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MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller Programmable MIDI Interface

Footswitch to MIDI Trigger Converter with MIDI Throughput
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MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller Programmable MIDI Interface
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Turn Any Footswitch into a MIDI Trigger!

Get totally creative with a MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller from Sweetwater. The MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller is a super-versatile yet brain-dead simple tool you can use to trigger real-time MIDI events with a simple footswitch or other closed connection. Programming your Footswitch Controller takes minutes, and you can use it to send all kinds of information. Once you've programmed it, just plug in your footswitch (no need to worry about its polarity) and run the Footswitch Controller to your gear. No fancy configuration, no headaches, no hassles - the MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller just plain works.

MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller MIDI Trigger at a Glance:
  • An easy-to-use standalone MIDI footswitch controller
  • One simple MIDI trigger box, countless possibilities
  • Get all of your MIDI Solutions gadgets from Sweetwater!
An easy-to-use standalone MIDI footswitch controller

You don't have to be a MIDI guru to get a ton of use out of a MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller. Here's how it works. Using a MIDI Solutions easy-to-use software, you program the Footswitch Controller to send MIDI note, control change, pitch bend, program change, and just about any other MIDI data you choose - even sys ex and other advanced messages. Talk about a flexible MIDI trigger!

One simple MIDI trigger box, countless possibilities

From simple patch changes to off-the-hook performance applications, there's really no limit to what you can do with your MIIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller. For instance, you can use it to switch channels on a MIDI-controllable guitar amplifier, or trigger an effects setting in your keyboard rig. But you can also hook your Footswitch Controller up to something that isn't a footswitch, such as a hidden tread plate onstage, an use it to change your lighting rig when a performer steps on it. See? There's a ton you can do with this handy little box.

Get all of your MIDI Solutions gadgets from Sweetwater!

Since 1992, MIDI Solutions has been offering creative musicians like you the MIDI tools they need to make the most of their music gear. Ask any seasoned keyboard or high-level guitar tech, and they'll tell your that MIDI Solutions modules are the lynch pins of the live performance world. You just wouldn't believe how many complex MIDI rigs are currently being held together by simple, effective, and road-tested MIDI Solutions boxes. When you need highly flexible yet delightfully affordable MIDI routing tools, you can trust the MIDI Solutions gear you'll find at Sweetwater.

MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller MIDI Trigger Features:
  • The perfect way to add a footswitch or any other closed connection trigger to your MIDI gear
  • Sends your choice of note, control change, pitch bend, program change, sys ex, or other common MIDI data
  • Can also be configured to send rechannelize, transpose, tap tempo, note-on filter, or incremental program change (inc/dec) messages
  • MIDI input for programming (via a system exclusive MIDI-based editor application) and throughput
  • MIDI-powered operation means you don't have to fuss with batteries or power supplies
  • Can also run on external power supply
  • MIDI indicator LED provides visual feedback of data throughput
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Tech Specs

  • Type: MIDI Footswitch Controller
  • Ports: 1 x 1
  • MIDI I/O: In/Out
  • Inputs: 1 x 1/4" (footswitch trigger)
  • Power: Powered via MIDI input (5V MIDI devices)
  • Height: 1.2"
  • Width: 4.4"
  • Depth: 2.4"
  • Weight: 4.1 oz.
  • Manufacturer Part Number: Footswitch Controller

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Reviews

The next level in a dedicated MIDI controller.
I use this controller for what I'm thinking is its most popular use: using a damper pedal at the top of the MIDI chain so the damper pedal controls all keyboards. This works well for me when changing to different keyboards to play different sounds during a song's performance. I used to carry a 25 key controller just to get that once capability. Now this little box attaches with Velcro to my spider stand. For its MIDI power, I have a 1 foot MIDI cable that plugs into the out or thru of my top keyboard. Since I place it at the top of the MIDI chain, one of the program options is to turn MIDI echo off.

But that's just scratching the surface. It is fully programmable. You can program this for MIDI notes, MIDI program changes, or any MIDI signal imaginable. The program software for it is available free on their website if you want to install it and look at its program options.

When I programmed it, their software generated two commands for me. One was to turn echo off and the other was for the damper on/off command. So I just take those two commands at once and send to the controller - and it's PERFECT.

Word to the wise. Before I bought this because it does cost about what a small keyboard controller costs, I found a USB pedal controller on the web. All that does is plug into a portable arranger that doesn't have a pedal port. That was a waste for what I needed. What you need is this MIDI Solutions Footswitch Controller.

They make quite a few unique products. After understanding their software to program this, which you can download and experiment with for free without a device, I want to get the expression pedal controller and internally limit its range so I can make modest volume changes instead of full range from quiet to full.

This is an exceptional piece of equipment!
Music background: Gigging musician
So much more than a footswitch!
This product, and the technical support team from MIDI Solutions, are incredible. Using the PC application that comes with this along with a USB MIDI PC input you need to get separately (I used FORE MIDI to USB Interface MIDI Cable Adapter), its possible to program lots of cool logic to alter MIDI commands using the footswitch as a control input.

For example, I have a M-Audio Hammer88 MIDI controller keyboard. The keyboard is awesome except for one thing - the only way to change the MIDI channel is via PC software. This is a pain in the neck if you want to quickly switch between different downstream synthesizers quickly.

After talking to MIDI Solutions tech support I learned of command F0 00 00 50 04 09 10 7F F7 which allows the re-channeling of the MIDI channel. For instance, if you depress the footswitch, specify a key from middle C and up to 16 keys up from middle C, then release the footswitch, the outbound MIDI commands will all be modified to the MIDI channel corresponding to the key you pressed. So, middle C is MIDI channel 1, C# is MIDI channel 2, and so on. If you depress and then un-depress the footswitch without hitting any key, then it defaults back to letting all MIDI commands go through without any re-channeling. It's great this device is so flexible like this! This is a cool product from MIDI Solutions and really happy there are people out there working on capabilities like this!
Pro Tools Footswitch
This works great for ProTools and allows you to trigger a midi note that starts recording with a keyboard foot switch/ damper pedal
Midi solution demo /no more
Brought this mini controller solution never could get the program to program it to recognize it bad investment I'm out of a good bit of $ trying to go the route of a demo. Don't think I would be buying any more demo products without knowing more about the product. At first I thought it was me, but after a lot of researching computer, switching by another part to work with found out that it was the controller itself defective no wonder it was a demo do not know how long it was on the shelf as a demo, but I think it had reached this end of lifespan. I would like to say that I have been trying to get this foot switched to Work for almost 4 months now no success.
All of the review that I have seen on line I think it's a good product. I just think that I may have got a hold of a bad one.
Music background: Part time music maker play music for for a very long time