activating with the midi pro

**shik4maru** · Joined: 30 Dec 2010 Posts: 198

hey guys,

Just wondered if some of you play with the midi pro and a keyboard.

I really love playing rb with my keyboard, but there is just one thing that makes me play on the rb3 keyboard :
activating with the madcatz midi pro adapter is just a PITA. That button is too tiny to activate with the foot, and activating with a finger is not really easy since you have to get the midi pro at a reachable place, and on top of that that button is not really easy to trigger compared to the rb3 keyboard

I was wondering if there could be a midi signal triggering the od event. I tried plugging my pedal on every possible place on my DX7 but none of these actually work.

As an alternative, I thought of modding the midi pro to a pedal so that I could launch overdrive, but I’m not sure about how to do this either :/

I have another keyboard there where I can reassign knobs to various functions, will try to get through them but if you guys have an idea it would be great

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**shik4maru** · Joined: 30 Dec 2010 Posts: 198

ok, couldn’t find the right signal, but I plugged the rb3 keyboard into my midi soundcard and listened to the signals sent with kmidimon

it turns out the button does not trigger a signal at all, but a pedal plugged into a midi jack acts as a standard sustain pedal, but the midi pro seems to ignore the sustain signal :/

found that http://docsrockbandmods.net/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4353

hope it helps, but I would be glad to know if there are alternatives
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**Skyp1e** · Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 132

I had to resort to surgery to make mine work. Lost it in a house fire this past Mother's Day and haven't recreated it yet.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229416&highlight=skyp1e+sustain

**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

I just clip the MPC onto my pants and hit my hip to activate. It's not the easiest for score (activation and whammy are no longer right next to each other) but it's more fun.
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