Kurzweil Artis SE - Connecting a Half Damper Pedal

Getting Started
Connecting Pedals
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If you’re not familiar with traditional piano technique, the sostenuto (center) pedal on a
grand piano allows one to hold chords in the bass while continuing to play the melody
without the latter notes sustaining. Any keys that are down when you depress the pedal will
sustain when you let go of the keys, but new notes played afterward will not be sustained.
Releasing the pedal puts things back to normal. Of course it can be programmed to do other
functions as well.
e defaults assignment for the Switch Pedals is summarized in the table below.
Pedal Single Switch Default Dual Switch Default
SW1a
Sustain (MIDI CC#64)
Sustain (MIDI CC#64)
SW1b Sostenuto (MIDI CC#66)
SW2a
Sostenuto (MIDI CC#66)
Sostenuto (MIDI CC#66)
SW2b Soft (MIDI CC#67)
Connecting a Half Damper Pedal
Half Damper pedals where the wiper is connected to the tip (such as the KORG DS-1H™)
can be connected to the SW1 and SW2 inputs on the rear panel. Some pedals have the wiper
connected to the ring, and these pedals will require an adapter to work with the Artis SE.
Half damper pedals can be used to control external software and sound modules via MIDI,
enabling ner control of sustain than a standard switch pedal.