From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019031210402610734-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Back in the 70's when I only played guitar with the band of that time,   
   > little stomp box guitar effects were the rage.  I never put mine on the   
   > floor even back then. I made a " pedal board " thing that held them, and   
   > set that on top of my amp.  If I need this or that turned on, I'd reach   
   > back and turn it on. Oh, and I took the stomp style switches out and   
   > replaced them with nice Radio Shack toggle switches. Much easier on the   
   > hand to flip. :-)   
      
   That's the problem with the 'stomp' part - it only turns them on and off,   
   and while being on the floor, all the other controls are inaccessible, so   
   naturally, they end up getting placed where they can be handled too. Maybe   
   an external foot switch to turn then on and off would be the answer. A long   
   time ago some genius invented a foot switch-actuated knob twiddler. It used   
   a mechanical speedometer cable driven by a gear setup on the pedal and   
   attached to a knob on an effect. Only  problem was that it could only turn   
   the single knob it was attached to at any one time ;)   
      
   > Yes. The one expression pedal is set up to be a volume control for all my   
   > instruments.  And while that seems an obvious and easy thing to do, it   
   > isn't.  What I may do at some point to simplify this is to set up an old   
   > style, actual volume pedal in one of the aux sends of the mixer and route   
   > all my instruments thru that aux then back into the board. I'd need a   
   > stereo volume pedal tho, and that means more cables. So for now the   
   > expression pedal into LOGIC works.   
      
   So much for simplifying things.   
      
   > On my setup, and midi in general,  expression is just a second level   
   > volume control.  Although I'm using an expression pedal, it's mapped in   
   > LOGIC to actually move the volume faders on my instrument channels.  That   
   > may change with the new keyboard, depending on what options that presents.   
   > It's all about less physical gear and easiest to operate ... whatever that   
   > brings.   
      
   I thought the user gets to decide how things are mapped....I know, most of   
   the time but not all the time.   
      
   > Sorry to hear that.  Maybe some hot tea ?  Luckily I didn't get sick this   
   > winter .... opps .. better knock on wood :-)   
      
   I got the flu, then when just getting over that, caught a cold, then went   
   out in that horrible sub zero weather, kind of like three strikes, and I was   
   out.   
      
   > Band girl is on her way here. I better pick up the mess a little.  We have   
   > a new square dance tune to add. Don't need it until next week, but we have   
   > time now to work on it, so like they say, make hay while the sun shines.   
      
   The sun is shining over now and so I thought I'd get at the piano, but it's   
   still too cold so it's hard to get into the mood to write some new songs. I   
   wonder if this Miserable cold will ever end!   
      
   > tic toc .... waiting on the fed ex delivery truck to bring my new keyboard   
   > .... .   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Hopefully it'll come today.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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