Wireless sustain pedal?

[Charley B]

Here's a ridiculously kludgy method if you're using a DAW.

 

Cover the motion sensor of a wireless mouse with a piece of tape. Duct tape the mouse to the floor with the buttons toward you. Open the window in your DAW that lets you play notes from your computer keyboard. Move the cursor over the sustain button on that window using keyboard arrows or finger pad (since your mouse doesn't move the cursor now). Your mouse button is now a wireless sustain pedal! In Mixcraft, it sustains all connected controllers. Don't know about others.

 

I recommend operating it using your toe without shoes to avoid crushing this delicate technological wonder. Maybe somebody more tech savvy could retrofit a sustain pedal with mouse guts and get the sustain message to the DAW in a more robust way.

[miden]

Boss EV-1-WL  - https://www.boss.info/global/products/ev-1-wl/   which has the jack on the side to accommodate a separate footswtich. I have used a sustain pedal with this device and can confirm it works as expected. Bluetooth, USB midi or standard MIDI

 

And for just Expression https://beatbars.com/en/midi-expression-pedal.html

 

Not sure if either would help out the OP, but could be useful

[AnotherScott]

1 hour ago, miden said:

Boss EV-1-WL  - https://www.boss.info/global/products/ev-1-wl/   which has the jack on the side to accommodate a separate footswtich. I have used a sustain pedal with this device and can confirm it works as expected. Bluetooth, USB midi or standard MIDI

Cool! It turns out they also have the reverse... instead of wireless expression you can add a footswitch to, they also have wireless footswitch (actually set of 3) that you can add expression to, and it's a bit less expensive besides...

 

https://www.boss.info/us/products/fs-1-wl/

 

Hopefully, it, too, works as expected!

[Stokely]

On 3/25/2019 at 3:47 PM, Reezekeys said:

And I use extension cables from Amazon for the same purpose. 1/4 stereo for the expression pedal and mono for the sustain. Two strips of gaff tape and I can run them flat under my controller to the Apex stand I usually get. From there they hide on the side facing me, held by the pita clips the Apex uses.

 

I think there are some good applications of wireless pedals - sustain not being one of them. However, if anyone here actually makes it happen and is happy, I have no problem being proven wrong - its happened before!

I use two FC5s and an Omega stand at gigs, and the cables are too short to go over to and down the legs (where I have cable clamps).  I hate them going straight down.   I didn't even consider extensions, I will now!

[Charley B]

Ok, I refined my wireless mouse idea so that it's pretty good for use with a DAW. Instead of a wireless mouse, I sacrificed a Logitec wireless keyboard.

 

With the DAW "musical typing" window open, the shift key activates sustain. I figured out which contacts on the little keyboard circuit board had to be connected to get it to transmit "shift" and connected those to the contacts of an old sustain pedal. I stuffed the board into the pedal, removed the cable and closed it up. I saved a DAW template that includes an open musical typing window, so now when I fire up the DAW the wireless pedal just works. As a bonus I can capitalize words by pressing the pedal LIKE THIS 😆