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Thanks guys. Do either of you use Windows 7? I bought a cheap set of pedals that apparently don't work well with 7 and I'd prefer not to repeat that mistake.



Trying to wrap my thoughts around why ANY generic USB device would not work with anything USB ready if you have any OS newer than Windows 98SE when USB started. It's just a human interface device and run off a generic driver. I mean there are not "USB Keyboard for Win7 Only" keyboards out there. In a pinch I needed to plug in SOME USB keyboard into my computer while I set up the Bluetooth and the one I plugged in I had to wipe cobwebs from to use it, like literally over 10 years old, and Win7 detected and was ready in under 5 seconds. Win7 doesn't even know it's a keyboard. In the hardware list it says HID, and it can't tell mouse from keyboard, just a Human Interface Device.

So I am just confused why the pedals, which Win7 should see as a HID, would have an issue. Can you expand on what kind of issues you found?

For me I just needed a foot control to press the space bar as a way to start and stop a teleprompter program for scrolling lyrics, so my situation is different. All I did was took a 1 inch strip of wood, drilled 2 holes into the space bar, and two into the wood that line up with the ones in the space bar, and used screws to attach the wood to the space bar. Now that wood stands up one inch and I can tap it with my foot any time I need to pause the scrolling.

The sad part of the story is that I even needed to do this to remember lyrics I WROTE, but that is another post about aging....