Foot pedal with Mainstage

I am new to mainstage and am using it to trigger the playing of drum and bass backing tracks. I want to use a foot pedal to trigger this. Is this pedal an USB pedal? Could someone recommend a foot pedal? I don't need a lot of controls just a simple pedal. Thank you.

I wish.
There is a shortage of usb pedals.
'sposed to be some coming out soon.
One called... um, I can't remember exactly. Something french with "II" (It's either the pi symbol or roman 2, it's unclear and very hard to google) in the name.
there is the "midi solutions" route, a box that converts expression pedal info to midi. google it.
there are a bunch of non-music related usb foot controller devices that might work for you.
http://martelelectronics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=616

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Bruno Filipe wrote:
Thanks for the help but please don´t duplicate the answers. I´ve explain that to Chamie7
Noted, except that the OP clearly did not feel that your answer was helpful
Chamie7 wrote:
Sorry, no help there. Any guitar players know what I mean?
and
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rem_drv usb_midI would not have done that. This may have influenced your USB configuration in a very bad way. Maybe now some USB devices will not be working.
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