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[mintjamman]

Ok I Have been using a damper pedal on my Pa4x fine up until now, but what I am trying to do now is causing me some head scratching ?

Lets say that I want to use the Pa4x without the arranger functions and use it as a straight keyboard. In this scenario I want to use a Piano in the Right Hand and another Piano in the left hand but this sound transposed up and octave for playing chords. Now the Right Hand is using the Global Damper settings and the damper of the Right Hand Functions as one would expect. On the left hand the Damper is also working but when the Damper is not depressed the Left Hand Piano has a sustain to it which makes it unusable ?

Can this be achieved on the Pa4x ?

I know that you can use the Pa4x as a straightforward keyboard with Piano and other sounds layered but in certain situations I need it to work as above.

Additionally if you need a stripped back arrangement using the Pa4xs drums and bass to create a Trio sound and dont want the arranger providing the left hand Piano Part again I would prefer to be able to have two Piano Sounds or the Same Piano Sounds split on the keyboard but with Damper control over each.
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[duby2]

1 Be in style play mode,
2 press menu ( not Global )
3 Go to style menu
4 now pick keyboard & ensemble
5 done
now
you pick keyboard control you see you put a checkbox in the lower ( it is empty now )and sustained..
now the damper pedal will work on both sides of your split or I could send you the performance how I have it set up but that's all there is..

[mintjamman]

Thanks for your help, I followed this procedure and still the LH Piano voice sustains by itself. When you check the lower box you do then have control of normal sustain and damper resonace but with the damper pedal not pressed the left hand piano voice has a sustain to it ? Very odd
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[duby2]

check your damper pedal ,see if it has switch polarity reverse , some pedal can be (+) or (-) if you have two deferent pedal and i will check again my set up .

[mintjamman]

I am using a Yamaha Damper pedal FC7 and this didnt work at first until I went through the Pa4x Calibration setup after which it works as expected on the RH sounds or in Sound Mode. I have another damper pedal which does have a polarity switch and will try that out.
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[mintjamman]

Just hooked another damper pedal and the result is the same, could this be a bug ?
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[Jonyblues]

[Paolo@Korg]

Mintjamman,

I wonder if you have the Lower Memory or the Bass & Lower Backing functions activated.

The Bass & Lower Backing status is shown in the Lower Sound area. You can turn it off by keeping the SHIFT button pressed and pressing the STYLE PLAY button to open the Style preference page, and deselecting the corresponding option.

In the same page you can program the Memory Mode.

Paolo

[siebenhirter]

[mintjamman]

Guys, thanks for this information I will work my way through each solution and see how it pans out. I knew I would not be the only one who would need this facility. I work with bass players and in that setting I want the Pa4x to operate as a straight keyboard although I guess that's not the intention of an arranger and while I have this task covered by other equipment I want to get to a point where I can use the Pa4x as a main instrument in certain settings hence why I am trying to get this working like this.

I will report back
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[mintjamman]

Success ! Ok here's the upshot of the earlier problem I had, Firstly Paolo I rechecked and did not have the settings set as you thought might be the problem, Tried your solution Jonyblues and that did not cure the sustain issue unfortunately but thanks for your useful input.

siebenhirter's solution works a treat and I now have things set as I need the trade off being that you loose a upper RH voice so can only layer two sounds at a time, that said I can work around that with external midi should I need.

This Pa4x is starting to cook, love it

Thanks siebenhirter

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