The solution ? ?Email is drumlime @ yahoo.com. I discovered that i had the piano powered up when I initially plugged in the cord for the pedals. Especially if you are going LIVE! The polarity should switch. When we got it back, she said the sustain pedal was messed up and working in reverse. Thank you, Thank you. The sustain pedal operation can become reversed if the pedal is pressed down while the power is being turned ON or if the pedal … Worked for me! Plug all pedals in first than power up. I didn't know to look for a switch on my foot pedal. Dismantled it and cleaned the contact traces with alcohol wipes and reassembled. Turn the power on. The unplugging pedal, turning the whole lot off, plugging pedal back in and then turning on worked for me. I also had this problem when I first set up the piano. It does the opposite that I am used too. Still nothing. The manual says, if it's not sustaining when Yamaha pedal is depressed, turn off keyboard Re-Insert Sustain Pedal 1/4" plug THEN turn keyboard on without depressing pedal to resolved reverse sustain pedal issue. There is a switch on the sustain pedal. If a sustain pedal plugged into a Yamaha keyboard is producing the opposite effect - sustaining when the pedal is not depressed, and not sustaining when it is depressed - it's usually because (a) the pedal was plugged in while the keyboard was turned on, or (b) the pedal was depressed while the unit was powering on. Blessings to you. Maybe this will help someone else. I pluged the sustain pedal after I powered it up. worked like a charm the first time by unplugging it all and putting in the sustain pedal first. Verified Purchase. Thanks! Turn off the piano and UNPLUG, wait a few seconds than turn on. I've done everything. (plug before, ofcourse :-) ). It is the state of the switch contacts inside the pedal when the pedal is in the up and resting position -- N/O for Normally Open, and N/C for Normally Closed . Just got a new Yamaha too and had a similar problem for a good 20 minutes. It reversed the polarity on my pedal. Thanks. Keine Preisentwicklungsdaten von Anbietern aus Österreich vorhanden. I read the comments on this page and they led me back to my KORG manual because the plug out-in method had no effect. Below is a procedure that may solve the problem. I bought a Yamaha sustain pedal for my human who's current pedal gave out, only to find that WORKS BACKWARDS! Back to the List. Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr. We have tried this several times and it is not working for us either. Sustain reverse pedal by: Anonymous I just bought the modx7 with all the gear and had issues with the sustain pedal. All I did was turn the piano off, unplugged the pedal cord, waited a few minutes, plugged the pedal cord back in again, then powered up the piano. I just bought the modx7 with all the gear and had issues with the sustain pedal. I have the cheaper pedal. Problem solved! Join in and write your own page! I must have looked at 30 different blogs on sustain pedal reverse polarity with no answers. save hide report. Worked like charm...try that if nothing else works. *DO NOT step on the sustain pedal while turning the instrument on. Is there something i have to do to assisng the pedal to sustain? By the way, we're using a Roland pedal. Turning on and off does not always fix the problem. I have a PC-4 pedal which i beleive is complatible. Different manufacturers make different sustain pedals and some have positive polarity and others have negative. Some sustain pedals have a reverse polarity switch on them. I just got my keyboard petal on christmas and it was working just fine but the next day the notes are not long anymore, its like it stopped working, i already tried taking out the plug and waiting a bit but its still not working, how can something i just have and its brand new just stop its notes now? That was a fast solution to why the sustain didn't work in the beginning. I have the Yamaha DGX-530 and the power off, unplug, plug back in, power back on trick did work. On setup, pedal worked in reverse, as noted in below comments.