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USB Page & Media Foot Controller - $120 (Pepperell)
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The intended user is any musician wishing to control the playback of a piece of music and the display of sheet music while their hands are busy playing their instrument.
The PMC-6 is compatible with any Windows "media player" type application that supports USB Consumer Media Keys and programmable "Hotkeys". If your chosen "media player" type application responds to the "Multimedia" keys on many modern keyboards, it should be compatible.
The PMC-6 was specifically designed to take advantage of the capabilities of VLC Media Player and Microsoft Word.
Switch, Command sent, User configuration
Loop, "L", none*
Back, MEDIA_PREVIOUS, hotkey assignment**
Stop, MEDIA_STOP, hotkey assignment, optional***
Play/Pause, MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE, hotkey assignment, optional***
Page Previous, KEY_PAGE_UP, none*
Page Next, KEY_PAGE_DOWN, none*
* The Loop command requires that the "media player" application have "Windows focus" when that switch is pressed; this means that the menu bar of the application is not grayed-out. To that end, pressing Page Previous and Page Next simultaneously will change the active window.
** If the Jump Backward hotkey in your "media player" application is not assigned to the command sent by the Back switch, it will function as Previous Track. Please refer to the last section.
*** Most compatible "media player" applications will respond to the Play/Pause and Stop switches without user intervention.
The Play/Pause switch toggles between those functions.
The Back switch triggers a jump in that direction.
Stop is hopefully self-explanatory.
Loop requires that Advanced Controls under the VLC View menu is selected. Each press of the Loop switch completes part of the loop cycle; start point, end point/play, reset.
Page Previous and Page Next send those commands to the active application. If the open word processor does not have "Window focus", pressing both of these switches at the same time will allow you to change "Windows focus" to it.
The warranty on the PMC-6 is 1 year from date of purchase. Abuse or disassembly will void the warranty.
Each PMC-6 is made/recycled by me from surplus product produced by another manufacturer. It appears that there were some quality problems in production and while the units work properly, the cosmetics are not top shelf. Thus, each unit will probably have scrapes, scratches and other cosmetic imperfections. Please consider that you will be stepping on it frequently.
Feel free to contact me for more product information or with special programming requests for "media players" that require alternate commands.
The PMC-6 is 15 1/8" long by 4 3/4" deep by 2" high, weighs 3.6 pounds and ships with a 10' USB A - B cable.