Roland Product Info:

[petemoore]

I have a SDE-1000 Digital Delay, Rack Mount.
 Works great. I need user info. I would like to build/get a modulation control [there's a 1/4'' jack with the word 'modulation foot control' over it.
 There are also more jacks on the back that say 'Play Mode"  .."Hold [on/off]",  and:  "Delay [on/off]".
  I tried the Roland site for a while, Registered, but found nothing in the: search for item, products, support...looked all over the site for this Roland SDE-1000 item and nothing fit, found many "this page cannot be displayed's"
 Probably a common thing used for modulation control.
 Correct me if I'm wrong please: the bypass controls are just two connections, one is ground, when the other is shorted it goes to the 'other' mode [on/off]...basically you short the two 'wires' together to illicit a response in the effect switching?
 Any info I could use would be helpful, Thank You!

[petemoore]

So I'm bumping it. I'm trying to find a brain to pick...this thing would be cooler with the foot controls.
 Gets some PDCool echoes IMO
  Signed the Analogster

[J. Luja]

yeah if it's like most roland stuff, the footswitch shorts the tip to sleeve, it could be normally open or normally closed, or have an option to select which.
the foot control is likely a 10k pot conected to a stereo cable, wiper connected to ring or tip (can't remember) and pans between the other two connections.

-Jeremy

[petemoore]

So it's a bit trickier than cabling/wiring a pot as a V/R [two connections].
 Not knowing how valuable modulation control is, I wanted to try and see what it does that I could use.
 The tip/sleeve "shorting switch' I think I can figure out, N/P.

[petemoore]

I tried the links they sent me via auto E-mail I suspect.
 They don't work
 Went to the site tho via one of them, site is worse than useless, shutting itself down with countless user error windows that popup in less than a second, undulating and propogating...at least it doesn't shut the computer completely off.
 I would think they'd want a user friendly site for people, one that would at least make browsing through brochures possible without registering.
 In light of recent events I think I'll forgo future attempts to get anytning out of Roland online. Maybe their site got hacked, who knows...

[Ansil]

not to sound rude but stick a quarter inch jack in the back and see what it does.  touch the two ends together and see if it changes something.. if not try a stereo cord.  before i had a meter some years ago i had to build something similar for the roland sde3000
as per my notes the delay on and off was simply shorting the positive tip to ground on the 1/4" jack he has something similar to the modulation couldnt' read what i wrote but it was a stereo wire i used and i think its a 100k dual ganged pot in an old organ volume pedal i had.
i can't make out the rest of this but i know he had like a loop mode and the octave mode so you couldmake the time double or halve itself.  this was all footswitchable too.

[petemoore]

Perhaps a stereo cable and a Couple V/R's or resistors, and a little time trying it this way then that would reveal the formula for the modulation pedal.