Small/single MIDI usb footswitch

[Jakester]

Has anyone come across a cheap MIDI USB footswitch that has only one or two switches?

 

Basically I would like our singer to trigger a vocal effect on a tune. The mixer can do it, but only supports MIDI via USB. It can learn the commands which can then be used to switch the effect on and off, so the actual commands sent aren’t really an issue. 
 

I’d ideally like it to be a single switch so as not to cause too much confusion for our singer. 
 

Disaster Area does the MIDI Baby but that needs their USB Host too - not a big issue, but just an added point of potential failure at a gig. Plus it’s £££. 
 

This chap appears to sell custom pedals and is around the right price, but it’s a bit of a punt on the unknown!

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225596406007?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true

 

Any other suggestions?

[BigRedX]

Have a look at see if any of the the suggestions in this thread will do what you want.

[Jakester]

I did see that before, but whilst there are options that would work, they're all pretty expensive or over-featured. 

 

I may take a punt on that eBay one. 

[BigRedX]

What is the mixer?

 

If it has a USB-A socket then it should work as a host device. If it doesn't act as a USB host device you will have the same problem with your eBay footswitch.

[Jakester]

QSC Touchmix 16. It's a USB-A socket.

[BigRedX]

Personally I'd start by getting that eBay footswitch. If it doesn't work as advertised you should be able to return it.

 

If you need to trouble-shoot it, make sure you have some sort of MIDI monitor on your computer so you can see what messages it is sending out.

 

One thing to consider does the effect on/off toggle with the same MIDI message or do you need two different ones for on and off? (In which case you may need two footswitches.)

[Jakester]

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

One thing to consider does the effect on/off toggle with the same MIDI message or do you need two different ones for on and off? (In which case you may need two footswitches.)

 

Yep, that's the one thing I need to work out - I may give it a go using a USB MIDI keyboard to see what happens first.

[SamIAm]

More buttons than you ask for but this unit is quite good, rechargeable and wireless to boot and low cost.