USING EXPRESSION PEDALS & FOOTSWITCHES
Foot pedals & Footswitches should always be connected to the jack marked “Input 2 ( pedal )”. To configure the jack socket for use
with an expression pedal, you should set the “Pedal mode” parameter on page 9 of the Global menu to either “Breath-R” or
“Breath-T”.To configure the jack socket for use with a Footswitch, you should set the “Pedal mode” parameter on page 9 of the
Global menu to either “Sustain” or “Sustain-I”.
Page 10 looks like so:
The reason why this parameter is set to one of the “Breath” positions is because you will use the Breath control re-mapping func-
tion to assign what parameter the Foot pedal is going to modulate. Use “Breath-R” for expression pedals which have the control
output on the ring of the pedal jack. Use “Breath-T” for expression pedals which have the control output on the tip of the pedal jack
( for example a Korg EXP2 pedal ). If you are not sure which type of expression pedal you have, try the “Breath-R” option first. If
the pedal then seems to behave in the opposite manner to what you would expect, then come back to this menu & change the
parameter to “Breath-T” instead. Similarly there are 2 types of Footswitches available. These are the “normally open” & “normally
closed” types. In the Sustain position Input 2 is configured to work as a sustain pedal input. In this case a sustain pedal that is nor-
mally open. In the Sustain-I position Input 2 is configured to work as a sustain pedal input. In this case a sustain pedal that is nor-
mally closed. Go to page 4 of the Global menu & the display shows:
Page 4 looks like so:
The Breath control determines if the Nova re-maps incoming Breath Control MIDI data & Pedal data ( if the “Pedal mode parame-
ter above is set to a “Breath” option ) into Mod wheel data ( CC no 1 ), Aftertouch data or any controller from 3 to 119, Pitchbend
data & a selected number of NRPN’s. This allows incoming Breath Control data to manipulate most of Nova’s key parameters
directly.
Remember to save your Global parameters if you wish the Nova to remember the expression pedal setting after it has been turned
off.
If the input 2 ( pedal ) is assigned to be a pedal ( that is the Pedal mode parameter is set to anything other than Off ), then the
input 2 ( pedal ) cannot be used as an input, only as an expression pedal input.
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