possible to put a cc foot pedal thru the contacts of a cc fader?

[diezdiazgiant]

I've got this dinky old midi controller laying around and its got one fader that seems like it would be more useful if it was a foot controller. Can anyone straighten me out on this?

[Zac Kyoti]

Sounds like a great idea. If it's not gonna break your heart, open it up and get modding!

[diezdiazgiant]

let me rephrase that question -
does anyone know a supplier that has an expression pedal with an output that can be soldered directly into the contact points a fader was once soldered on?

[Str8upDrew]

You could use a M-Audio EX-P pedal.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/EXP.html

Just hack the 1/4" tip off, and wire it up. It has a polarity switch so you can "hamster" it.

But there is a small problem, the fader uses 100% of the available movement (0-127). And the pedal only uses about 40% (around 50-85). But if you use bomes midi translator, you could fix that very easily.

[CerebralExcretion]

The cheapest/easyest way i have found to do this is to buy a cheap wha wha pedal from ebay then open it up, then replace one of the mono 1/4 inch jacks with a stereo one and wire the pot to this.

Then drill apropriate sized hole in the case of midi controller/synth and fit another 1/4 stereo jack. solder jack to appropriate points on fader with a two point switch so you can select between fader and pedal.

You can then connect the pedal with a standard 1/4 stereo jack.

I create midi pedals using said wah pedals with an arduino inside then the pedal can be connected directly to any divice via a midi cable

[diezdiazgiant]

Ah I can't thank you enough.
I'm new to modding and eventually really want to get into the deep end of customization, I should check out arduino projects

[CerebralExcretion]

Programming arduino's really isnt to difficult, ill try dig out some good tutorials for you when i get a chance. Though i can't recomend strongly enough getting a multimeter (even a cheep one just for checking voltages/resistances) and a reasonable soldering iron so you dont fry your components whill heating the solder.