[HAM] Midi Bass Pedals for the B3

[Kip Amore]

Leo,
Lots of different ways to do it, few of them easy.

1. Buy brand new hammond pedals. Roland (I think) still makes a 17  
note non-radiating midi pedalboard. List member Steve Hayes also  
makes a very nice set. All of the above are fairly expensive.

2. Make your own. The organ has 2 switches already in it, one could  
be used to trigger the midi note. I had a custom switch-to-midi board  
made for me by a guy in Romania for not much jack (around $150, but  
this was several years ago). It was for my midi Farfisa project which  
sits on the shelf unfinished. There are a couple other companies on  
the web who make similar board, most used for converting pipe organs  
to midi. Another guy I highly recommend is a dude named Dr Freak who  
sells midi pedalboard on ebay. He made a board about 7 years ago,  
just a hacked up Fatar board from some dippy keyboard. I used this in  
my midi Hammond pedal getup which I made myself by attaching leaf  
switches to the Hammond assembly. You can get a dippy USB keyboard  
for $80, and go the same route.

Those are about your only options. Somebody, somewhere, probably  
makes a pitch to midi converter that would do the job. Detach one of  
the brown wires from the back of the pedal drawbar, and that's your  
signal.

Kip


On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:33 AM, Leo Bynum wrote:

>
>
> Sorry for the broadcast. I haven't been able to find any info in the
> archives.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions or leads for putting a MIDI-out for B3/ 
> C3 bass
> pedals?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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