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Homemade Footswitch for Live Frees up your Hands for $10

We’ve seen some interesting footswitches for Live, but this one is probably the cheapest and most effective. For under $10, Ableton Forum member AlexMC made a footswitch out of some hardwood and the following materials:

- sheet of 6mm MDF
- 15mm square-section stripwood
- momentary switches (I used 21, but you could make a very functional device with 8-12)
- fine gauge wire (solid core is easier to work with)
- old USB keyboard
- salvaged ribbon cable (I used an old PC IDE cable)
- terminal block
- LED mount grommit
- glue, screws and nails/tacks
- 12mm washers

He used the old USB keyboard for its controller and USB interface. We’d like some more interesting DIY gear for Live, like an APC 40 clone…

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