Comments on: How to add a sustain pedal to the Korg microKEY keyboard

By: Gideon

Gideon — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:21:12 +0000

With this modification on the mod wheel disable the mod wheel function of it still works.

I would like to do that modification but I don’t want to disable mod wheel.Thanks

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:54:03 +0000

Well, ok, cool! Uhm, this does render the mod wheel useless for other things though, no? Please advise!

By: Jon Kjell Seljeseth

Jon Kjell Seljeseth — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:01:30 +0000

Nice solution and description Karl. I would prefer not having to sacrifice the mod wheel though. It is a bit of a mystery how Korg managed to forget a sustain pedal input on such a playable keyboard. A nice fix on their behalf would be to offer an usb sustain pedal to hook up to one of the two “hub ports”. Perhaps just a matter of time? (… hopefully)
Finally a mini keyboard with a decent velocity response, … love it!
The wheels is a different story. I find the 90 degrees travel lenght way inferior. I am pretty sure I’ll have to put 180 deg. wheels in there.
Jon Kjell

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:30:30 +0000

About to try this tonight with the new microKEY 61 – wish me luck!

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:43:35 +0000

This is very cool! However it’s not quite what I was hoping to find. I have been using a M-Audio Kestation Mini 32, but that just broke on me the other day. I liked the Keystation mini as it had a sustain button built into it. Great for portable playing. I have a full blown digital piano at home for my real playing, but I wanted something to take with me and record on the spot if need be. Sustain is pretty important. But I am not keen on opening up my keyboard and modding it like this, as cool as it is. Plus seeing as this guy can’t even fit in my laptop bag, I’m not going to carry around a whole pedal too.

I was just wondering if anyone knew a way to add a functionality like the keystation, possibly through soft modding? – The OS. Is there an app that can trigger a fake sustain pedal? Or, I use Reason 6, perhaps there is a way to have sustain just be on in that…

Any advice is much appreciated, and again, this tutorial is really cool, just isn’t for me.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:28:48 +0000

Karl, thank you so much! Just what I needed! Modded my keys today according to your instruction – all works just fine. I put the jack on the back of the keys, not on the side – keyboard sits on a slide-out shelf which is just wide enough to accommodate the keys, with no room for connections on sides. Unfortunately, I did not manage to move USB port there yet – actually, I did install one on the back, but when I wired it in parallel to the main usb port on the board, it just didn’t work for some reason. Need to figure out how to do it. But thanks for the great manual on sustain pedal!
Alex

By: O

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:47:43 +0000

Hey there,

Followed your instructions but for some reason the wouldn’t work with the resistor i had so i took the resistor out and it works fine.

Yaaayyy!! thanks man , much appreciated

By: next9364

next9364 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:06:37 +0000

wow. also I am looking for the way “how to add the sustain fuction to microkey”
so I am amased about your way. very cooooo~~~l.

actualy to me, it’s very hard to realize.^^;
but I am excied to try your way…

good guideline. Thankyou~