Foot controller

[audible]

I am wondering how a foot controller like the digitech Control 8 will react to a Nord Micro Modular.

Now I know that the Control 8 footswitches are not velocity sensitive, and that all they do is send a message for program change. So, I am wondering that when I hit a pad on the Control 8 that corresponds to a patch on the MicroMod, what will happpen?

Once the pad is hit, will it play the note with it's appropriate attack, relase and sustain times? Like if I just hit a key on a keyboard and kept it depressed? Will it just keep sounding the note, and I have to turn it off by tapping the foot pad again? Or will it just give a quick note when I hit the pedal?

I guess I am confused as to how the MIDI foot controller is going to act like a keyboard, if at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated I've looked at manuals and I can't find a logical answer. IF ANYONE USES THIS SETUP, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Thanks.

 

[Krakit]

My understanding is that such controllers are designed to change patches and banks and nothing else.

You program a chain into it so that you can change sounds in performance. I've never heard of anyone sending note data with this type of pedal.

If you want to do that sort of thing, you need to get something like Taurus pedals, which cost a lot of dough.

Carl