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Tobiah Tobiah is offline
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Default Hail Mary for my sustain pedal.

On 12/27/19 4:03 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:

Switch is normally open, but notes don't sustain either way.

I'm not playing sounds through the keyboard, but going into
a sofware synth via usb MIDI out. I see the midi light in the synth
flick when I press or release the pedal, but hear no change in
the piano sounds.

I know there is not enough info to trouble shoot, just thought
I'd give it a shot.

On 12/27/2019 6:27 AM, polymod wrote:
if that were the case wouldn't all the notes be sustaining when not
pressing the pedal and the sustaining stop when pressing?


Yes, but depending on what instrument you were hearing, you might not
notice if you were focused on why nothing's changing when pressing
the pedal. That's why I said it was a long shot. But, true, there
should be a change when pressing the pedal, and Tobiah probably could
have noticed that.

Could be a hardware problem with the keyboard - a faulty or too-dirty
jack, a broken wire, or a poor solder joint.