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does anyone have any advice on _EXTREMELY CHEAP_ MIDI foot controllers? under $100 but actually works? doesn't need to have a million features, just needs to be able to trigger/send MIDI to my 404A. my use case is that one group i play in uses the 404A for drum machine and occasional samples, and it would be really handy to be able to trigger those with my foot instead of reaching over for a tiny pad. also, i'm often doing weird stuff on multiple instruments, drums, etc, and being able to start and stop a sampler pad would be very useful and open up some possibilities, i think.

has anyone here done something like that, and do you have any recommendations or other ways to go about it?

damn, u/65TwinReverbRI has me covered in their answer here
https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/uif6f0/foot_midi_controller_for_triggering_sampler_pads/

Guitar Center took in a used Melbourne Nina - the magnetic/motorized knobs are a gimmick but it's a great gimmick. Watching them turn when you move the morph knob is cool, always know where knob settings are with presets. Fine detail (trying to dial in 100 cents of fine tuning or something) was tough but I assume there's a shift modifier I didn't know about to make that easier.