Hi Sunny,
It is not that easy to technically realize your wish to control the Style volume and the Right Voice volume on the Genos via two separate PEDALS.
I had already written that I only control the RIGHT parts with the FC7 pedal. I can only agree with Lee's last post: If you have made the basic adjustments in your Registrations in advance (suitable volume for Style, Multi Pad, MIDI / Audio Song and the Right Voices a little louder than required so that you still have some reserve with the FC7), In my opinion, you don't need an extra pedal for the Style volume. If necessary, you can easily readjust the Master volume and adjust the Right volumes again with the FC7.
1) A relatively simple solution for you would be to insert a
stereo volume pedal between the Audio outputs (L/R) and the external mixer / sound system, e.g. something like this:
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https://www.thomann.de/gb/korg_xvp_20.htmWith this you can then easily control the
overall volume, and with the FC7 you can additionally control the Right parts. I myself have played in the manner described for many years when I have performed solo. With my
right foot I operated the volume pedal for the
overall volume and with my
left foot I operated the FC7 for the
Right parts. At some point the effort became too much for me, so I left out the pedal for the overall volume. I still control the volume of the Right parts, i.e. the FC7, with my
left foot.
2) Another option would be to
route all Style parts to two SUB Outputs and insert a stereo volume pedal into the Audio cables to the external mixer. However, this has the disadvantage that the Style sound changes because
only INSERT effects are output at the SUB Outs, but not the SYSTEM effects (Chorus & Reverb effect blocks, and the Variation effect block if set to "System").
3) Controlling the entire STYLE volume externally via MIDI is, as already mentioned, relatively difficult, because, as far as I know, the parameter "
Volume(Style) Offset" cannot be controlled via Continuous Controller (CC) messages on only ONE single MIDI channel. This is also not possible under "MIDI > External Controller". There you can work with up to five different controller numbers (CC#7, 1, 2, 3, 4), each of which is used to send internal Volume (= CC#7) or Expression (= CC#11) commands, but you can only control one (of the 8) Style parts with one CC number.
There are "Expression Pedal to MIDI"
converter boxes that you can connect an FC7 pedal to, e.g. something like this:
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https://www.thomann.de/gb/midi_solutions_pedal_to_midi_converter.htm or
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https://www.audiofront.net/MIDIExpression.phpAttention: only the MIDI Expression "iO" (which has 4 pedal inputs) has a DIN MIDI output!
In addition, there are of course independent
MIDI Expression Pedals, e.g .:
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https://beatbars.com/en/midi-expression-pedal.htmlBUT: None of these devices can obviously send identical controller messages on 8 different MIDI channels at the same time.
You COULD now switch another device in between, e.g. a
MIDI Event Processor ...
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https://www.thomann.de/gb/midi_solutions_event_processor.htm... or an
iPhone/iPad (with a corresponding
MIDI interface) on which a corresponding
MIDI routing app is running. But in my opinion, all of this is far too complicated and not necessary.
4) I would like to briefly describe one last option: You can select the "Expression" function for CC#7 in "MIDI > External Controller" on the Genos and set the Part to "Keyboard". On the set MIDI Port (e.g. MIDI
B) and MIDI channel (e.g. Ch
1) you can then control the volume of all Keyboard parts simultaneously with incoming CC#7 messages. However, the
Right parts AND also the
Left part are probably affected here.
As a pedal for this option you could use an FC7 in connection with a "Pedal to MIDI" converter box, or an independent MIDI expression pedal (as mentioned above), or e.g. a Behringer FCB1010. You could then set the FC7, which is directly connected to the Genos, so that only the STYLE volume is controlled.
I recommend that you first test the solution
1) I described at the beginning of this post (overall volume via a stereo volume pedal plus Right parts controlled via an FC7).
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Chris
