Pre-sales question- using with a VST Wah

[MEFlyingV]

Hello.

I need to use a USB Expression pedal with Cubase. Cubase has a VST Plugin called VST AMP RACK and one of the effects is a wah pedal. It would be great if I could actually control the wah using my foot. So I assume using a USB Expression pedal would do the trick. But it appears no such pedal exists. So I was thinking some sort of normal expression pedal used with your product might work. Do you know for sure if this would control the wah in VST AMPRACK?

I saw someone has posted about a similar topic (a VST Wah in Ableton) so I am hoping this will work.

Thanks!

[vanceg]

From my experience it should work fine. However, I haven't actually tried it with this plugin. I do know that the plugin can be MIDI controlled and there isn't any real reason the AudioFront hardware shouldn't work.

I'm planning on modifying an actual wah pedal so that it has a normal Volume Pedal output on it, and a separate output for the Wah's switch. I'll hook up the volume output into one input of a Quattro, and the Switch output to another input of the Quattro, and then map the switch to the Wah Plugin's on/off and the Volume to the Wah's pedal/filter. This way I should end up with an interface that is very much like using an actual wah pedal...complete with on/off! I see no reason that shouldn't work.

Vanceg

[vanceg]

My plan worked well: I took out the guts from an old Wah pedal and replaced both jacks (input and output), with TRS jacks. I replaced the pot in the wah pedal with a standard 50K linear pot and wired it to the Output jack, just the way a standard volume pedal would be. THen I wired the switch to the Input jack using the wiring diagram for a switch running into the MIDI Expression. I plugged in the "input" from the wah pedal (which is now the switch of the Wah pedal) into one input of the MIDI Expression Quattro and plugged the "output" from the wah pedal (now the wah pedal acting like a volume pedal) int the MIDI Expression. I then mapped the On/Off switch of the wah plugin to be controlled by MIDI CC 1 and the wah position to MIDI CC 7, and programmed the MIDI Expression to send those correct messages.
Now I've got a Wah plugin which turns on/off when I press the Wah switch at the "toe" position of the wah's travel, and I control the wah with the pedal itself. Works like a charm.

Here's another quick thought: If you don't have a wah pedal you want to modify, you can obviously just control the wah positon using any footpedal plugged into the MIDI Expression. But, you don't then have a way to turn the Wah Plugin on and off... you just have a way to control the wah position.