Hi,
this is my first post in this forum, and I’d like to share with you my workaround to implement a pedal sustain in the AK/A4.
You will need a pedal sustain plugged in an external midi keyboard.
The sustain in every MIDI environment send signal to the CC 64.
The CC 64 in AK/A4 is used by the performance knob F.
All you have to do is to configure the F Performance Knob with the release of the Amp envelope, giving it a +127 depth ad assigning it to the track you will use for the sustained sound.
Now if you connect AK/A4 with the external keyboard via MIDI or USB the sustain pedal will do the job! Excellent!
I know that this is not a perfect solution because you will need a second gear to obtain this trick, but I read some people complaining about the lack of pedal jacks in these awesome gear and if you necessarily have to use a sustain pedal to play some polyphonic organ/piano style patch this is actually the only way to achieve this goal…
I hope somebody will find a simplier way.
thanks for that tip. The A4 is ordered. This was the last contra i’ve got till i read another tread about this problem. The performance modulation for Sustain is enough for my needs.
Hi, so the Analog Four mkII doesn’t currently respond to CC64 messages from an external Midi keyboard? I was hoping that the Analog Four mkII would work like the Digitone in the sense that it interprets CC64 messages as delayed note-off messages (incl. recording the delayed note-off message to the sequencer when live recording).
Would this work with using the DoreMIDI expression pedal converter?
As you mentioned the following would have to configured on the A4/AK… F Performance Knob with the release of the Amp envelopegiving it a +127 depth ad assigning it to the track you will use for the sustained sound and adjust the DoreMIDI to send messages to CC64.
