Korg PS-2 footswitch compatible with Korg N364...?

[Mental Floss]

Cos I've been playing in a band for some months, I decided I needed a double footswitch. At the music store, they advised me the Korg PS-2.

http://w-notes.com/photo/PS-2.jpg

When I purchased this switch, it didn't come with a cable, and the salesman said I just needed a normal audio stereo/mono cable, so I bought this too.

The problem is: either the left or the right pedal will work (depending on how the cable is attached) but not both. So effectively I now have a single footswitch...

Is there anyone who has experience with the Korg N364, and/or knows what might be the cause of this? According to my manual and the music store the PS-2 is compatible with my board, but I can't get it to work properly...

I'd be very grateful for your help.

[Everlasting_Rain]

What do you want it to control? As far as I know, you can only assign one function to the assignable pedal... so there's no need for two (not counting the sustain pedal).

I think it may be compatible, but it'll work as a single pedal.

[ImaX]

You should have two jacks at the footswitch (you have, as I see on the photo) and two jacks for footswitches at the keyboard. Only then you have the chance to run both at the same time.

[Mental Floss]

You should have two jacks at the footswitch (you have, as I see on the photo) and two jacks for footswitches at the keyboard. Only then you have the chance to run both at the same time.

Hmm, I only have one footswitch jack at my keyboard. This would mean they're not compatible. Are you sure about this? Because, as i already said, both my manual and the music store said they're compatible... :/

It's not possible to attach a stereo/mono cable from the two jacks on the footswitch to the single jack on the keyboard?

Edit:
Not sure I made this clear, but I wanted a double switch so I could assign one to do 'Program Up' and the other to do 'Program Down', so I don't have to put the same patch in my banks several times.

[Drusillus]

It sounds to me like your double-footswitch is using a 1/4" STEREO cable to connect to your keyboard, but your keyboard only has a 1/4" MONO control pedal jack.

This could explain why one side works sometimes, and the other side works other times, depending on how you plug it in. You know how if you have a stereo cable going into a mono jack, you only get one side (either left or right) of the stereo signal? And how you can sometimes pull it "half-out" to get the other channel? Well it sounds like the pedal is transmitting Pedal 1 signals on the Left channel, and Pedal 2 on the Right channel.

Sounds to me like either you'd need a special stereo control pedal input jack, or two control pedal inputs, in order to take advantage of this pedal, and it seems the N364 has neither.

Edit: Also, I assume that you're using a stereo "Y-adapter" cable (1/4" stereo split into two 1/4' mono)... it could be that this pedal is meant to be used with two separate 1/4" mono cables, going into two separate control pedal jacks. The sales clerk might have just been confused.

This is all speculation though, it just sounds probable from what you've described.

Did you get a manual with the pedal? Any clues in there?

[ImaX]

As I can see on the picture there are two footswitches with one jack each - although they're built into the same case it's like having two seperate footswitches.

Now if you have only the possibility to connect one footswitch to your keyboard there's no normal way to connect two.

What you could check (I don't know if this would work):

- maybe you have one footswitch-jack called "sustain" and a second one calles "footswitch", so in the end you can connect two switches.

- if you can connect a CC-pedal try to put the footswtich into that jack. I a pedal there's a potentionmeter sending signals from 0-127, a footswitch is equal with sending only 0 or 127.

If one of the two ideas should work next you'd have to check out if you can program a sustain-pedal or a continuus controller for DataInc oder DataDec, so it's not that easy...

Sorry to say. If it doesn't work you can still try to blame the salesman and ask him to take it back.

[Everlasting_Rain]

I think the point (of the manual saying they're compatible) is that they actually are, because they work together (the pedal and the N364, I mean), but not as you desire it to work. The pedal assignment is made either to prog up or to prog down, but you can't have both... (I have to put the same patches repeated all across my banks)

The damper can't be assigned, so it just does sustain. So the only need for that double pedal I see is using one as a sustain, and the other as an assigned controller.

That's one of the things the N364 lacks... controllers. I have one, and I like how it sounds (or how one can make it sound), but it only has the joystick, a slider and a single assignable pedal.