[B]Knee operated MIDI pitch bend[/B]

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I play keys and have gotten into a style more associated with guitar - I have been into Leslie West (of Mountain). Every time I reached for the pitch bend wheel on my synth my left hand had to stop playing so the bottom dropped out.

I ended up making this setup with a card from Doepfer:

http://musicmusicmusic.cn/wheelelectronicp.html

The idea came from watching steel players.

There's provisions for 3 more inputs so I might add a panic button, and pedals to control CC #071 and CC #074, resonance and cutoff frequency.

I got it hooked up so that when I play normally the pitch bend is 3 frets in either direction, and with MidiPipe, when I hold down the sustain pedal, the pitch bend goes to 2 octaves either way (!) which is Floyd Rose on steroids.
It was a fun project but I keep busting those crap R.S. pots...
 
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