To me, connecting the midi first or after should have no influence, midi is kind of hot plug. On another hand, some keyboards need to have the pedal connected *before* powering on the keyboard, so the polarity of the pedal is correctly recognised. You can check with a midi monitor if the pedals affects sending the "Note off" messages, instead of just listening to the sound produced by the sampler Raphaël 2014-03-14 8:52 UTC+01:00, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx>: > 14 марта 2014 г. 5:53 пользователь "Clifford Dunn" <beatleboy07@xxxxxxxxx> > написал: > >> What I do hope someone can help me with is a simple problem. When I >> plug a foot pedal into the sustain port of the keyboard, it doesn't >> add any change to the signal. The only other experience I have is >> using this keyboard with Logic, Garageband, and Main Stage. The >> sustain worked like a sustain would in these programs. I wonder if >> someone could point me towards unlocking this functionality. Google >> searches aren't too helpful with this. > > Typically the problem appears when you plug the pedal into an already > connected MIDI keyboard (because of inversed polarity). > > Try connecting the pedal first, then plug the keyboard to your PC. > > Alexandre > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user