External Connector in Genos for 15 Foot Pedals to Control Assgn. Knobs/Sliders

[jemsoo7]

Genos is beyond my budget right now but just for info! Can we 'hack' Genos to have say 15 external mini jack connectors to control the sliders/knobs with foot pedals OR directly from internal board if available (void warranty?).

I am Still looking for a second hand S670 in my little country so it could 'try' to 'connect' 6 foot controllers for Pitch,Mod(+),2 live (10kPots) and two 50kLogPots (diy on net) to 2 Pedals ports.

Anybody having tried any such kind of 'hack'... on Yamaha Keyboard?

Foot Pedal Boards (say to control s.art) and Foot Controllers are extremely! costly to import. I would think that for e.g Balance R1/R2 - say ElectricGuitar/Harmonics with foot pedal  would be easier than LiveKnob.

Side question as a temporary measure:
Reading the manual i see that s670 don't have chord loop BUT I find that sync start a MIDI song containing only a chord track could possibly act like a chord looper? I could have a folders of songs as chord progression....Would that work? (so that i have hands free to use live knobs/Mod wheel say to play with ease a melody Picolo trill on R1/R2 Picollo? as i saw on a PSR3000 tutorial youtube)

Thanks! Kindly Jean-Paul.

[svpworld]

I don't think you would need to hack the keyboard, most of those parameters are controllable via MIDI. So you could either use or build a midi controller that is assignable or can be assigned to parameters you wish to control. I have an Arturia Keylab Mk2 which I use to control my Genos via my DAW. The Genos has a number of features that can be triggered by pedals or external midi messages. Not sure about all of the mixer features on the Genos, I haven't examined the midi message requirements for those but I would expect they are able to be externally controlled - either via CC messages or Sy***. Unfortunately my Keylab Mk2 doesn't send out sy*** but it wouldn't be impossible to build something with a microcontroller or source a suitable controller that could do that. Not sure though why you want to do that, as the Genos controls are really nice to use - the OLED display also helps see what they are controlling along with the bank controls. You can definitely control the style parts and accompaniment via a midi controller though, and my midi controller has 5 pedal inputs (not that I would ever remember in a performance what my feet had to do on 5 separate pedals!)

Simon

[kharri]

You might want to take a look at a "Midi Solutions Event Processor Plus", if your MIDI controller can't send all the messages.