Mojopedals: keys action regulation and maintenance.

The 13 keys of Mojopedals are made of metal as well as the mainframe of the instrument and metal is well known to suffer from temperature change: in detail, iron expands when is hot and it tightens when is cold. So, expect to do this regulation typically passing from winter to summer and from summer to winter. Consequentially this may cause small issues with the action and the regulation of the Mojopedals contact system. This is made with the so-called "bubble contact technology" and, what is pressing those contacts on Mojopedals is a complex leverage system partially made of plastic and directly screws on the keys. Unlike keyboards, where there's no regulation of the action that can be freely modified by user, on Mojopedals this can be done. This adjustment has to be considered a normal maintenance operation, not a defect.

Together with your pedalboard, you received a small black plastic key: that key is used for turn a specific squared screw located on top of every key.

You have to remove the TOP panel of Mojopedals (4 screws on the bottom of the instrument), lift the TOP (pay attention there's a flat cable going to the pedals) to expose all the 13 screws. From now on it's a matter of trying what is best for you... high action, low or fast action or just a fine adjustment to make sure that every pedal is acting in the same way. Some users also performs custom adjustments where they would like to have black keys acting different from white (brown) keys. The same method is also used in case you have a dead key, mechanical latency, extremely low action, intermittent triggering or different force to activate the sound.

When you perform the adjustment, please keep in mind that the pedalboard is also velocity sensitive: this means that, an adjustment can be perfect when velocity is not active (only one bubble contact works) but can be wrong in case of the velocity is on. You can also reach a case when a specific key works when velocity is non active but does not work when you activate the velocity, that's because the adjustment you made is able to close and open one contact (the first one) but is unable to fully close and open the second one.

When the instrument is new or, also in this case due to temperature change, you can find that the pedals can have different actions, some notes are slower then other when they bounce back or with a bigger resistance when pressed. Also this should be considered normal and not a defect... sometimes they just need additional time to integrate with the overall structure... sometime you just need to grab the "slow" keys with your hand and wiggle them firmly left and right to "wake" them up.