How to set up half-pedaling

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Hey, what’s up guys!

I recently switched from a Yamaha FC4A to a Yamaha FC3A because I wanted to use half-pedaling. After figuring out that the FC3A was sending Cubase CC 65 - which is why it didn’t sustain at all - and reassigning it to CC 64 - I am back to square one: It sustains (like the FC4A did), but it only functions as an on/off-switch, zero half-pedaling.

How can I change this to get that smooth, piano-like pedaling?

Any ideas would be highly appreciated!

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Hi and welcome to the forum,

Cubase receives and sends all 127 values. It’s on the hardware, if it can sends all 127 values, or of it’s just a switcher. And then it’s on the instrument, if it can reproduce it.

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Hi! Thanks for your quick reply!
Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand.
Do you mean it depends on my pedal whether it works?
Well, officially the Yamaha FC3 does support half-pedaling, but I haven’t been able to make it work in Cubase.

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But where is the pedal connected to?

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It’s connected to my keyboard (Native Instruments Kontrol S88 MK3) through the “Sustain” jack.

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Did you revisit the settings for the pedals on the S88? (Continuous, CC64 for both tip and ring?)

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Hi,

This also might be the issue. Some “Sustain” connectors are receiving just On/Off values (switcher).

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This is likely the case. It appears that there are quite a few keyboards out there which do not translate the full 0-127 range for sustain pedal.
I get around this by connecting the sustain pedal (the same model as the OP’s) to the expression jack on my keyboard and reassigning it to CC64. This gives me the full range of sustain pedalling.

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Yes, but the S88 supports continuous pedals in every position, all 4 of them.

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Understood. If that’s the case then it would appear to be an operator-related problem.

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Guys, I found the solution.
I found out you can select which midi number you want the pedal to send in the Kontrol S88 menu.
The only problem now is that while I am getting CC 64s, their values are inverted. The polarity is messed up and Native Instrument’s “invert” function doesn’t seem to work.
Any ideas on how to fix that?

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Hi,

You can find the reply in your other thread.