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Reggie,

>Ok, what happens if you don't, just wondering, not being picky!

If you plug a Yamaha pedal into a Roland (or vice versa) the pedal will act 
very oddly:  70-80% of the pedal travel will do nothing, and the last 
20-30% will provide all of the changes.  I think it's the top 20-30% on the 
Yama --> Rol way, and the bottom 20-30% in the other case; I might have it 
backwards.  At any rate, if the pedal doesn't seem to work, or works 
strangely, it's probably a polarity issue.

>The roland keyboard doesn't have aftertouch, I don't really know exactly
>how aftertouch works, If it's on a per note basis then a foot pedal of
>any type isn't really going to help me there I think!

There are two types of aftertouch -- per key, also called "note" 
aftertouch, and per keyboard, also called "channel" aftertouch or "channel 
pressure".  The per-key method is difficult (expensive) to implement, so 
most keyboards only use channel aftertouch.  The AN1x only transmits the 
channel method.

Regards,

-BW

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