Cool! Thanks so much. I'll save this message and take it to a repair
tech here in Town if I find one. I unfortunately don't solder as I'm
legally blind, and tried once, burning my nose in the process lol!

On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:45 PM, gmeredith1 wrote:

> You can make a pedal really easily and hook it up to the electribe,
> if you are handy with a soldering iron. You will need to open up your
> electribe though. Just take the back off it, unscrew the main circuit
> board and remove it (you'll have to take the knobs off to do it).
> You will then see the circuit board that has all the switches,
> buttons and knobs soldered to it.
>
> Just locate where the play/stop/record buttons solder to the board,
> and solder wires to these points. Mount a small mini-DIN 5-pin socket
> (the ones in the back of a computer for the mouse or keyboard) in the
> back of the electribe, and solder the wires to the socket terminals.
> Put your machine back together.
>
> Now all you do is get a flat plastic, metal or wooden box, and mount
> 3 "momentary" pushbutton switches in it, a reasonable distance apart
> from each other, so you can get to them with your foot. Solder the
> wires of a 2 metre 5-wire multicore cable to the switch terminals. On
> the other end of the cable, solder the wires to a mini-DIN plug (the
> same ones on the end of a mouse or keyboard cable) into their
> corresponding places to connect to the right buttons on the
> electribe.
>
> That's it. It's a lot easier than it sounds. If you have a sampling
> ES electribe you can use the footswitch record button to sample while
> on the fly without using your hands - cool in live gigs!
>
> Cheers, Graham
>
>
> --- In korgelectribes@yahoogroups.com, Pete Nalda <lpnalda@...> wrote:
>>
>> Sure wished electribes had a stop/start pedal option, so any
>> alternative? TIA.
>>
>> Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates)
>> Pete Nalda
>> http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda
>>
>
>

Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates)
Pete Nalda
http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda