Silly question and might not help, but did you look at reversing the
polarity of the sustain pedal in the Z1?

Good Luck!

--- In korgz1@yahoogroups.com, "luckyhomeboy65" <aran.shawcross@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm new to the group; I apologise for pitching straight in with a
> problem but I'm hoping someone will be able to help. I'm using
the Z1
> with an Akai MPC4000 that I've just got. when I play in a
bassline
> (or whatever) from the Z1, it sounds fine as I'm playing it.
However,
> when I play back the sequence, the Z1 acts as if the sustain pedal
has
> been depressed i.e. all the notes keep ringing into each other
> forever. I am using it with other keyboards and they're fine with
the
> Akai. I repatched the gear so that the 'Z1 sequence' is feeding a
> different keyboard and it sounds exactly as I played it. I've
also
> fed 'other keyboard' sequences into the Z1 and I get the same
issue -
> all the notes ring as if the sustain pedal was down.
> I'm concluding from this that the problem is to do with the Z1 and
not
> the sequencer but I can't seem to set the Z1 in such a way that
this
> doesn't happen. Has anybody come across this problem? Any
> suggestions welcome.
> Thanks
>
> Aran
>