KAE Systems Unveils the MIDI Ant Foot Controller
KAE Systems has released the MIDI Ant, a compact MIDI foot controller designed for versatility. The pedal can activate any program or patch in any existing MIDI device in a chain of up to nine devices.
Sporting a bright 3-digit LED display, it offers a fully customizable view of the program/patch number and can generate precise MIDI Clock between 20 and 320 BPM. Other features include an auto-calibration for expression pedals, an advanced MIDI Thru and message converter, and phantom power.
Check out this video detailing the Ant’s features:
The MIDI Ant is available now for approximately $129.99.
KAE Systems MIDI Ant Foot Controller Features:
| Can activate any program/patch in a chain of up to 9 MIDI devices |
| Gives the freedom to arrange Your favorite programs/patches in a sequential list without any limitation of the banks they live in |
| Offers a fully customizable view of the program/patch number |
| Can generate highly precise MIDI Clock between 20 and 320 ??? with 1 ??? increments |
| 2 high-quality Neutrik ¼” jacks for external expression pedals, freely assignable to ‘Control change’, ‘Pitch bend’ messages or tempo control |
| An ‘auto-calibration’ for the expression pedals: eliminates the dependency from the extreme positions of the internal potentiometers |
| Advanced MIDI Thru and powerful message converter |
| Soft-action (click-less) momentary footswitches. Can be swapped by software. |
| Ultra-bright 3-digit red LED display |
| Intelligent switching 2.5mm DC power jack with center negative pin, permitting either power supply or phantom power at a time. |
| Phantom-powered from spare pins on the MIDI Out socket |
| Reverse polarity protection |
| Sturdy metal case |
| Easily configurable by a free Microsoft Windows application |
| Available SysEx export of both configuration and firmware for 3-rd party loaders running on other OS. |
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