I have been customizing my rig in anticipation of XITE-1 by changing my hardware around to suit my needs as a keyboardist, instead of the FOH/Monitor/Keyboardist/Musical Director I have done for the last year.
Many of my pedals and controller knobs were set up for live mixing, so I have reprogrammed many of my pedals and just came up w/ a stroke of genius for once by stacking my pedals.
Yes, it sounds insane, but this could be useful for synths also, not just the B2003/CC8 combo I currently use.
Below shows a stack of a Toggle Footswitch and an Expression Pedal.
Since I cannot sit and play as it is against my Religion I have had to do work arounds but this stack works fine.
With the weight of the Footswitch on top of the Expression pedal, I have set my B2003 to a default position which consists of the default drawbar set-up I like, and the Horn Rotor position on slow. This also has 2 knobs that I can twist to bring in the Scanner Vibrato or Percussion.
In it's default position I can also just step on the Footswitch to change the Rotary speed, but the real beauty comes when I bring the Expression Pedal towards me.
It then has the fast Rotor speed and Drawbar swells simultaneously, and I can still play the upper and the lower manuals with both hands, as that one handed playing is really a major sin in my book.
Because Medhi has allowed Linear and Exponential Curves w/ offset amounts, I can have the drawbars go exactly where I need, and by bringing the Expression Pedal towards me, it will naturally go back to it's default setting as soon as I release it.
And because Medhi has also incorporated a lag time amount, I can adjust that setting also.
This is not possible with the Hammonds, NI B4, Logic EVB3, Voce, Roland or any other instrument available.
These other developers might have a nice sound, and I know the Hammonds DEFINATELY do, but for live performance, they come to the battlefield unarmed.
This combination can be used under a desktop with any Creamware synth to swell filters while kicking up the resonance, etc. Just because it's a pedal and a footswitch doesn't mean you have to have it control the same virtual faders or knobs either. Clip your BPM'd Delay tails, etc. The possibilities only depend on your imagination. And because CC8 is an 8 fader device, moving a pedal or toggling a pedal footswitch means 1-8 controls can be activated / deactivated.
Maybe in 3 more years I will have mastered this incredible platform.....
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