I’m intrigued by the half-damper feature of the Motif XS8. I never used feature before on acoustic pianos, so this is a completely new thing for me. Question: I have a Roland DP-10 pedal that switches between Continuous (for half-damper effects) and Switched modes.

When set to Switched mode, the pedal works like a straight on/off sustain.

When set to Continuous mode, the pedal doesn’t work at all.

I can’t see how the signal routing from a Roland pedal would be that much different than the Yamaha FC3. Plus, because the feature already exists in the board, it must be an easy fix to update the firmware to understand and process Roland pedal data to convert the signal to the XS’s methods.

My main reasons for not buying the FC3:

1) I didn’t know that half-damping was an option
2) I prefer an L-connector rather than straight for my pedals
3) I have always used Roland piano style pedals

Does anyone have any thoughts?

sorry, no idea

but you might want to try posting this in the XS forum… your chances of getting a response there might be better

Whoops. I just followed a rabbit trail of pedal discussions. Sorry for the mis-post!