Poorly designed damper / sustain pedal - need midi cc filter or other fix

you could use midiox to convert values of less than 10 to 0

... also you could add an Insert Piz Here MIDI plugin as a filter in REAPER Here is an example usage to convert CC 1 below the threshold of 12 to zeros... I have used midiConverter3 in this example. For live playing and recording you'd want to add that as an input FX.

Thanks guys. 4x4uk, I thought MIDI-OX was just for analyzing/troubleshooting, I'll have to look into it more. hamish, that plugin suite is awesome, thank you! It looks like this will be perfect. I just have to test it for live playing, but yeah maybe the problem is solved. Still wish they didn't make this pedal with such a ridiculous design. I was shocked what I found when I took it apart - a metal coil with two prongs sticking out to create a spring, wrapped around a small plastic piece that was controlling whatever pot was soldered to the other side of the board. With MIDI-OX open the only way i could get a 00 value was by either compressing it and then suddenly releasing so it snapped back into place, or by removing the spring from it's resting spot. Since it's a three in one pedal, and therefore has three of these things, I know it's a design flaw and not just a "bad/broken one". Will report back later when the problem is confirmed to be solved.

midiox can do much more than just analyze. It can transpose midi notes filter out midi messages change midi message channels, convert midi messages and a whole lot more

jesusonic can also easily solve your problem. Just ask over at the JS/Reascript forum.