Fater pedals?

buschmann · Post by **buschmann** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:40 pm

Hi guys,

Fatar 2- and 3-pedal units: http://www.fatar.com/pages/VFP3.htm
Any experience?

Cpilot · Post by **Cpilot** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:42 pm

I use a Kawai F-20 which I believe is made by Fatar. It is a very good pedal, very robust, consisting of a half damper for the right pedal and a simple switch for the left. The only problem is that Kawai use half dampers which are the reverse of Korg. Also has a single TRS plug so you need a cable splitter. However, these are problems that are easily fixed. Something to think about.

CEB · Post by **CEB** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:48 pm

I don't know if the half damper Kawai is reversed from the Korg or just totally different.

I have both the Kawai and Yamaha half dampers. They are incompatible with each other and Neither works with the Kronos. I wish one would because both have way better travel than the Korg pedal.

buschmann · Post by **buschmann** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:53 pm

They are single jack, as far as i can see. Does the Kronos know what to do with only one pedal input?

ErnstDabest · Post by **ErnstDabest** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:54 pm

buschmann wrote:They are single jack, as far as i can see. Does the Kronos know what to do with only one pedal input?

exactly what i was thinking,
footswitch is easy all that it does is turn the signal OFF & ON sustaining / half-damping on the other hand requires continious controller message.

Cpilot · Post by **Cpilot** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:45 pm

You can plug the Kawai pedal into the Kronos but only the half damper will work in that case. If you use a cable splitter, you can plug one into the damper jack and the other into the assignable switch jack (for use as a soft pedal etc.). To get a Kawai half damper to work on the Kronos you need to set it to reverse in the Global menu and you also need to place a 910 ohm resistor in parallel with the half damper. (1000 ohms will do). You can do this handily by soldering the resistor into the half damper plug. I covered the reason for this in earlier posts. It's rather technical but if you do a search you can get the info. I won't explain it here.