.