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From: erkamp@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Bob Erkamp)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers,comp.music
Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.194032.28630@arcsun.arc.ab.ca>
Date: 24 Jul 90 19:40:32 GMT
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Reply-To: erkamp@arcsun.UUCP (Bob Erkamp)
Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary
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>>Has anyone used the Anatek's Pocket Pedal? 
>>If you did, what do you think about them?
>> JUN LEE  
>
>I have a broshure from Anatek that claims that thier products (at least the
>ones in this broushure, merge, pedal, filter, sequencer) require no
>batteries or power supply.  These all seem like products that would require
>active electronics.  Where do they get thier power?  I assume they have
>built in batteries, but how long do they last?  Do you throw out an $80
>pocket merge after a few months of heavy use?  Seems to me that it would have
>been better just to put a battery slot in there so these products will last.
>
>Ed Federmeyer  (ed@iitmax.iit.edu)
>-- 
Well I don't know what the pocket pedal is/does put the pocket merge get's all
it's power directly from the midi cables (I don't know the voltage used to
drive midi but obviously it's enough). There was a reveiw in Keyboard a while
back and they mentioned this.

Bob Erkamp