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If you’ve ever sat down at your Genos or SX keyboard, pressed your usual registration buttons, and suddenly found your foot pedals behaving like they’ve got a mind of their own… well, you’re not alone!
We’ve had quite a few people get in touch about this one. You go to play, expecting your trusty pedal to do something useful (like hold a note or change a voice), and instead it does absolutely nothing — or worse, the wrong thing. It’s a proper mystery if you don’t know the trick. But luckily, the fix is easy once you know where to look.
It all comes down to what your keyboard saves when you store a registration. Think of registrations as your little snapshots: they capture how your sounds, rhythms, and effects are set up. But unless you specifically tell the keyboard to include the pedal settings in that snapshot, it won’t. Which means next time you load up that registration… it uses whatever pedal settings were last saved elsewhere.
And that’s where things get messy!
When you’re building up your 10 blue registrations on your Genos 1, Genos 2, or SX keyboard, press the Memory button to store your settings.
You’ll see a list of tick boxes pop up: voices, multipads, tempo, style… and one labelled Foot Pedals.
Make sure that little box is ticked! That tells the keyboard to save your current pedal setup (and you’ve got three pedal ports, so it matters). Whatever your pedals are doing at that moment — sustain, articulation, volume — those functions will be baked into that registration from then on.
If you’re using registrations someone else made, and the pedal setup just isn’t right for you, this little trick is gold.
From that point on, any registration you load will keep your pedal setup intact, regardless of what the registration itself says. You can unfreeze whenever you like to go back to normal behaviour.
These are simple tricks, but they make a massive difference once you know they exist. We’ve seen so many players get tripped up by this exact issue, so I hope this has helped save you a bit of frustration.
If you’ve got any other keyboard quirks you’d like us to cover, give us a shout! We love finding solutions that make your playing life easier.
Got something to trade in? Use our Part Exchange Form to tell us what you’ve got — you can even upload photos so we can give you a fair and speedy quote.
Prefer to talk it through? Give us a ring today on 01295 266788 — we’re always happy to chat.
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