Yamaha FC3A Piano Style Sustain Foot Pedal with Half-Pedaling

The FC3A is a continuous / half‑damper pedal designed for digital pianos that support half‑pedaling (Yamaha, etc.). It outputs a variable resistance so the instrument can sense “how far” the pedal is pressed. Works very well with the Expressive E Osmose as it is designed to handle continuous pedals like the FC3A natively. The FC3A sends variable CC values (0-127), not binary ON/OFF like other sustain pedals such as Roland DP-2/6/10, Yamaha FC4A/FC5). Lovely pedal - well built . Things to keep in mind when choosing what might be right for you written below. The FC3A does not appear to work with my Roland Juno D6 - being fundamentally a synthesizer with high-quality piano multisamples, not a dedicated digital piano, so it lacks acoustic piano features like half-pedaling as I discovered. The Juno-D6 Hold jack expects a switch-type pedal (momentary contact closure), not a continuous half‑damper signal. It ignores or misreads analog expression meaning that the Juno-D6 cannot interpret the FC3A correctly, so you get no sustain or very erratic behaviour. What you need instead for a Juno D6 and other synthesisers that don’t support half‑pedaling is switch-type sustain pedal, for example:Roland DP-2, DP-6, DP-10 (set to switch mode) NB: DP-10 half-pedaling does NOT work with the Juno-D6 - the Juno D6 Hold jack is switch-only which is why you set the DP-10 pedal to switch.. Yamaha switch-type sustain pedals. FC4A or FC5